1 /* Implements hashing function for string with known length.
2 Copyright (C) 1996-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
4 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>, 1996.
6 The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
7 modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
8 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
9 version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
11 The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
14 Lesser General Public License for more details.
16 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
17 License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
18 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
20 #include <sys/types.h>
22 /* We assume to have `size_t' value with at least 32 bits. */
23 #define HASHWORDBITS 32
26 /* Defines the so called `hashpjw' function by P.J. Weinberger
27 [see Aho/Sethi/Ullman, COMPILERS: Principles, Techniques and Tools,
28 1986, 1987 Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.] */
29 static size_t hash_string (const char *__str_param
, size_t __len
);
32 hash_string (const char *str_param
, size_t len
)
35 const char *end_str
= str_param
+ len
;
37 /* Compute the hash value for the given string. */
39 while (str_param
!= end_str
)
42 hval
+= (size_t) *str_param
++;
43 g
= hval
& ((size_t) 0xf << (HASHWORDBITS
- 4));
46 hval
^= g
>> (HASHWORDBITS
- 8);