Editing Ar (Unix) (section)

===== Windows variant =====
The Windows (PE/COFF) variant is based on the SysV/GNU variant. The first entry "/" has the same layout as the SysV/GNU symbol table. The second entry is another "/", a Microsoft extension that stores an extended symbol cross-reference table. This one is sorted and uses little-endian integers.<ref name="Levine99"/><ref>{{Citation
 |url=http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0498/hood0498.aspx
 |first=Matt |last=Pietrek |author-link=Matt Pietrek
 |title=Under The Hood
 |work=Microsoft Systems Journal
 |date=April 1998
 |access-date=2014-08-23
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070624034732/https://www.microsoft.com/msj/0498/hood0498.aspx
 |archive-date=2007-06-24
}}</ref> The third entry is the optional "//" long name data as in SysV/GNU.<ref>{{cite web |title=llvm-mirror/llvm: archive.cpp (format detection) |url=https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/ad1310e/lib/Object/Archive.cpp#L593-L610 |website=GitHub |access-date=10 February 2020 |language=en}}</ref>