I am calling two functions on my char* s = "pratik"
:
#include <zlib.h>
int main()
{
char *s = "pratik";
printf("%x\n", crc32(0x80000000, s, strlen(s)));
return 0;
}
Output: 66fa3c99
#include <linux/crc32.h>
int main()
{
char *s = "pratik";
printf("%x\n", crc32(0x80000000, s, strlen(s)));
return 0;
}
Output: d7389d3a
Why are the values of the checksums on the same strings different?
It appears that someone was disturbed by the fact that the standard Ethernet (PKZIP, ITU V.42 etc. etc.) CRC-32 does a pre- and post-exclusive-or with 0xffffffff
. So the version in the Linux kernel leaves that out, and expects the application to do that. Go figure.
Anyway, you can get the same result as the (correct) zlib crc32()
, using the (non-standard) Linux crc32()
instead, thusly:
crc_final = crc32(crc_initial ^ 0xffffffff, buf, len) ^ 0xffffffff;
In fact, that exact same code would allow you to duplicate the Linux crc32()
using the zlib crc32()
as well.