freebsd-src/contrib/gperf/lib/hash.cc
2000-10-13 12:04:55 +00:00

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/*
Copyright (C) 1990, 2000 Free Software Foundation
written by Doug Lea (dl@rocky.oswego.edu)
*/
#include <hash.h>
/*
Some useful hash function.
It's not a particularly good hash function (<< 5 would be better than << 4),
but people believe in it because it comes from Dragon book.
*/
unsigned int
hashpjw (const char *x, unsigned int len) // From Dragon book, p436
{
unsigned int h = 0;
unsigned int g;
for (; len > 0; len--)
{
h = (h << 4) + (unsigned char) *x++;
if ((g = h & 0xf0000000) != 0)
h = (h ^ (g >> 24)) ^ g;
}
return h;
}