[PATCH] D100651: [AIX] Support of Big archive (read)

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EGuesnet added inline comments.


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Comment at: llvm/test/Object/archive-big-extract.test:1
+## Test extracting an archive created by AIX ar (Big Archive).
+RUN: llvm-ar p %p/Inputs/bigFormat.a evenlen | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=AIXBIG --implicit-check-not={{.}}
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Esme wrote:
> Can you please add the command of creating the ar file to the comment? Base on this patch, I am trying to enable tools (e.g. llvm-readobj) for ar format, but I am getting an error from `BigArchiveMemberHeader::getSize()` when applying this patch. 
> 
> ```
> # Create the ar file under AIX
> $ ar -v -q 1.a 1.o
> $ llvm-ar p 1.a evenlen
> llvm-ar: error: unable to load '2.a': truncated or malformed archive (characters in size field in archive header are not all decimal numbers: '\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\0005892' for archive member header at offset 128)
> ```
> 
Hi @Esme ,
I just procede as:
```
$ # On AIX
$ echo evenlen > evenlen
$ ar -v -q 1.a evenlen
$ # On any server
$ llvm-ar p 1.a evenlen
evenlen
```

As your error message is related to 2.a, I think there is something wrong to reproduce your error.


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