[RFC] Adding a real HashTable implementation to gnulib

[Darshit Shah]

I recently tried to use the hash table implementation in gnulib which resides
in the "hash" module. However, I quickly realised that the hash table in gnulib
seems to be what is otherwise popularly known as a hash set, i.e., it supports
storing and retrieving just values from the structure. 

On the other hand, a hash table is usually expected to have a key->value
mapping that is stored.

Within GNU Wget, we have a fairly portable version of a hash table implemented
which I think would be a good addition for gnulib. What do you think?

If I get a positive response here, I could extract that code and turn it into a
hash table module for gnulib. We should be able to reuse some part of the
existing code in "hash.c" for this purpose as well


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Thanking You,
Darshit Shah
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