From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] Clarify doc about memory read/write and non-8-bits addressable memory unit sizes
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 06:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ioasqf03.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <557B40D5.1050204@ericsson.com>
> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 16:28:05 -0400
> From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
> CC: <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
>
> On 15-04-16 10:48 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > This patch is fine with me, thanks.
>
> Hi Eli,
>
> I added some bits in the Remote Protocol section following the discussion
> with Pedro, could you review them?
Below.
> +@anchor{addressable memory unit}
> +@cindex addressable memory unit
> +Most targets have an addressable memory unit size of 8 bits. This means
> +that to each memory address are associated 8 bits of data. Some
> +targets, however, have other addressable memory unit sizes.
> +Within @value{GDBN} and this document, the term
> +@dfn{addressable memory unit} (or @dfn{memory unit} for short) is used
> +when explicitely referring to a chunk of data of that size. The word
^^^^^^^^^^^
"explicitly"
> +Read @var{length} addressable memory units starting at address @var{addr}
> +(@pxref{addressable memory unit}). Note that @var{addr} may not be aligned to
> +any particular boundary. ^^
Two spaces between sentences, please.
> +Write @var{length} addressable memory units starting at address @var{addr}
> +(@pxref{addressable memory unit}). The data is given by @var{XX@dots{}}; each
^^
Likewise.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-13 6:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-15 19:47 [PATCH v2 0/7] Support reading/writing memory on architectures with non 8-bits addressable memory Simon Marchi
2015-04-15 19:47 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] Clarify doc about memory read/write and non-8-bits addressable memory unit sizes Simon Marchi
2015-04-16 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-12 20:28 ` Simon Marchi
2015-06-13 6:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-06-15 17:40 ` Simon Marchi
2015-06-15 18:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-15 19:38 ` Simon Marchi
2015-04-15 19:47 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] Various cleanups in target read/write code Simon Marchi
2015-05-21 17:45 ` Pedro Alves
2015-06-12 17:09 ` Simon Marchi
2015-04-15 19:47 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] target: consider addressable unit size when reading/writing memory Simon Marchi
2015-05-21 17:46 ` Pedro Alves
2015-06-12 21:07 ` Simon Marchi
2015-04-15 19:48 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] MI: " Simon Marchi
2015-05-21 17:52 ` Pedro Alves
2015-06-15 19:51 ` Simon Marchi
2015-04-15 19:48 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] gdbarch: add addressable_memory_unit_size method Simon Marchi
2015-05-21 17:46 ` Pedro Alves
2015-06-12 20:54 ` Simon Marchi
2015-04-15 19:48 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] Cleanup some docs about memory write Simon Marchi
2015-05-21 17:45 ` Pedro Alves
2015-06-12 19:17 ` Simon Marchi
2015-06-15 9:57 ` Pedro Alves
2015-06-15 17:36 ` Simon Marchi
2015-04-15 19:48 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] remote: consider addressable unit size when reading/writing memory Simon Marchi
2015-05-21 17:48 ` Pedro Alves
2015-06-15 19:28 ` Simon Marchi
2015-06-17 11:55 ` Pedro Alves
2015-06-18 17:14 ` Simon Marchi
2015-05-21 17:44 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] Support reading/writing memory on architectures with non 8-bits addressable memory Pedro Alves
2015-06-11 21:06 ` Simon Marchi
2015-06-11 21:10 ` Simon Marchi
2015-06-12 12:00 ` Pedro Alves
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