Removing Version Information From An Archive; Checking Version Number - Analog Devices VisualDSP++ 3.5 Manual

The archiver version that created the archive is stored in
and is available using the
the archive to be written have been executed since the last version infor-
mation was written, these commands appear as part of special version
information called "
has been done on the archive since the last update of the version
information.

Removing Version Information from an Archive

Every operation has a special form of switch that can cause an archive to
be written and request that the version information is not written to the
archive. Version information already in the archive would be lost. Adding
" " (no version) to a command strips version information. For example,
nv
elfar –anv lib.dlb new.doj
elfar –dnv lib.dlb *
In addition, a special form of the
which take no argument, can be used for stripping version information
from an archive:
elfar –tnv lib.dlb

Checking Version Number

You can have version numbers conform to a strict format. The archiver
will confirm that version numbers given on the command line conform to
a format (three numbers separated by "."). The
nn.nn.nn
Table 6-2 on page
sion number is not in this form. The check ensures that the version
number starts with a number in that format.
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switch. Also, if any operations that caused
–pva
". The log prints a line for every command that
__log
switch (see
–t
// only effect is to remove version info
6-12) causes the archiver to raise a warning if the ver-
Archiver
__version.doj
Table 6-2 on page
switch (see
–twc
6-12),
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