/* Description of GNU message catalog format: string hashing function.

   Copyright (C) 1995, 1997-1998, 2000-2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it

   under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published

   by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, 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

   Library General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public

   License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

   Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301,

   USA.  */

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/* We assume to have `unsigned long int' value with at least 32 bits.  */

#define HASHWORDBITS 32

/* Defines the so called `hashpjw' function by P.J. Weinberger

   [see Aho/Sethi/Ullman, COMPILERS: Principles, Techniques and Tools,

   1986, 1987 Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.]  */

static inline unsigned long int

hash_string (const char *str_param)

{

  unsigned long int hval, g;

  const char *str = str_param;

  /* Compute the hash value for the given string.  */

  hval = 0;

  while (*str != '\0')

    {

      hval <<= 4;

      hval += (unsigned char) *str++;

      g = hval & ((unsigned long int) 0xf << (HASHWORDBITS - 4));

      if (g != 0)

	{

	  hval ^= g >> (HASHWORDBITS - 8);

	  hval ^= g;

	}

    }

  return hval;

}