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Old 07-18-2008
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overhead in the archive

Hi everyone,

I am currently trying to work out the size overhead in the library archive.
The total size of all my objects file is about 100KB. However, when I package them into the archive (libXX.a), the size gets boosted up to 200KB. I want to know what exact is that 100KB overhead. I tried with the "objdump". The only thing extra I can find is the comment field under each object file. They are only about 7KB in total. Is there a way to browse the full content of the library? or if anyone knows what exact this overhead is?


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How are you creating your static library? Using ar and ranlib? If this is the case do a web search for "ar file format".
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