1 /* Implements hashing function for string with known length.
2 Copyright (C) 1996-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
5 The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
6 modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
7 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
8 version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
10 The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
13 Lesser General Public License for more details.
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
16 License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
17 <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
19 #include <sys/types.h>
21 /* We assume to have `size_t' value with at least 32 bits. */
22 #define HASHWORDBITS 32
25 /* Defines the so called `hashpjw' function by P.J. Weinberger
26 [see Aho/Sethi/Ullman, COMPILERS: Principles, Techniques and Tools,
27 1986, 1987 Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.] */
28 static size_t hash_string (const char *__str_param
, size_t __len
);
31 hash_string (const char *str_param
, size_t len
)
34 const char *end_str
= str_param
+ len
;
36 /* Compute the hash value for the given string. */
38 while (str_param
!= end_str
)
41 hval
+= (size_t) *str_param
++;
42 g
= hval
& ((size_t) 0xf << (HASHWORDBITS
- 4));
45 hval
^= g
>> (HASHWORDBITS
- 8);