Re: [OctDev] More limitations in coding functions

[David B. <Dav...@mo...>]

Reading the comment in syndtable.cc 

  // Could convert this to unsigned long long, but there isn't much point.
  // the syndrome table can already have 2^32 rows with n columns, which
  // is already unrealistically large. The result is DON'T use this with
  // large BCH codes!!!!

you'll see why this limitation exists. In fact the problem is not the
syndrome table itself, but the calculation of all possible ways to have
n bit errors in a codeword which can be extremely large. I imagine there
is a better way to calculate the syndrome table and in fact until this
constraint is relaxed BCH and RS codes are the best bet :-) ...

If you have any better way to calculate the syndrome table I'd be
happy to get some advice..

D.
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