Re: Adding slice-by-4 and slice-by-8 to CRC32

[Pádraig Brady]

On 14/10/2024 15:53, Sam Russell wrote:
>  > For reference, coreutils' cksum uses slice by 8 unconditionally since:
>  > https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/a7533917e 
> <https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/a7533917e>
>
> perfect, we could just copy this across then? is there a reason gnulib wouldn't 
> just include coreutils as a dependency?

It might be best to copy/adjust the coreutils code across to gnulib,
then coreutils could be adjusted to use the gnulib routines.
The crc code is under the same licence in gnulib and coreutils, so there should 
be no issue.

cheers,
Pádraig