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from: @(#)ranlib.5.5 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
.Dd June 6, 1993 .Dt RANLIB 5 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm ranlib .Nd a.out archive (library) table-of-contents format .Sh SYNOPSIS n ranlib.h .Sh DESCRIPTION The archive table-of-contents command .Nm creates a table of contents for archives, containing object files, to be used by the link-editor .Xr ld 1 . It operates on archives created with the utility .Xr ar 1 .
p The .Nm function prepends a new file to the archive which has three separate parts. The first part is a standard archive header, which has a special name field, "__.SYMDEF".
p The second part is a .Dq long followed by a list of ranlib structures. The long is the size, in bytes, of the list of ranlib structures. Each of the ranlib structures consists of a zero based offset into the next section (a string table of symbols) and an offset from the beginning of the archive to the start of the archive file which defines the symbol. The actual number of ranlib structures is this number divided by the size of an individual ranlib structure.
p The third part is a .Dq long followed by a string table. The long is the size, in bytes of the string table. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr ar 1 , .Xr ranlib 1 .Sh BUGS The .Tn <ranlib.h> header file, and the .Nm manual page, do not describe the table-of-contents used by ELF systems, which is that from the .At V.4 ABI.