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Re: ELF archiver string table
Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> writes:
> If you are talking about a tool like the POSIX "ar" command then it
> may interest you to know that the POSIX spec is fairly flexible. This
> is from the POSIX.1-2001 specification for the ar command:
>
> "The archive format is not described. It is recognized that
> there are several known ar formats, which are not compatible.
> The ar utility is included, however, to allow creation of
> archives that are intended for use only on one machine. The
> archive is specified as a file, and it can be moved as a file.
> This does allow an archive to be moved from one machine to
> another machine that uses the same implementation of ar."
But note that although POSIX does not specify the archive format, the
ELF ABI does specify it. See chapter 7 in the System V Application
Binary Interface here: http://www.sco.com/developers/devspecs/.
Ian