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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