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3.0 KiB
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82 lines
3.0 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: ranlib.5,v 1.6 2003/08/07 10:31:17 agc Exp $
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
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.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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.\" without specific prior written permission.
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.\"
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
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.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
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.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
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.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
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.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
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.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
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.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
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.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" from: @(#)ranlib.5.5 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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.\"
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.Dd June 6, 1993
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.Dt RANLIB 5
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm ranlib
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.Nd a.out archive (library) table-of-contents format
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In ranlib.h
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The archive table-of-contents command
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.Nm
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creates a table of contents for archives, containing object files, to
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be used by the link-editor
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.Xr ld 1 .
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It operates on archives created with the utility
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.Xr ar 1 .
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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function
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prepends a new file to the archive which has three separate parts.
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The first part is a standard archive header, which has a special name
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field, "__.SYMDEF".
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.Pp
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The second part is a
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.Dq long
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followed by a list of ranlib structures.
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The long is the size, in bytes, of the list of ranlib structures.
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Each of the ranlib structures consists of a zero based offset into the
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next section (a string table of symbols) and an offset from the beginning
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of the archive to the start of the archive file which defines the symbol.
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The actual number of ranlib structures is this number divided by the size
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of an individual ranlib structure.
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.Pp
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The third part is a
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.Dq long
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followed by a string table.
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The long is the size, in bytes of the string table.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr ar 1 ,
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.Xr ranlib 1
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.Sh BUGS
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The
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.Tn \*[Lt]ranlib.h\*[Gt]
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header file, and the
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.Nm
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manual page, do not describe the table-of-contents used by ELF systems, which
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is that from the
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.At V.4
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ABI.
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