[PATCH] Document non-8-bits-addressable support in NEWS

Paul_Koning@Dell.com Paul_Koning@Dell.com
Thu Aug 27 15:13:00 GMT 2015


> On Aug 27, 2015, at 11:04 AM, Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com> wrote:
> 
> On 15-08-27 10:26 AM, Simon Marchi wrote:
>> On 15-08-27 10:09 AM, Paul_Koning@Dell.com wrote:
>>> 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
>> 
>> It's multiples of 8.  It would be good to add this precision I think.
>> 
>> What about adding: "Supported addressable sizes are multiples of 8 bytes." ?
> 
> Err, it should be "Supported addressable sizes are multiples of 8 bits.", not bytes.

Sounds good.  So I guess I won't be doing a cdc6600-gdb target handler.  :-)

	paul



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