[SCM] libav/experimental: Additional documentation for CRC functions

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The following commit has been merged in the experimental branch:
commit 45e3c163a95cc006e6dceefef4fe7b720adf7f6e
Author: Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de>
Date:   Mon Aug 20 16:54:47 2007 +0000

    Additional documentation for CRC functions
    
    Originally committed as revision 10151 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk

diff --git a/libavutil/crc.c b/libavutil/crc.c
index b519ac4..91257d2 100644
--- a/libavutil/crc.c
+++ b/libavutil/crc.c
@@ -37,6 +37,15 @@ AVCRC av_crc07      [257];
  * Inits a crc table.
  * @param ctx must be an array of sizeof(AVCRC)*257 or sizeof(AVCRC)*1024
  * @param cts_size size of ctx in bytes
+ * @param le if 1, lowest bit represents coefficient for highest exponent
+ *           of corresponding polynomial (both for poly and actual CRC).
+ *           If 0, you must swap the crc parameter and the result of av_crc
+ *           if you need the standard representation (can be simplified in
+ *           most cases to e.g. bswap16):
+ *           bswap_32(crc << (32-bits))
+ * @param bits number of bits for the CRC
+ * @param poly generator polynomial without the x**bits coefficient, in the
+ *             representation as specified by le
  * @return <0 on failure
  */
 int av_crc_init(AVCRC *ctx, int le, int bits, uint32_t poly, int ctx_size){
@@ -70,6 +79,13 @@ int av_crc_init(AVCRC *ctx, int le, int bits, uint32_t poly, int ctx_size){
     return 0;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Calculate the CRC of a block
+ * @param crc CRC of previous blocks if any or initial value for CRC.
+ * @return CRC updated with the data from the given block
+ *
+ * @see av_crc_init() "le" parameter
+ */
 uint32_t av_crc(const AVCRC *ctx, uint32_t crc, const uint8_t *buffer, size_t length){
     const uint8_t *end= buffer+length;
 

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