freebsd-skq/contrib/elftoolchain/libelf/elf_hash.3
Ed Maste ae500c1ff8 Update to ELF Tool Chain r3668
Highlights:
- Make sure that only TLS sections are sorted into TLS segment.
- Fixed multiple errors in "Section to Segment mapping".
- Man page updates
- ar improvements
- elfcopy: avoid filter_reloc uninitialized variable for rela
- elfcopy: avoid stripping relocations from static binaries
- readelf: avoid printing directory in front of absolute path
- readelf: add NT_FREEBSD_FEATURE_CTL FreeBSD note type
- test improvements

NOTES:

Some of these changes originated in FreeBSD and simply reduce diffs
between contrib and vendor.

ELF Tool Chain ar is not (currently) used in FreeBSD, and there are
improvements in both FreeBSD and ELF Tool Chain ar that are not in
the other.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
2019-01-10 14:35:23 +00:00

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.\" $Id: elf_hash.3 3639 2018-10-14 14:07:02Z jkoshy $
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.Dd August 15, 2006
.Dt ELF_HASH 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm elf_hash
.Nd compute a hash value for a string
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libelf
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In libelf.h
.Ft "unsigned long"
.Fn elf_hash "const char *name"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
Function
.Fn elf_hash
computes a portable hash value for the null terminated string
pointed to by argument
.Ar name .
.Pp
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
.Em not
to be the bit pattern of all ones (~0UL).
.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
The library internally uses unsigned 32 bit arithmetic to compute
the hash value.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr elf 3 ,
.Xr gelf 3