coreutils/lib/hash-pjw.h
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/* hash-pjw.h -- declaration for a simple hash function
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; see the file COPYING.
If not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
#include <stddef.h>
/* Compute a hash code for a NUL-terminated string starting at X,
and return the hash code modulo TABLESIZE.
The result is platform dependent: it depends on the size of the 'size_t'
type and on the signedness of the 'char' type. */
extern size_t hash_pjw (void const *x, size_t tablesize);