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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 18:16:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Support reading/writing memory on architectures with non 8-bits bytes
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> 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.