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

Paul_Koning
2015-08-27T15:13:11Z

> On Aug 27, 2015, at 11:04 AM, Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Sounds good. So I guess I won't be doing a cdc6600-gdb target handler. :-)

paul