locale/hashval.h

   1 /* Implement simple hashing table with string based keys.
   2    Copyright (C) 1994-1997, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   3    This file is part of the GNU C Library.
   4    Written by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gnu.ai.mit.edu>, October 1994.
   5
   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.
  10
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  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.
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  18    Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
  19    02111-1307 USA.  */
  20
  21 #ifndef hashval_t
  22 # define hashval_t unsigned long int
  23 #endif
  24 #include <limits.h>             /* For CHAR_BIT.  */
  25
  26 hashval_t
  27 compute_hashval (const void *key, size_t keylen)
  28 {
  29   size_t cnt;
  30   hashval_t hval;
  31
  32   /* Compute the hash value for the given string.  The algorithm
  33      is taken from [Aho,Sethi,Ullman], modified to reduce the number of
  34      collisions for short strings with very varied bit patterns.
  35      See http://www.clisp.org/haible/hashfunc.html.  */
  36   cnt = 0;
  37   hval = keylen;
  38   while (cnt < keylen)
  39     {
  40       hval = (hval << 9) | (hval >> (sizeof hval * CHAR_BIT - 9));
  41       hval += (hashval_t) *(((char *) key) + cnt++);
  42     }
  43   return hval != 0 ? hval : ~((hashval_t) 0);
  44 }