[fpc-devel] Bug in Gettext?

[Klaus Reimer]

Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> Probably the error is in the hash code ?
> Does GNU gettext take the #4 into account when it generates the hash code ?

gettext doesn't has its own hash method. It uses the global hash
function defined in the objpas unit. I already wondered how this can
work at all. Maybe its the same algorithm as used by the msgfmt tool of
gettext. Don't know. I have no experience with hash algorithms. But this
code generates different hash codes so maybe this proves that #4 is not
ignored in the hash:

  WriteLn(Hash('hallo' + #4));
  WriteLn(Hash('hallo' + #3));


Output:

  115880692
  115880691

-- 
Bye, K <http://www.ailis.de/~k/>
[A735 47EC D87B 1F15 C1E9 53D3 AA03 6173 A723 E391]
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