[Coco] Ambiguous code

Chuck Youse cyouse at serialtechnologies.com
Thu Sep 25 17:42:20 EDT 2008


On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 13:50 -0700, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
> Years ago I did some comparisons between the CRC32 values generated by OS-9
> and MSDOS for the same files.
> 
> The code I had generated the same values. And matched other software
> generated values from various MSDOS programs.
> 
> This of course takes a lot more computing to generate than the checksum
> calculation.
> 
> Stephen H. Fischer

Assuming you're using the same size CRC and same CRC polynomial, that's
exactly what you would expect.  That doesn't have any bearing on the
present conversation, though, unless I'm missing your point.

C.





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