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djb2 correction

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: 50093 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, alex.murray <at> canonical.com
Subject: bug#50093: djb2 correction
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 12:32:39 +0200

Alex Murray noticed that my djb2 implementation mistakenly initialized
to 0, rather than to 5381. Corrected with this:

>From 54590ca833dba62041af045e7bc7c09b90b54b71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Murray <alex.murray <at> canonical.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 03:24:37 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] grep: correct DJB2 initialization

* src/grep.c (hash_pattern): DJB2 starts with 5381, not 0.
---
 src/grep.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/grep.c b/src/grep.c
index 271b6b9..8fed550 100644
--- a/src/grep.c
+++ b/src/grep.c
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ static Hash_table *pattern_table;
 static size_t _GL_ATTRIBUTE_PURE
 hash_pattern (void const *pat, size_t n_buckets)
 {
-  size_t h = 0;
+  size_t h = 5381;
   intptr_t pat_offset = (intptr_t) pat - 1;
   unsigned char const *s = (unsigned char const *) pattern_array + pat_offset;
   for ( ; *s != '\n'; s++)
--

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