(BFD): Non-byte addressing possible?

[Di Carlo Federico <dicarlo at apegate dot roma1 dot infn dot it>]

Hi there!

We are trying to port all binutils to our parallel-architecture machine.

This architecture demands non per-byte addressing.
In fact we have to provide address via a 32 bit bus referring 16 byte (a
word, in this machine) with an address.

For example if address 0x8000 is address 0x4000 for memory controller
then address 0x8001 is address 0x4010 . So subseguent addresses refers
to 128 different bits in memory.

As far as we discovered it's not possible to force binutils (just BFD
ELF support, we guess, due to relocs) to support this feature, so we
think we'll have to do very strange magic translation at reloc/link
time.

Are there any features we didn't see or any back-end already using such
an addressing we could study?

Thanks!

Federico Di Carlo