From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 42506 invoked by alias); 27 Aug 2015 15:05:12 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 42488 invoked by uid 89); 27 Aug 2015 15:05:12 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: usevmg21.ericsson.net Received: from usevmg21.ericsson.net (HELO usevmg21.ericsson.net) (198.24.6.65) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:04:52 +0000 Received: from EUSAAHC008.ericsson.se (Unknown_Domain [147.117.188.96]) by usevmg21.ericsson.net (Symantec Mail Security) with SMTP id 05.E9.26730.D2DBED55; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 09:33:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [142.133.180.176] (147.117.188.8) by smtp-am.internal.ericsson.com (147.117.188.98) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.210.2; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 11:04:49 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document non-8-bits-addressable support in NEWS To: References: <1440620235-24006-1-git-send-email-simon.marchi@ericsson.com> <83h9nl5ud6.fsf@gnu.org> <55DF11C2.6020303@ericsson.com> <0380352E-1706-4A29-BE38-D888F6B969E6@dell.com> <55DF1E2A.2060606@ericsson.com> From: Simon Marchi Message-ID: <55DF2712.5060503@ericsson.com> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:05:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <55DF1E2A.2060606@ericsson.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-08/txt/msg00792.txt.bz2 On 15-08-27 10:26 AM, Simon Marchi wrote: > On 15-08-27 10:09 AM, Paul_Koning@Dell.com wrote: >> Would it make sense to say what it can handle? Multiples of 8? Powers of 2? Any number? >> >> "Any number" (like 27, or 60) is probably found only in historic machines, but I remember DSPs with 24 bit memory. >> >> paul > > It's multiples of 8. It would be good to add this precision I think. > > What about adding: "Supported addressable sizes are multiples of 8 bytes." ? Err, it should be "Supported addressable sizes are multiples of 8 bits.", not bytes.