1 /* Implements hashing function for string with known length.
2 Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
4 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>, 1996.
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21 #include <sys/types.h>
23 /* We assume to have `size_t' value with at least 32 bits. */
24 #define HASHWORDBITS 32
27 /* Defines the so called `hashpjw' function by P.J. Weinberger
28 [see Aho/Sethi/Ullman, COMPILERS: Principles, Techniques and Tools,
29 1986, 1987 Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.] */
30 static size_t hash_string (const char *__str_param
, size_t __len
);
33 hash_string (const char *str_param
, size_t len
)
36 const char *end_str
= str_param
+ len
;
38 /* Compute the hash value for the given string. */
40 while (str_param
!= end_str
)
43 hval
+= (size_t) *str_param
++;
44 g
= hval
& ((size_t) 0xf << (HASHWORDBITS
- 4));
47 hval
^= g
>> (HASHWORDBITS
- 8);