source: main/trunk/greenstone2/common-src/packages/gdbm/gdbm-1.8.3/hash.c@ 21356

Last change on this file since 21356 was 18019, checked in by mdewsnip, 15 years ago

Added gdbm-1.8.3 (downloaded as gdbm-1.8.3.tar.gz and unpacked), in preparation for adding code for reading both little and big endian databases.

File size: 2.0 KB
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1/* hash.c - The gdbm hash function. */
2
3/* This file is part of GDBM, the GNU data base manager, by Philip A. Nelson.
4 Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5
6 GDBM is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
7 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
9 any later version.
10
11 GDBM is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
14 GNU General Public License for more details.
15
16 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
17 along with GDBM; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
18 the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
19
20 You may contact the author by:
21 e-mail: [email protected]
22 us-mail: Philip A. Nelson
23 Computer Science Department
24 Western Washington University
25 Bellingham, WA 98226
26
27*************************************************************************/
28
29
30/* include system configuration before all else. */
31#include "autoconf.h"
32
33#include "gdbmdefs.h"
34
35
36/* This hash function computes a 31 bit value. The value is used to index
37 the hash directory using the top n bits. It is also used in a hash bucket
38 to find the home position of the element by taking the value modulo the
39 bucket hash table size. */
40
41int
42_gdbm_hash (key)
43 datum key;
44{
45 unsigned int value; /* Used to compute the hash value. */
46 int index; /* Used to cycle through random values. */
47
48
49 /* Set the initial value from key. */
50 value = 0x238F13AF * key.dsize;
51 for (index = 0; index < key.dsize; index++)
52 value = (value + (key.dptr[index] << (index*5 % 24))) & 0x7FFFFFFF;
53
54 value = (1103515243 * value + 12345) & 0x7FFFFFFF;
55
56 /* Return the value. */
57 return((int) value);
58}
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