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                     36: .Dd May 10, 1991
                     37: .Dt RANLIB 5
                     38: .Os
                     39: .Sh NAME
                     40: .Nm ranlib
                     41: .Nd archive (library) table-of-contents format
                     42: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     43: .Fd #include <ranlib.h>
                     44: .Sh DESCRIPTION
                     45: The archive table-of-contents command
                     46: .Nm ranlib
                     47: creates a table of contents for archives, containing object files, to
                     48: be used by the link-editor
                     49: .Xr ld 1 .
                     50: It operates on archives created with the utility
                     51: .Xr ar 1 .
                     52: .Pp
                     53: The
1.3       aaron      54: .Nm ranlib
1.1       deraadt    55: function
                     56: prepends a new file to the archive which has three separate parts.
                     57: The first part is a standard archive header, which has a special name
1.4     ! aaron      58: field,
        !            59: .Dq __.SYMDEF .
1.1       deraadt    60: .Pp
1.4     ! aaron      61: The second part is a
        !            62: .Li long
        !            63: followed by a list of ranlib structures.
1.1       deraadt    64: The long is the size, in bytes, of the list of ranlib structures.
                     65: Each of the ranlib structures consists of a zero based offset into the
                     66: next section (a string table of symbols) and an offset from the beginning
                     67: of the archive to the start of the archive file which defines the symbol.
                     68: The actual number of ranlib structures is this number divided by the size
                     69: of an individual ranlib structure.
                     70: .Pp
1.4     ! aaron      71: The third part is a
        !            72: .Li long
        !            73: followed by a string table.
1.1       deraadt    74: The long is the size, in bytes of the string table.
                     75: .Sh SEE ALSO
                     76: .Xr ar 1 ,
                     77: .Xr ranlib 1