Annotation of src/usr.bin/ranlib/ranlib.5, Revision 1.2
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35: .Dd May 10, 1991
36: .Dt RANLIB 5
37: .Os
38: .Sh NAME
39: .Nm ranlib
40: .Nd archive (library) table-of-contents format
41: .Sh SYNOPSIS
42: .Fd #include <ranlib.h>
43: .Sh DESCRIPTION
44: The archive table-of-contents command
45: .Nm ranlib
46: creates a table of contents for archives, containing object files, to
47: be used by the link-editor
48: .Xr ld 1 .
49: It operates on archives created with the utility
50: .Xr ar 1 .
51: .Pp
52: The
53: .Nm Ranlib
54: function
55: prepends a new file to the archive which has three separate parts.
56: The first part is a standard archive header, which has a special name
57: field, "__.SYMDEF".
58: .Pp
59: The second part is a ``long'' followed by a list of ranlib structures.
60: The long is the size, in bytes, of the list of ranlib structures.
61: Each of the ranlib structures consists of a zero based offset into the
62: next section (a string table of symbols) and an offset from the beginning
63: of the archive to the start of the archive file which defines the symbol.
64: The actual number of ranlib structures is this number divided by the size
65: of an individual ranlib structure.
66: .Pp
67: The third part is a ``long'' followed by a string table.
68: The long is the size, in bytes of the string table.
69: .Sh SEE ALSO
70: .Xr ar 1 ,
71: .Xr ranlib 1