From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: johnh@psych.usyd.edu.au (John Holden)
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 12:40:44 +1000 (EST)
Subject: [pups] extract old archive format?
Message-ID: <201004090240.o392eigZ402010@psychwarp.psych.usyd.edu.au>


> 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