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Re: No zlib crc32 support?

From: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
To: Steve Strublic <SStrublic at hypercom dot com>
Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: 09 Dec 2003 13:45:02 -0700
Subject: Re: [ECOS] No zlib crc32 support?
Organization: MLB Associates
References: <OF4C671845.2019E8CA-ON07256DF7.006FE816-07256DF7.00707DF0@hypercom.com>

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 13:25, Steve Strublic wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm working on a little project to perform validation of a data set, and planned to use zlib's crc32
> call to validate the data.  Much to my surprise, I found that eCos does not support the crc32
> call--apparently, on purpose.
> 
> Would someone be so kind as to explain why this is the case?  I know I can use Adler32 as it's
> supported, but I'm just wondering why crc32 isn't supported.

Actually, I think it's just not duplicated in the ZLIB package.
CRC32 is available in the CRC package.

-- 
Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates


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