eld Manual

TNS/E Native Object Files
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Tools That Work With Object Files
The following is a summary of what is in an archive. Horizontal lines separate pieces
of the archive. This example shows the case when there is a symbol table and a long
member name string space.
!<arch>
_______________________________
ar_hdr for the symbol table
the number of symbols in the symbol table
file offset for the member that defines the first symbol
file offset for the member that defines the second symbol
...
_______________________________
name of the first symbol
name of the second symbol
...
______________________________
ar_hdr for the long member name string space
the string space of long member names
______________________________
ar_hdr for the first member
contents of the first member
______________________________
ar_hdr for the second member
contents of the second member
...
Tools That Work With Object Files
Here is a list of some of the tools (i.e., customer products) that read and/or write object
files (or archives):
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Compilers and the assembler create object files.
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The linker (eld) reads and writes object files, and reads archives.
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enoft reads object files to display their contents.
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VPROC can read object files to print out version procedures (i.e., a very
special case of what NOFT does).
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The HP NonStop operating system operating system, including the runtime
loader (rld), reads object files to bring them into memory.