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diff --git a/static/netbsd/man5/ranlib.5 b/static/netbsd/man5/ranlib.5 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..18eb84df --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man5/ranlib.5 @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: ranlib.5,v 1.7 2017/07/03 21:30:59 wiz Exp $ +.\" +.\" 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. 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. +.\" +.\" 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 +.In 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 . +.Pp +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". +.Pp +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. +.Pp +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. |
