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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man5/ranlib.5 b/static/openbsd/man5/ranlib.5 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4785c836 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man5/ranlib.5 @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: ranlib.5,v 1.3 2022/09/11 06:38:11 jmc Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 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 5.2 (Berkeley) 5/10/91 +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: September 11 2022 $ +.Dt RANLIB 5 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm ranlib +.Nd archive (library) table-of-contents format +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In 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, +.Dq __.SYMDEF . +.Pp +The second part is a +.Vt 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 +.Vt 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 |
