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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.


      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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