Zlib crc32 combine endian format - crc32

Question

I just go through the code of Zlib CRC32 combine function, but I am confused about the endian of the CRC32 input. Does it only work for big endian ? If I have small endian format, should I do a byte swap first before I use the function ? Thanks in advance.
/* ========================================================================= */
local uLong crc32_combine_(crc1, crc2, len2)
uLong crc1;
uLong crc2;
z_off64_t len2;
{
int n;
unsigned long row;
unsigned long even[GF2_DIM]; /* even-power-of-two zeros operator */
unsigned long odd[GF2_DIM]; /* odd-power-of-two zeros operator */
/* degenerate case (also disallow negative lengths) */
if (len2 <= 0)
return crc1;
/* put operator for one zero bit in odd */
odd[0] = 0xedb88320UL; /* CRC-32 polynomial */
row = 1;
for (n = 1; n < GF2_DIM; n++) {
odd[n] = row;
row <<= 1;
}
/* put operator for two zero bits in even */
gf2_matrix_square(even, odd);
/* put operator for four zero bits in odd */
gf2_matrix_square(odd, even);
/* apply len2 zeros to crc1 (first square will put the operator for one
zero byte, eight zero bits, in even) */
do {
/* apply zeros operator for this bit of len2 */
gf2_matrix_square(even, odd);
if (len2 & 1)
crc1 = gf2_matrix_times(even, crc1);
len2 >>= 1;
/* if no more bits set, then done */
if (len2 == 0)
break;
/* another iteration of the loop with odd and even swapped */
gf2_matrix_square(odd, even);
if (len2 & 1)
crc1 = gf2_matrix_times(odd, crc1);
len2 >>= 1;
/* if no more bits set, then done */
} while (len2 != 0);
/* return combined crc */
crc1 ^= crc2;
return crc1;
}

Answer 1

All of zlib works in little or big endian architectures.
There is no "endianess" of the arguments of crc32_combine(). The crc1 and crc2 arguments are passed as 32-bit integers, not sequences of bytes, and so have no endianess.
By the way, there is more recent code for crc32_combine() that is little bit more efficient.