From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27290 invoked by alias); 9 Dec 2003 20:45:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 27283 invoked from network); 9 Dec 2003 20:45:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hermes.chez-thomas.org) (63.225.98.241) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 9 Dec 2003 20:45:03 -0000 Received: by hermes.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 2000) id 2F79D50E1B2; Tue, 9 Dec 2003 13:45:03 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by hermes.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 460EE50E049; Tue, 9 Dec 2003 13:45:02 -0700 (MST) From: Gary Thomas To: Steve Strublic Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: MLB Associates Message-Id: <1071002700.16658.151.camel@hermes> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 20:45:00 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_01,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_XIMIAN autolearn=ham version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) Subject: Re: [ECOS] No zlib crc32 support? X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00104.txt.bz2 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 MLB Associates -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://sources.redhat.com/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/ecos-discuss