/*
- * crc16.h - CRC-16 routine
+ * crc16.h - CRC-16 routine
+ *
* Implements the standard CRC-16:
- * Width 16
- * Poly 0x8005 (x16 + x15 + x2 + 1)
- * Init 0
+ * Width 16
+ * Poly 0x8005 (x16 + x15 + x2 + 1)
+ * Init 0
*
* Copyright (c) 2005 Ben Gardner <bgardner@wabtec.com>
+ *
* This source code is licensed under the GNU General Public License,
* Version 2. See the file COPYING for more details.
*/
+
#ifndef __CRC16_H
#define __CRC16_H
-extern unsigned int ext2fs_crc16(unsigned int crc,
- const void *buffer, unsigned int len);
-#endif
+
+/* for an unknown reason, PPC treats __u16 as signed and keeps doing sign
+ * extension on the value. Instead, use only the low 16 bits of an
+ * unsigned int for holding the CRC value to avoid this.
+ */
+typedef unsigned int crc16_t;
+
+extern crc16_t ext2fs_crc16(crc16_t crc, const void *buffer, unsigned int len);
+#endif /* __CRC16_H */