Carpet/Carpet/src/adler32.cc


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// ADLER-32 checksum algorithm, taken from
// <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adler-32>

#include "adler32.hh"

namespace Carpet {
  
  unsigned long const mod_adler = 65521;
  
  unsigned long
  adler32(char const *const data, // location of the data
          std::size_t const len)  // length of the data in bytes
  {
    unsigned long a = 1, b = 0;
    
    // Process each byte of the data in order
    for (std::size_t i = 0; i < len; ++i) {
      a = (a + (unsigned char)data[i]) % mod_adler;
      b = (b + a) % mod_adler;
    }
    
    return (b << 16) | a;
  }
  
}