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diff --git a/lib/hash-pjw.c b/lib/hash-pjw.c
index 141b08b51..76b4db5c7 100644
--- a/lib/hash-pjw.c
+++ b/lib/hash-pjw.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* hash-pjw.c -- compute a hash value from a NUL-terminated string.
-   Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright (C) 2001, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
-   Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  */
+   Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.  */
 
 #if HAVE_CONFIG_H
 # include <config.h>
@@ -21,22 +21,22 @@
 
 #include "hash-pjw.h"
 
+#include <limits.h>
+
+#define SIZE_BITS (sizeof (size_t) * CHAR_BIT)
+
 /* A hash function for NUL-terminated char* strings using
-   the method described in Aho, Sethi, & Ullman, p 436. */
+   the method described by Bruno Haible.
+   See http://www.haible.de/bruno/hashfunc.html.  */
 
-unsigned int
-hash_pjw (const void *x, unsigned int tablesize)
+size_t
+hash_pjw (const void *x, size_t tablesize)
 {
-  const char *s = x;
-  unsigned int h = 0;
-  unsigned int g;
-
-  while (*s != 0)
-    {
-      h = (h << 4) + *s++;
-      if ((g = h & (unsigned int) 0xf0000000) != 0)
-        h = (h ^ (g >> 24)) ^ g;
-    }
-
-  return (h % tablesize);
+  const char *s;
+  size_t h = 0;
+
+  for (s = x; *s; s++)
+    h = *s + ((h << 9) | (h >> (SIZE_BITS - 9)));
+
+  return h % tablesize;
 }