My Crc-32 routine

 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 10-06-92 (06:30)             Number: 336
From: ARTHUR SHIPKOWSKI            Refer#: NONE
  To: RICH GELDREICH                Recvd: NO  
Subj: My Crc-32 routine              Conf: (2) Quik_Bas

Hello Rich!

Sunday October 04 1992 11:16, Rich Geldreich wrote to All:

 RG>     Ooops! Forget to tell everybody that my all-QB CRC routine WILL NOT
 RG> work in the enviroment- I optimized it to work compiled. It will bomb
 RG> out from an overflow error when it tries to convert the 32 bit CRC into
 RG> an integer for a fast AND 255:
 RG>
 RG> CINT(A&) AND 255
 RG>
 RG>     is faster than
 RG>
 RG> A& AND 255
 RG>
 RG>     Sorry about that guys...
 RG>

Ack! And after I spent an hour trying to fix that CINT by
writing my own LNG to INT function (which nuked the
CRC...), and eventually changing CINT to CLNG...

Arthur

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