Choice of the value in the HashSection

[slava-aes]

Hi, in the HashSection function you wrote:

hash = *str + (hash << 6) + (hash << 16) - hash;

just out of curiosity is there anything special about the numbers 6 and 16?

[revsic]

Sorry for my late reply, I borrow the codes from under url, sdbm hash.
http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~oz/hash.html