[Coco] Drivewire mixed results...

[Boisy Pitre]

On Sep 25, 2008, at 7:52 AM, Chuck Youse wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 07:38 -0500, Boisy Pitre wrote:
>> Your post is ambiguous.  In what way is the code ambiguous?
>
>>>
>>> int calChecksum(char *ptr, int count)
>>> {
>>>    short Checksum = 0;
>>>    while(--count)
>>>    {
>>>         Checksum += *(ptr++);
>>>    }
>>>    return (Checksum);
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>
> Sorry, by saying the code is 'ambiguous' I meant that it can be
> interpreted by different compilers to mean different things, resulting
> in different values of 'Checksum' for the same block of data.

I don't see right off-hand how that might be, but I'm open to  
suggestions.  Feel free to provide an improved function and I'll  
certainly incorporate it into the next rev of the specification  
document.

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Boisy G. Pitre
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