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Date:      Thu, 21 Nov 2013 20:50:19 +0000
From:      "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com>
To:        Boris Astardzhiev <boris.astardzhiev@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com>
Subject:   Re: CRC32 feature in FreeBSD's bootloader
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On Nov 21, 2013, at 12:23 PM, Boris Astardzhiev wrote:

> Hello,
>=20
> A few months ago I posted a new feature in the FreeBSD bootloader.
> So far I haven't received any comments so I'll try to revive this topic.
>=20
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D172301&cat=3D
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2012-October/015288.html
>=20
> It may be of use to somebody. So any comments and suggestions?
>=20

I think it's a great idea. But...

Can you extend it to be available to the Forth layer.
That is, add a command to ficl.c that calls your code.

I would very much like to be able to compute the CRC32 of a file from
within Forth and get the results back on the stack.
--=20
Devin

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