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SubjectRe: [RFC] lib: crc8: add new library module providing crc8
On 05/22/2011 05:25 PM, George Spelvin wrote:
>> This is a little-endian CRC, so x^8+x^7+x^6+x^4+x^2+1 is encoded with
>> the x^7 coefficient in bit 0, and the x^0 coefficient in bit 7. (And the
>> x^8 coefficient is implicit and suppressed.)

Thanks. However, your code example is confusing.
>> You can fill in a CRC table for an arbitrary polynomial with
>>
>> #define POLY 0xAB /* 1 + x^2 + x^4 + x^6 + x^7 (+ x^8) */
>> typedef uint8_t crc_type; /* Must be an unsigned type */
>>
>> void
>> crc_le(crc_type const table[256], crc_type crc, u8 const *buf, size_t len)
>> {
>> while (len--)
>> crc = (crc>> 8) ^ table[(crc ^ *buf++)& 0xff];

Here is where my confusion starts. Shifting crc by 8 bits basically
means 0 ^ table[], right?

>> return crc;
>> }
>>
>> If you care, the corresponding code for a big-endian CRC
>> (data and CRC transmitted msbit-first) is:
>>
>> void
>> crc_init_be(crc_type table[256], crc_type poly)
>> {
>> int i, j;
>> crc_type const msbit = ~(~(crc_type)0>> 1); /* Must be unsigned */
>> crc_type t = msbit;
>>
>> table[0] = 0;
>>
>> for (i = 1; i< 256; i *= 2) {
>> t = (t<< 1) ^ (t& msbit ? poly : 0);
>> for (j = 0; j< i; j++)
>> table[i+j] = table[j] ^ t;
>> }
>> }
>>
>> void
>> crc_be(crc_type const table[256], crc_type crc, u8 const *buf, size_t len)
>> {
>> while (len--)
>> crc = (crc<< 8) ^ table[(crc>> (8*sizeof crc - 8)) ^ *buf++];

Here is the other shift of crc that does not make sense to me.

Gr. AvS

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