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author | rgrimes <rgrimes@FreeBSD.org> | 1994-05-27 12:33:43 +0000 |
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committer | rgrimes <rgrimes@FreeBSD.org> | 1994-05-27 12:33:43 +0000 |
commit | f9ab90d9d6d02989a075d0f0074496d5b1045e4b (patch) | |
tree | add7e996bac5289cdc55e6935750c352505560a9 /usr.bin/ranlib/ranlib.5.5 | |
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diff --git a/usr.bin/ranlib/ranlib.5.5 b/usr.bin/ranlib/ranlib.5.5 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e953c51 --- /dev/null +++ b/usr.bin/ranlib/ranlib.5.5 @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by the University of +.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)ranlib.5.5 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 +.\" +.Dd June 6, 1993 +.Dt RANLIB 5 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm ranlib +.Nd archive (library) table-of-contents format +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Fd #include <ranlib.h> +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The archive table-of-contents command +.Nm ranlib +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 . +.Pp +The +.Nm Ranlib +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". +.Pp +The second part is a ``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. +.Pp +The third part is a ``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 |