On Wed, Sep 24, 2014, at 13:24, Mark Longridge wrote:
ar t /usr/lib/libc.a | grep ecvt
...doesn't find ecvt.
But if you do:
grep ecvt /usr/lib/libc.a
then
Binary file /usr/lib/libc.a matches
$ objdump -t libc.a
...
efgcvt.o: file format elf64-x86-64
SYMBOL TABLE:
...
00000000000000b0 g F .text 000000000000001e ecvt
...
On a system without a tool like objdump, the next logical step would be
ar x.