I would be worried that the collision probability would be too high
with a crc.
Ali
On Jan 30, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Gabe Black wrote:
> Would we need such a strong hash? A dumb CRC would likely be
> sufficient
> if that would be easier to bring in.
>
> Gabe
>
> Ali Saidi wrote:
>> Anyone else? To make this work we would either have to include a md5
>> algorithm is base (I found a BSD licensed one) or require libopenssl.
>>
>> Ali
>>
>> On Jan 30, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Ali Saidi wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Yea I thought about that. Pretty much if you update an error
>>> message,
>>> you need to move the old hash to the new hash on the wiki.
>>>
>>> Ali
>>>
>>> On Jan 30, 2009, at 2:48 AM, Gabe Black wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> That sounds like a good idea, but what if I had panic("Soemthing
>>>> bad")
>>>> and changed it to panic("Something bad")? They'd be the same thing
>>>> but
>>>> with different hashes.
>>>>
>>>> Gabe
>>>>
>>>> Ali Saidi wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> We've talked for a while about needing better error messages,
>>>>> links,
>>>>> more descriptions on the website, etc. How about we modify
>>>>> panic(),
>>>>> fatal(), and warn() to hash the format string for the message and
>>>>> print out a url with some portion of that hash.
>>>>>
>>>>> So:
>>>>> fatal("Parameter %s.%s was not specified")
>>>>> would turn into:
>>>>> Fatal: Parameter foo.bar was not specified
>>>>> See http://www.m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/9c6d054cbec3
>>>>>
>>>>> As people asked questions we could populate the hashes with
>>>>> answers
>>>>> in
>>>>> the wiki. (We could also use url re-writing to make the url a bit
>>>>> smaller).
>>>>>
>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>>
>>>>> Ali
>>>>>
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