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RFC 2440: The C code in section 6.1 relies upon the default integral...

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Comment by Brian Hetrick
Submitted on 2/16/2005
Related RFC: RFC 2440
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The C code in section 6.1 relies upon the default integral type (int) being at least 24 bits wide. To be maximally compliant to the ANSI C specification, which permits int to be only 16 bits wide, the line: crc ^= (octets++) << 16;should be modified to crc ^= (crc24)(octets++) << 16;