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| author | Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se> | 2024-08-24 01:05:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se> | 2024-08-24 01:05:44 +0200 |
| commit | cf0f05362e71c189b8052bbfddd2f270f907041e (patch) | |
| tree | 371ba96e6d0cdda94a5ba0f07628b1d1ea0c5960 /libhashsum.h | |
| parent | Fix makefile (diff) | |
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Standardise how to interpret a partial byte
Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se>
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| -rw-r--r-- | libhashsum.h | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/libhashsum.h b/libhashsum.h index 5fb71cf..0bfb48a 100644 --- a/libhashsum.h +++ b/libhashsum.h @@ -315,6 +315,13 @@ struct libhashsum_hasher { * Update the hash state given it's final * input data * + * Regardless of the algorithm's standard, the function + * will takes the lower bits from `data[bytes]`, if + * `extra_bits > 0` and use the for the additional bits; + * the least significant bit will be used as the first + * bit and the most significant bit will be used as the + * last bit + * * @param this The object containing this function pointer * @param data The new input data, the function may rewrite it's content * @param bytes The number of bytes available in `data` for reading @@ -333,6 +340,13 @@ struct libhashsum_hasher { * Update the hash state given it's final * input data * + * Regardless of the algorithm's standard, the function + * will takes the lower bits from `data[bytes]`, if + * `extra_bits > 0` and use the for the additional bits; + * the least significant bit will be used as the first + * bit and the most significant bit will be used as the + * last bit + * * @param this The object containing this function pointer * @param data The new input data, the function may rewrite it's content * @param bytes The number of bytes available in `data` for reading |