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authorBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2003-02-13 20:13:22 +0000
committerBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2009-06-23 12:08:58 +0200
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-'.\" Copyright (C) 1995 Free Software Foundation
-'.\" This file is part of GNU C Library.
-'.\"
-'.\" Author: Ulrich Drepper
-'.\"
-.TH MSGFMT 5 "GNU C Library" "FSF"
-.SH NAME
-msgfmt \- format of protable object files and message object files
-.SH DESCRIPTION
-The
-.IR msgfmt
-program from a set of portable object files another set of files, which are
-machine dependend coded. The special version for GNU msgfmt is
-carefully designed to be readable in whatever byte order.
-.SH Input file format
-(Description of input file format.)
-.SH Output file format
-The message object files consist of three parts:
-.nf
- 1. Header with magic number etc.
- 2. Table with offsets to data part.
- 3. Data part with all the strings.
-.fi
-.PP
-.BR Header.
-The header consists of two 32-bit integer. The first is a magic number whose
-value is
-.B 0x950412DE.
-When the object file is used and the magic number has the reverse byte order
-one can still use it. Only all following multi-byte integers must be
-changed in byte order.
-.PP
-The second integer gives the number entries with
-.B unique
-hash values. The hash value has to be computed by the same function as in
-.I msgfmt
-itself.
-.BR Offsettable.
-