The member table member has a zero-length name. The array of offsets into the archive file. The length is 12 times the number of members. The name string table. The string table contains the same number of strings as offsets.
All strings are null-terminated.
Each offset from the array corresponds sequentially to a name in the string table. This global symbol table locates file members that define global symbols. The strip command deletes the global symbol table from the archive. The global symbol table member has a zero-length name. The ar command automatically creates and updates, but does not list the global symbol table.