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1.7     ! jmc        32: .Dd $Mdocdate$
1.1       deraadt    33: .Dt RANLIB 5
                     34: .Os
                     35: .Sh NAME
                     36: .Nm ranlib
                     37: .Nd archive (library) table-of-contents format
                     38: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     39: .Fd #include <ranlib.h>
                     40: .Sh DESCRIPTION
                     41: The archive table-of-contents command
                     42: .Nm ranlib
                     43: creates a table of contents for archives, containing object files, to
                     44: be used by the link-editor
                     45: .Xr ld 1 .
                     46: It operates on archives created with the utility
                     47: .Xr ar 1 .
                     48: .Pp
                     49: The
1.3       aaron      50: .Nm ranlib
1.1       deraadt    51: function
                     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
1.4       aaron      54: field,
                     55: .Dq __.SYMDEF .
1.1       deraadt    56: .Pp
1.4       aaron      57: The second part is a
                     58: .Li long
                     59: followed by a list of ranlib structures.
1.1       deraadt    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
1.4       aaron      67: The third part is a
                     68: .Li long
                     69: followed by a string table.
1.5       jmc        70: The long is the size, in bytes, of the string table.
1.1       deraadt    71: .Sh SEE ALSO
                     72: .Xr ar 1 ,
                     73: .Xr ranlib 1