RE: Re: CRC problem with 8 bit truncated polynomial

From: Vladimir Prus (yg-boost-users_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-09 09:15:33

Hi Jim,

Jim.Hyslop wrote:
> Vladimir Prus wrote:
>> I'm guessing this should be
>> 
>> std::cout << "Optimal CRC-8 : "  << std::hex << (unsigned)crc_8()
>>     << std::endl;
>> 
>> The way iostreams format chars is most likely not what you wanted.
> True enough - and that includes signed vs. unsigned chars (both are
> handled the same, at least with my compiler).
> 
> The result needs to be put into an unsigned *int* for cout to display the
> numeric value.

Sorry, I don't understand what you're saying... 

std::cout << "Optimal CRC-8 : "  << std::hex << (unsigned)crc_8()
     << std::endl;

is the same as 

std::cout << "Optimal CRC-8 : "  << std::hex << (unsigned int)crc_8()
     << std::endl;

AFAIK. 

- Volodya