From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Support reading/writing memory on architectures with non 8-bits bytes
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 18:16:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83twwnsvaz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55281004.8040105@ericsson.com>
> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:01:40 -0400
> From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
> CC: <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
>
> > We could use the terminology that is already in use: "half-words" for
> > 16 bits and "words" for 32 bits. Would that be OK?
>
> When you know what is the size of the data unit you are referring to that's fine. But
> we need another word or expression for when we don't know it.
"Addressable memory unit" sounds good to me, provided that we explain
somewhere what that means.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-10 18:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-08 19:56 Simon Marchi
2015-04-08 19:56 ` [PATCH 2/7] Cleanup some docs about memory write Simon Marchi
2015-04-08 19:56 ` [PATCH 4/7] gdbarch: add memory_byte_size method Simon Marchi
2015-04-08 19:56 ` [PATCH 6/7] remote: Consider byte size when reading/writing memory Simon Marchi
2015-04-08 19:56 ` [PATCH 1/7] Various cleanups in target read/write code Simon Marchi
2015-04-08 19:56 ` [PATCH 7/7] MI: Consider byte size when reading/writing memory Simon Marchi
2015-04-08 19:56 ` [PATCH 3/7] Clarify doc about memory read/write and non-8-bits bytes Simon Marchi
2015-04-09 7:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-08 19:56 ` [PATCH 5/7] target: consider byte size when reading/writing memory Simon Marchi
2015-04-09 8:20 ` [PATCH 0/7] Support reading/writing memory on architectures with non 8-bits bytes Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-09 15:39 ` Simon Marchi
2015-04-09 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-09 21:00 ` Simon Marchi
2015-04-10 8:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-10 16:01 ` Simon Marchi
2015-04-10 16:35 ` Pedro Alves
2015-04-10 16:39 ` Paul_Koning
2015-04-10 17:34 ` Simon Marchi
2015-04-10 17:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-10 18:01 ` Simon Marchi
2015-04-10 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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