From: johnh@psych.usyd.edu.au (John Holden)
Subject: [pups] extract old archive format?
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 12:40:44 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201004090240.o392eigZ402010@psychwarp.psych.usyd.edu.au> (raw)
> Well I found the ar specification (in ar.5 not ar.1).
>
> struct ar_hdr {
> char ar_name[14];
> long ar_date;
> char ar_uid;
> char ar_gid;
> int ar_mode;
> long ar_size;
> };
Endian should not be a problem on a Intel/AMD processor. More likely your C
compiler is padding out the array for alignment. Try a '-fpack-struct' or
more safely, read the elements individually rather than a structure.
PS
To check, see what 'sizeof (struct ar_hdr_)' returns.
John
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