Re: [PATCH] Document non-8-bits-addressable support in NEWS

Simon Marchi
2015-08-27T15:05:12Z

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.