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Re: Noob question about .a files
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Re: Noob question about .a files


  • Subject: Re: Noob question about .a files
  • From: Sean McBride <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:03:56 -0400
  • Organization: Rogue Research Inc.

On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:50:35 -0400, Eric E. Dolecki said:

>I have a project that compiles fine, but I get a slew of warnings about
>depreciated stuff in a few .a files in the project. I don't know what .a
>files are (assembly?)

See:
<http://filext.com/file-extension/a>

Probably a static lib.

What are the warnings?

> - how can i edit such files with Xcode? It shows as a
>binary file (I think)?

They aren't text, so you can't "edit" them.  See 'man nm' and 'man otool' is you want to examine them though.

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Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada


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