Had a requirement to write a hashing library in C with 5 character keys and string as value.
Here is the git repo : https://github.com/melwinjose1991/CHasho
The hashing function is based on Java's HashMap.
Info : http://melwin-jose.blogspot.in/2014/11/internal-working-of-hashmap.html
Code reference : https://gist.github.com/tonious/1377667
You are free to use/modify this as per your requirement.
-Chasho
|--> src
| |-> chasho.h
| |-> chasho.c
| |-> com/melwin/chasho
|
|-> example
| |-> example.c
| |-> makefile
chasho.h and chasho.c : the header file and the source file.
example : contains a sample code on how to use CHasho
com/melwin/chasho : contains a Java implemtation of the hashing function used in CHasho
It shows how the 5Character keys are distributed into hashTable with 64 buckets.
Result when all possible 5-character keys were hashed into table with 16 buckets
Bucket[0] 3884771
Bucket[1] 3888063
Bucket[2] 3891167
Bucket[3] 3893639
Bucket[4] 3895132
Bucket[5] 3895427
Bucket[6] 3894480
Bucket[7] 3892435
Bucket[8] 3889583
Bucket[9] 3886323
Bucket[10] 3883140
Bucket[11] 3880547
Bucket[12] 3878969
Bucket[13] 3878653
Bucket[14] 3879648
Bucket[15] 3881803
Bucketized Tokens : 62193780
Generated Tokens : 62193780
Hope you find it useful.