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-- --
-- GNAT COMPILER COMPONENTS --
-- --
-- S Y S T E M . S T R I N G _ H A S H --
-- --
-- S p e c --
-- --
-- Copyright (C) 2009, Free Software Foundation, Inc. --
-- --
-- GNAT is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under --
-- terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Soft- --
-- ware Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later ver- --
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-- OUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY --
-- or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. --
-- --
-- As a special exception under Section 7 of GPL version 3, you are granted --
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-- <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. --
-- --
-- GNAT was originally developed by the GNAT team at New York University. --
-- Extensive contributions were provided by Ada Core Technologies Inc. --
-- --
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-- This package provides a generic hashing function over strings, suitable for
-- use with a string keyed hash table. In particular, it is the basis for the
-- string hash functions in Ada.Containers.
--
-- The algorithm used here is not appropriate for applications that require
-- cryptographically strong hashes, or for application which wish to use very
-- wide hash values as pseudo unique identifiers. In such cases please refer
-- to GNAT.SHA1 and GNAT.MD5.
package System.String_Hash is
pragma Pure;
generic
type Char_Type is (<>);
-- The character type composing the key string type
type Key_Type is array (Positive range <>) of Char_Type;
-- The string type to use as a hash key
type Hash_Type is mod <>;
-- The type to be returned as a hash value. This must be a 32-bit
-- unsigned type with full range 0 .. 2**32-1, no other type is allowed
-- for this instantiation (checked in the body by Compile_Time_Error).
function Hash (Key : Key_Type) return Hash_Type;
pragma Inline (Hash);
-- Compute a hash value for a key
end System.String_Hash;