From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9914 invoked by alias); 27 Aug 2015 15:39:56 -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 9825 invoked by uid 89); 27 Aug 2015 15:39:55 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mtaout28.012.net.il Received: from mtaout28.012.net.il (HELO mtaout28.012.net.il) (80.179.55.184) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:39:46 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout28.012.net.il by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NTQ00K00ZDSUH00@mtaout28.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 18:39:36 +0300 (IDT) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NTQ00DIKZI07N70@mtaout28.012.net.il>; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 18:39:36 +0300 (IDT) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:39:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document non-8-bits-addressable support in NEWS In-reply-to: <55DF2712.5060503@ericsson.com> To: Simon Marchi Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: <837fog68qm.fsf@gnu.org> 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> <55DF2712.5060503@ericsson.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-08/txt/msg00795.txt.bz2 > From: Simon Marchi > 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.