hashkit_value(3)

libhashkit Documentation

Section 3 libhashkit-dev bookworm source

Description

HASHKIT_VALUE

NAME

hashkit_value - libhashkit Documentation

SYNOPSIS

#include <libhashkit-1.0/hashkit.h>

Compile and link with -lhashkit

uint32_t hashkit_value(hashkit_st *hash, const char *key, size_t
key_length)

Parameters

	•		hash -- pointer to an initialized hashkit_st struct
	•		key -- the key to genereate a hash of
	•		key_length -- the length of the key without any terminating zero byte

DESCRIPTION

The hashkit_value() function generates a 32-bit hash value from the given key and key_length. The hash argument is an initialized hashkit object, and distribution type and hash function is used from this object while generating the value.

RETURN VALUE

A 32-bit hash value.