NAME
ranlib —
a.out archive (library)
table-of-contents format
SYNOPSIS
#include <ranlib.h>
DESCRIPTION
The archive table-of-contents command
ranlib creates a table
of contents for archives, containing object files, to be used by the
link-editor
ld(1). It operates on
archives created with the utility
ar(1).
The
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".
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.
The third part is a “long” followed by a string table. The long is
the size, in bytes of the string table.
SEE ALSO
ar(1),
ranlib(1)
BUGS
The <ranlib.h> header file, and the
ranlib manual page,
do not describe the table-of-contents used by ELF systems, which is that from
the
AT&T System V Release 4 UNIX
ABI.