David, I'd encourage you to encourage the powers-that-be to "expose" this function.
It's low-cost, generic, and used for a number of things around the programing and internet world nowadays. (E.g. If you want something a bit stronger than the built-in 16-bit CRC, a partial MD5 can fill the bill.) And it's been in the OS long enough (since 2.0) that lots of odd-ball things would probably break if it went away. Of course, there might be an argument for changing it to SHA or something of the sort. :) Just a thought. Thanks, Alex David Fedor wrote: > > >Since this function is not documented it does mean that I should not use > >this function? > > Correct. There are many functions that are used internally by the system, > which are free to come and go from one OS release to another. Things go in > the documentation when the platform commits to having it work reliably and > having it continue to be available. > > If you're just hacking this for your own fun, go right ahead and hack. But > shipping it to customers would generally be considered a bad idea, even if > you warn them that it is likely to fail in the future. > > -David Fedor > Palm, Inc. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
