gdbsupport: add gdb::string_view_hash

Add the string_view_hash type, which will be useful to be able to use
gdb::string_view as std::unordered_map keys.

Use it in gdb/symtab.c, to exercise it.

Change-Id: Id69a466ab19a9f6620b5df8a2dd29b5cddd94c00
Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>

2 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/gdb/symtab.c b/gdb/symtab.c
index f2b1a14..b344513 100644
--- a/gdb/symtab.c
+++ b/gdb/symtab.c
@@ -812,7 +812,7 @@ hash_demangled_name_entry (const void *data)
   const struct demangled_name_entry *e
     = (const struct demangled_name_entry *) data;
 
-  return fast_hash (e->mangled.data (), e->mangled.length ());
+  return gdb::string_view_hash () (e->mangled);
 }
 
 /* Equality function for the demangled name hash.  */
diff --git a/gdbsupport/common-utils.h b/gdbsupport/common-utils.h
index 31ab1a6..97dcb9f 100644
--- a/gdbsupport/common-utils.h
+++ b/gdbsupport/common-utils.h
@@ -209,4 +209,21 @@ fast_hash (const void *ptr, size_t len, unsigned int start_value = 0)
 #endif
 }
 
+namespace gdb
+{
+
+/* Hash type for gdb::string_view.
+
+   Even after we switch to C++17 and dump our string_view implementation, we
+   might want to keep this hash implementation if it's faster than std::hash
+   for std::string_view.  */
+
+struct string_view_hash
+{
+  std::size_t operator() (gdb::string_view view) const
+  {  return fast_hash (view.data (), view.length ()); }
+};
+
+} /* namespace gdb */
+
 #endif /* COMMON_COMMON_UTILS_H */