fletcher32.h

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// srecord - Manipulate EPROM load files
// Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Peter Miller
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#ifndef SRECORD_FLETCHER32_H
#define SRECORD_FLETCHER32_H
 
#include <stddef.h>
 
namespace srecord
{
 
/**
  * The fletcher32 class is used to represent the running value of a 32-bit
  * Fletcher's Checksum of a series of bytes.
  *
  * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher%27s_checksum
  *
  * Fletcher's checksum is one of several types of checksum algorithms,
  * which are relatively simple processes used by computers to check the
  * integrity of data.
  *
  * The implementation of the Fletcher-32 is very similar to the Adler-32
  * algorithm but several differences should be noted. Fletcher wraps around
  * at modulo 65535 while Adler wraps at the prime 65521. In other words,
  * Fletcher adds overflow bits (16-31) into its sum; while Adler multiplies
  * those bits by 15, then adds the product into its sum. Fletcher-32 works
  * on 16 bit data while Adler works on 8 bit data.
  *
  * It is designed to overcome some of the inadequacies of simply summing
  * all the bytes as in the original checksum. Fletcher's checksum, unlike
  * the original checksum, can detect the inserting/deleting of zero value
  * bytes, the reordering of bytes, and the incrementing and decrementing of
  * bytes in opposite directions.
  *
  * Fletcher's checksum is described in RFC 1146. You can also find
  * information about generating (as well as verifying) such a checksum in
  * Annex B of RFC 905.
  *
  * Fletcher-32 is slightly more reliable than Adler-32.[1]
  */
class fletcher32
{
public:
    /**
      * The destructor.
      */
    virtual ~fletcher32();
 
    /**
      * The default constructor.
      */
    fletcher32();
 
    /**
      * The copy constructor.
      */
    fletcher32(const fletcher32 &);
 
    /**
      * The assignment operator.
      */
    fletcher32 &operator=(const fletcher32 &);
 
    /**
      * The get method is used to obtain the running value of the cyclic
      * redundancy check.
      */
    unsigned long get() const;
 
    /**
      * The next method is used to advance the state by one byte.
      */
    void next(unsigned char);
 
    /**
      * The nextbuf method is used to advance the state by a series of bytes.
      */
    void nextbuf(const void *, size_t);
 
private:
    /**
      * The sum1 instance variable is used to remember the sum of the bytes.
      */
    unsigned long sum1;
 
    /**
      * The sum2 instance variable is used to remember the sum of the
      * sum of the bytes.
      */
    unsigned long sum2;
};
 
};
 
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#endif // SRECORD_FLETCHER32_H