Re: [PATCH] crc: New optimised slice-by-8 implementation

[Pádraig Brady]

On 31/10/2024 22:01, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 31/10/2024 18:35, Sam Russell wrote:
> >   > `cksum -a crc32` could be added I suppose to select the current 
> > implementation in gnulib
> >
> > both versions are CRC32 though, and then if you look at the iSCSI/SCTP version 
> > they use CRC32-C which uses a totally different polynomial, not just a reversed 
> > order one like gzip
>
> Right. So if presenting what's in gnulib now from coreutils,
> we would be better to distinguish which crc32 we're referring to.
> I see 'crc32b' is commonly used for the current gnulib implementation.
> So I can add `cksum -a crc32b` very easily now to coreutils.
> I'll send a patch tomorrow for that.

coreutils `cksum -a crc32b` implementation attached.

cheers,
Pádraig

cksum-crc32b.patch
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