Re: RFR: 8308276: Change layout API to work with bytes, not bits [v4]

2023-05-22 Thread Per Minborg
On Mon, 22 May 2023 10:27:04 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote: >> As explained in [1], memory layouts and memory segments describe sizes using >> different units. Memory layouts use bits, whereas memory segments use bytes. >> This is historical: memory layouts were designed after the Minimal LDL

Re: RFR: 8308276: Change layout API to work with bytes, not bits [v4]

2023-05-22 Thread Maurizio Cimadamore
> As explained in [1], memory layouts and memory segments describe sizes using > different units. Memory layouts use bits, whereas memory segments use bytes. > This is historical: memory layouts were designed after the Minimal LDL [2], > which allowed layout strings to be used to describe both m