From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document non-8-bits-addressable support in NEWS
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:39:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837fog68qm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55DF2712.5060503@ericsson.com>
> From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 11:04:50 -0400
>
> 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.
I suggest to leave a single sentence reworded thusly:
* Support for reading/writing memory and extracting values on architectures
whose memory is addressable in units of any integral multiple of 8 bits.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-27 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-26 20:17 Simon Marchi
2015-08-27 2:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-27 13:34 ` Simon Marchi
2015-08-27 14:11 ` Paul_Koning
2015-08-27 14:26 ` Simon Marchi
2015-08-27 15:05 ` Simon Marchi
2015-08-27 15:13 ` Paul_Koning
2015-08-27 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-08-28 19:37 ` Simon Marchi
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