From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4274 invoked by alias); 20 Jun 2007 18:02:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 4195 invoked by uid 48); 20 Jun 2007 18:02:24 -0000 Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:02:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20070620180224.4194.qmail@sourceware.org> From: "cagney at redhat dot com" To: frysk-bugzilla@sourceware.org In-Reply-To: <20070620175007.4674.cagney@redhat.com> References: <20070620175007.4674.cagney@redhat.com> Reply-To: sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug general/4674] Memory Window: Replace "number of bits" with "Word Size" aka "increment" X-Bugzilla-Reason: AssignedTo Mailing-List: contact frysk-bugzilla-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: frysk-bugzilla-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-q2/txt/msg00366.txt.bz2 List-Id: ------- Additional Comments From cagney at redhat dot com 2007-06-20 18:02 ------- The word size doesn't affect fixed sized displays, for instance: With the bytes | 8-bit 0x00000000 | 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 and word size set to 32-bits would give columns: 16-bit BE: 0102 0304 16-bit LE: 0201 0403 32-bit BE: 01020304 32-bit LE: 04030201 64-bit BE: 0102030405060708 or 0102030400000000 64-bit LE: 0807060504030201 or 0000000004030201 Word x86: 0x04030201 Word ppc: 0x01020304 and word size set to 64-bits would give columns: 16-bit BE: 0102 0304 0506 0708 16-bit LE: 0201 0403 0605 0807 32-bit BE: 01020304 05060708 32-bit LE: 04030201 08070605 64-bit BE: 0102030405060708 64-bit LE: 0807060504030201 Word x86: 0x0807060504030201 Word ppc: 0x0102030405060708 -- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4674 ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.