HASHKIT_VALUE(3)

💖 HASHKIT_VALUE 💖

okay bestie, welcome to hashkit_value — this is the one from libhashkit Documentation, part of the libmemcached-awesome crew. she's short, she's sweet, she turns your keys into numbers. that's the whole job. slay. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

first things first, you gotta bring her in:

#include <libhashkit-1.0/hashkit.h>

and when you're compiling, don't forget to link her, or she simply will not show up:

Compile and link with -lhashkit

then here's the actual function signature, exactly as she is, no edits:

uint32_t hashkit_value(hashkit_st *hash, const char *key, size_t key_length)

🌸 Parameters

• hash — a pointer to an initialized hashkit_st struct. initialized!! do not hand her a struct you just declared and forgot about, she will not know what to do with it 🫶
• key — the key you want a hash of
• key_length — the length of that key, and note that this is without any terminating zero byte. the \0 is not invited to this party, okay? don't count it. 🙈

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so like, here's the tea: hashkit_value() generates a 32-bit hash value from the key you give her and its key_length.

the hash argument is an initialized hashkit object, and the way she works is — she pulls the distribution type and the hash function off of that object while she's generating the value. so the object is lowkey the main character here, it's literally deciding how your key gets hashed. iykyk. ✨

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🎀 RETURN VALUE 🎀

she hands you back a 32-bit hash value. that's it, that's the whole return. no drama, no error codes, just a number. iconic behavior honestly. 👑

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• libhashkit(3)
• hashkit_create(3)
• hashkit_function(3)
• hashkit_functions(3)

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libmemcached-awesome — version 1.1, dated Jul 24, 2025. that's the whole page bestie, go forth and hash responsibly 💖✨🦋