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Re: [PATCH] Document non-8-bits-addressable support in NEWS
- From: <Paul_Koning at Dell dot com>
- To: <simon dot marchi at ericsson dot com>
- Cc: <eliz at gnu dot org>, <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:09:55 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document non-8-bits-addressable support in NEWS
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> On Aug 27, 2015, at 9:33 AM, Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com> wrote:
>
> On 15-08-26 10:37 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> I think you should drop the second sentence, as it doesn't add any
>> useful information and is slightly inaccurate. I think everyone will
>> understand what non-8-bits-addressable means.
>
> Right, thanks. Pushed with second sentence removed.
>
>
> From fd2ae5d6a3a5c4007be45f9b2f325955ac316f36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 09:30:00 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] Document non-8-bits addressable memory support in NEWS
>
> I think it would be a good idea to document that gdb now has (basic)
> support to read/write memory on architectures with non-8-bits memory.
> Hopefully somebody will see it and say "Hey! We can now (more easily)
> port GDB to our strange DSP that has 32-bits-addressable memory!" and do
> it.
Would it make sense to say what it can handle? Multiples of 8? Powers of 2? Any number?
"Any number" (like 27, or 60) is probably found only in historic machines, but I remember DSPs with 24 bit memory.
paul