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      1 /* Description of GNU message catalog format: string hashing function.
      2    Copyright (C) 1995, 1997-1998, 2000-2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
      3 
      4    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
      5    under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published
      6    by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
      7    any later version.
      8 
      9    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
     10    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
     11    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
     12    Library General Public License for more details.
     13 
     14    You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
     15    License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
     16    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307,
     17    USA.  */
     18 
     19 /* @@ end of prolog @@ */
     20 
     21 /* We assume to have `unsigned long int' value with at least 32 bits.  */
     22 #define HASHWORDBITS 32
     23 
     24 
     25 /* Defines the so called `hashpjw' function by P.J. Weinberger
     26    [see Aho/Sethi/Ullman, COMPILERS: Principles, Techniques and Tools,
     27    1986, 1987 Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.]  */
     28 static inline unsigned long int
     29 hash_string (const char *str_param)
     30 {
     31   unsigned long int hval, g;
     32   const char *str = str_param;
     33 
     34   /* Compute the hash value for the given string.  */
     35   hval = 0;
     36   while (*str != '\0')
     37     {
     38       hval <<= 4;
     39       hval += (unsigned char) *str++;
     40       g = hval & ((unsigned long int) 0xf << (HASHWORDBITS - 4));
     41       if (g != 0)
     42 	{
     43 	  hval ^= g >> (HASHWORDBITS - 8);
     44 	  hval ^= g;
     45 	}
     46     }
     47   return hval;
     48 }
     49