Does it matter if bones are whole when being used for stock?

absolute amateur here, made my first attempt at stock yesterday and it smells good, and is gelatinous, so hopefully good, though I haven't tried to use it yet.

my question is basically about the state of the bones and if it matters. I did a short boil, just over 3 hours, and I made an effort to break the larger bones (chicken) because I imagine that exposed marrow will have a good effect on the stock, but that's based on "I don't have a clue but that sounds reasonable to me"

So, does it help when compared with whole bones?

Does it hurt?

is it a "depends" scenario?

To comply with rules of posting, recipie is roughly: bones from around a chicken (3 legs and two leg+thigh pieces including the meat from one of the latter because the cat hunted it off the table) one carrot, one red onion, a bit of celery, dried thyme, rosemary, provance, some peppercorns of various colors. the bones were from roasted/braised chicken so spent time in oven but nothing was roasted in it's current state prior to going into a pit with whatever water was needed to cover.

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