Date   : Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:43:20 +0100
From   : philb@... (Phil Blundell)
Subject: Calculating CRCs

On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 17:12 +0100, Sprow wrote:
> Quite. Since it's a CRC32 algorithm it would be a bit odd to use anything
> but uint32_t for that variable, and in 1997 I think the only 64 bit machines
> were probably working in the met office,

I think you've slipped a decade there.  I had an Alpha on my desk in
1996, and 64-bit MIPS and SPARC were also fairly widespread by that
time.

p.