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AMD would like to add new functionality to ranlib (and later ar and nm) and to the bits of LLVM Core that read (and later write) archives. Herewith a terse summary of the change, which we want to improve support of OpenCL for multiple GPUs in a single run-time. Conceptually, a serialized archive is really 2 pieces: a few header members and a set of normal file members. There are no constraints on