question: private static int computeHashCode ( int seed , Object ... objects ) { if ( objects == null || objects . length == 0 ) { return seed * HashCode . PRIME ; } int hc = seed ; for ( Object object : objects ) { hc = HashCode . PRIME * hc ; if ( object instanceof byte [ ] ) { hc += Arrays . hashCode ( ( byte [ ] ) object ) ; } else if ( object instanceof boolean [ ] ) { hc += Arrays . hashCode ( ( boolean [ ] ) object ) ; } else if ( object instanceof short [ ] ) { hc += Arrays . hashCode ( ( short [ ] ) object ) ; } else if ( object instanceof int [ ] ) { hc += Arrays . hashCode ( ( int [ ] ) object ) ; } else if ( object instanceof long [ ] ) { hc += Arrays . hashCode ( ( long [ ] ) object ) ; } else if ( object instanceof float [ ] ) { hc += Arrays . hashCode ( ( float [ ] ) object ) ; } else if ( object instanceof double [ ] ) { hc += Arrays . hashCode ( ( double [ ] ) object ) ; } else if ( object instanceof char [ ] ) { hc += Arrays . hashCode ( ( char [ ] ) object ) ; } else if ( object instanceof Object [ ] ) { hc += Arrays . hashCode ( ( Object [ ] ) object ) ; } else if ( object != null ) { hc += object . hashCode ( ) ; } } return hc ; }
target:  Compute a combined hash code from the supplied objects using the supplied seed.