On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 1:55 AM, Haifeng Liu <liuhaif...@live.com> wrote:

> I want to write a hash function which acts as String.hashCode() in java:
> hash = hash * 31 + s.charAt(i)... but I got integer out of range error. How
> can I avoid this? I saw java do not care overflow of int, it just make the
> result negative.
>
>
Use the bitwise AND operator to mask the hash value with 0x3FFFFFF before
each iteration:

  hash = (hash & 67108863) * 31 + s.charAt(i);

Craig

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