Can _mm_crc32_u64() return a value that is bigger than MAX_UINT32?

[Segher Boessenkool]

Hello,

On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 03:24:14PM +0200, Eitan Azriel wrote:
> The signature of _mm_crc32_u64() is:
> unsigned int64 _mm_crc32_u64 (
>    unsigned __int64 crc,
>    unsigned __int64 v
> );
> 
> Why does it return int64, and not uint32? Shouldn't it return a valid CRC32
> value?

GCC uses int64 because that is what the ABI/API says it should do.

Presumably it uses int64 for output because it does use it for input
and there was the desire to use the same type everywhere.


Segher