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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2018 "IoT.bzh"
+ * Author: José Bollo <jose.bollo@iot.bzh>
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+/*
+ * Returns a tiny hash value for the 'text'.
+ *
+ * Tiny hash function inspired from pearson
+ */
+uint8_t pearson4(const char *text)
+{
+ static uint8_t T[16] = {
+ 4, 1, 6, 0, 9, 14, 11, 5,
+ 2, 3, 12, 15, 10, 7, 8, 13
+ };
+ uint8_t r, c;
+
+ for (r = 0; (c = (uint8_t)*text) ; text++) {
+ r = T[r ^ (15 & c)];
+ r = T[r ^ (c >> 4)];
+ }
+ return r; // % HEADCOUNT;
+}
+