Re: Looking for symbol table hashing algorithm

jmccarty@sun1307.spd.dsccc.com (Mike McCarty)
3 Jul 1998 22:54:27 -0400

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From: jmccarty@sun1307.spd.dsccc.com (Mike McCarty)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 3 Jul 1998 22:54:27 -0400
Organization: DSC Communications Corporation
References: 98-07-030
Keywords: symbols

An algorithm I used with success in a compiler was


Hash = 0
for each Character
rotate Hash left one circularly
Hash += Character
endfor
Hash += strlen(Token)


Warwick Irwin <wal@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
)Can anyone point me to a reference for an industrial-strength hashing
)algorithm suitable for implementing a symbol table in a C++ parser?
)I would like something that has been tuned for large C++ programs.
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