coreutils/lib/hash-pjw.c

/* hash-pjw.c -- compute a hash value from a NUL-terminated string.
   Copyright (C) 2001, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
   any later version.

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   GNU General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
   Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.  */

#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
# include <config.h>
#endif

#include "hash-pjw.h"

#include <limits.h>

#define SIZE_BITS (sizeof (size_t) * CHAR_BIT)

/* A hash function for NUL-terminated char* strings using
   the method described by Bruno Haible.
   See http://www.haible.de/bruno/hashfunc.html.  */

size_t
hash_pjw (const void *x, size_t tablesize)
{
  const char *s;
  size_t h = 0;

  for (s = x; *s; s++)
    h = *s + ((h << 9) | (h >> (SIZE_BITS - 9)));

  return h % tablesize;
}