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Implements a simple parser and extractor for a Unix Archive.
There are two “common” formats: BSD and SysV
This crate currently only implements the SysV version, which essentially postfixes all names in the archive with a / as a sigil for the end of the name, and uses a special symbol index for looking up symbols faster.
Structs
An in-memory representation of a parsed Unix Archive
The special index member signified by the name
'/'.
The data element contains a list of symbol indexes and symbol names, giving their offsets
into the archive for a given name.Represents a single entry in the archive
A Unix Archive Header - meta data for the file/byte blob/whatever that follows exactly after.
All data is right-padded with spaces ASCII
0x20. The Binary layout is as follows: