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diff --git a/gl/lib/hash-pjw-bare.c b/gl/lib/hash-pjw-bare.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000..390c9ce --- /dev/null +++ b/gl/lib/hash-pjw-bare.c @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +/* hash-pjw-bare.c -- compute a hash value from a provided buffer. + + Copyright (C) 2012-2020 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 3 of the License, 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, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ + +#include <config.h> + +#include "hash-pjw-bare.h" + +#include <limits.h> + +#define SIZE_BITS (sizeof (size_t) * CHAR_BIT) + +/* Return a hash of the N bytes of X using the method described by + Bruno Haible in https://www.haible.de/bruno/hashfunc.html. + Note that while many hash functions reduce their result via modulo + to a 0..table_size-1 range, this function does not do that. */ + +size_t +hash_pjw_bare (const void *x, size_t n) +{ + const unsigned char *s = x; + size_t h = 0; + unsigned i; + + for (i = 0; i < n; i++) + h = s[i] + ((h << 9) | (h >> (SIZE_BITS - 9))); + + return h; +} |