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Re: PATCH: Remove SLOW_BYTE_ACCESS from get_best_mode
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, H. J. Lu wrote:
> +@defmac WORD_ACCESS_BITFIELD
> +Define this macro as a C expression which is nonzero if accessing a
> +word memory is no slower than accessing less than a word of memory
Maybe the typo caused it, but the "less than" also didn't sound
right with me. I'll suggest changing that line to (accessing a):
"word of memory is no slower than than accessing a smaller unit".
> +(i.e.@: a @code{char} or a @code{short}).
C-types aren't size units.
Better say "a byte or a 16-bit word".
brgds, H-P