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SHORT DESCRIPTION

Hashing Function for strings

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UNIT NAME
Abstractions/HASHFCN (A1HSHFCN)
VERSION
1.0
REVIEW CODE
C1 1.0 A
INET ADDRESS
Not documented in PAL database
AUTHOR
Bill Toscano, Michael Gordon
Intermetrics, Inc,
733 Concord Ave
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact: Lt. Colonel Falgiano
ESD/SCW
Hanscom AFB, MA 01731
RIGHTS
PUBLIC DOMAIN
COPYRIGHT
(c) 1985 Intermetrics, Inc.
DATE CREATED
15 October 1985
DATE RELEASED
18 March 1985
DATE LAST UPDATED
17 March 1985
LOCATION
ASR
C2MUG
PC-BLUE
ENVIRONMENT
VAX/VMS, DEC Ada
LIMITATIONS
Not documented in PAL database
CERTIFICATION
Ada System Certifier_1 1.0
Date/Time of Processing: Tuesday   24 May       1994 01:10:27Pm
Overall Assessment of System: OK
Classification of System: A
Basis of Classification --
Syntax Errors                               PASS
Completeness                                PASS
Independence from External Libraries        PASS
Independence from a Specific Ada Compiler   PASS

Number of ...
Files               2
Library Units       2
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Statements         30
Comments           17

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languages/ada/asr/abstractions/hashfcns:
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ABSTRACT

	This generic package contains one generic function, HASH_STRING,
which generates a hashing number for a string, where the hashing
number is in the range from 0 to PRIME-1, where PRIME is a POSITIVE
number passed as a generic parameter.
        ABSTRACTIONS  is  used  by NOSC/WIS tools 5.1.1, 5.1.2, 6.1.2,
and 6.2.  See also NEW_ABSTRACTIONS.

REVISION HISTORY

DATE         VERSION AUTHOR                  HISTORY 
03/85        1.0  Bill Toscano               Initial Release

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