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Re: [PATCH 0/7] Support reading/writing memory on architectures with non 8-bits bytes
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at ericsson dot com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 17:35:34 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Support reading/writing memory on architectures with non 8-bits bytes
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On 04/10/2015 05:01 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
> The term we are looking for is one for a single memory unit, regardless of its size.
That suggests "addressable memory unit".
Looks like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_%28computer_architecture%29 calls
it "Unit of address resolution".
Thanks,
Pedro Alves