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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
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Subject: FreeBSD-2.0R: ar/ranlib problems with certain object files
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For some object file in archives created with `ar rv`, the string
structure in ar_hdr seems to be destroyed. It seems that the first
char in the structure is left out and the rest is misplaced (1 char
forward).

Example, just pulled out the whole structure as string:

This entry seems OK:

>  ar_name '#1/29           796989747   0     0     100644  698       `
> '
>  ar_date '796989747   0     0     100644  698       `
> '
>  ar_uid  '0     0     100644  698       `
> '
>  ar_gid  '0     100644  698       `
> '
>  ar_mode '100644  698       `
> '
>  ar_size '698       `
> '
>  ar_fmag '`
> '

This is the next entry in the same file. As you can see, the whole
string is misplaced. ranlib finannly fails when checking ar_fmag.

>  ar_name '1/27           796987708   0     0     100644  381       `
> d'
>  ar_date '96987708   0     0     100644  381       `
> d'
>  ar_uid  '     0     100644  381       `
> d'
>  ar_gid  '     100644  381       `
> d'
>  ar_mode '00644  381       `
> d'
>  ar_size '81       `
> d'
>  ar_fmag '
> d'

What is the problem here? Do you have a fix?

The sources in question are Mach4-sources, but I've seen the same
problem before (building gcc and ObjC-Tools).

Thanks for any help.

Martin
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