coreutils/lib/hash-pjw.c
2001-10-05 11:44:30 +00:00

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/* hash-pjw.c -- compute a hash value from a NUL-terminated string.
Copyright 2001 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., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
#if HAVE_CONFIG_H
# include <config.h>
#endif
#include "hash-pjw.h"
/* A hash function for NUL-terminated char* strings using
the method described in Aho, Sethi, & Ullman, p 436. */
unsigned int
hash_pjw (const void *x, unsigned int tablesize)
{
const char *s = x;
unsigned int h = 0;
unsigned int g;
while (*s != 0)
{
h = (h << 4) + *s++;
if ((g = h & (unsigned int) 0xf0000000) != 0)
h = (h ^ (g >> 24)) ^ g;
}
return (h % tablesize);
}