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| author | John Criswell <criswell@uiuc.edu> | 2004-12-10 15:51:16 +0000 |
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| committer | John Criswell <criswell@uiuc.edu> | 2004-12-10 15:51:16 +0000 |
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diff --git a/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-ar.pod b/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-ar.pod index 1c8d0abfb2..0253d4f921 100644 --- a/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-ar.pod +++ b/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-ar.pod @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ The B<llvm-ar> command can be used to I<read> both SVR4 and BSD style archive files. However, it cannot be used to write them. While the B<llvm-ar> command produces files that are I<almost> identical to the format used by other C<ar> implementations, it has two significant departures in order to make the -archive appropriate for LLVM. There are first departure is that B<llvm-ar> only +archive appropriate for LLVM. The first departure is that B<llvm-ar> only uses BSD4.4 style long path names (stored immediately after the header) and never contains a string table for long names. The second departure is that the symbol table is formated for efficient construction of an in-memory data @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ slash (/) character. B<llvm-ar> can compress the members of an archive to save space. The compression used depends on what's available on the platform and what choices the LLVM Compressor utility makes. It generally favors bzip2 but will select -between "no compression", bzip2 or zlib depending on what makes sense for the +between "no compression" or bzip2 depending on what makes sense for the file's content. =item I<Directory Recursion> @@ -229,9 +229,9 @@ a time stamp than the time stamp of the member in the archive. =item [z] When inserting or replacing any file in the archive, compress the file first. -The compression will attempt to use the zlib compression algorithm. This +This modifier is safe to use when (previously) compressed bytecode files are added to -the archive; the compress bytecode files will not be doubly compressed. +the archive; the compressed bytecode files will not be doubly compressed. =back @@ -342,9 +342,8 @@ This field provides the size of the file, in bytes, encoded as a decimal ASCII string. If the size field is negative (starts with a minus sign, 0x02D), then the archive member is stored in compressed form. The first byte of the archive member's data indicates the compression type used. A value of 0 (0x30) indicates -that no compression was used. A value of 1 (0x31) indicates that zlib -compression was used. A value of 2 (0x32) indicates that bzip2 compression was -used. +that no compression was used. A value of 2 (0x32) indicates that bzip2 +compression was used. =item fmag - char[2] |