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37 .Nd a.out archive (library) table-of-contents format
41 The archive table-of-contents command
43 creates a table of contents for archives, containing object files, to
44 be used by the link-editor
46 It operates on archives created with the utility
52 prepends a new file to the archive which has three separate parts.
53 The first part is a standard archive header, which has a special name
58 followed by a list of ranlib structures.
59 The long is the size, in bytes, of the list of ranlib structures.
60 Each of the ranlib structures consists of a zero based offset into the
61 next section (a string table of symbols) and an offset from the beginning
62 of the archive to the start of the archive file which defines the symbol.
63 The actual number of ranlib structures is this number divided by the size
64 of an individual ranlib structure.
68 followed by a string table.
69 The long is the size, in bytes of the string table.
75 .Tn \*[Lt]ranlib.h\*[Gt]
78 manual page, do not describe the table-of-contents used by ELF systems, which