netbsd man page for elf_hash

ELF_HASH(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 					       ELF_HASH(3)

NAME
     elf_hash -- compute a hash value for a string

LIBRARY
     ELF Access Library (libelf, -lelf)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <libelf.h>

     unsigned long
     elf_hash(const char *name);

DESCRIPTION
     Function elf_hash() computes a portable hash value for the null terminated string pointed to by argument name.

     The hash value returned is will be identical across machines of different architectures.  This allows hash tables to be built on one machine
     and correctly used on another of a different architecture.  The hash value returned is also guaranteed not to be the bit pattern of all ones
     (~0UL).

IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
     The library internally uses unsigned 32 bit arithmetic to compute the hash value.

SEE ALSO
     elf(3), gelf(3)

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								  August 15, 2006							       BSD