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Re: ar thin archive format


Hi Ian,

Many thanks!

That answers what I was looking for :)

Cheers,
Tamar

---- On Sat, 04 Jun 2016 16:42:23 +0200 Ian Lance Taylor<iant@google.com> wrote ---- 
 > On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 1:58 AM, Tamar Christina <tamar@zhox.com> wrote: 
 > > 
 > > I'm trying to find information on the format of thin archives but can't seem to find anything and 
 > > Objdump doesn't recognize the format. 
 > > 
 > > Does someone know If this exists or where I should look in the code for the= 
 > >  implementation? 
 >  
 > A thin archive looks exactly look a normal archive, except that the 
 > magic string is different (it's !<thin>&#92;n) and the file contents are 
 > omitted.  The idea is that you look at the archive header to find the 
 > file name (probably an extended name, of course) and then read the 
 > file in the file system. 
 >  
 > Cary introduced them in 
 > https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2008-03/msg00150.html . 
 >  
 > Ian 
 > 
 > 



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