Mike Long <mikel@shore.net> writes:

> 
> It doesn't take that much.  ar(1) produces garbage archives if fed
> object files owned by someone with a 6+ digit UID.  See <ar.h>.

Sigh.

I've added code to truncate the IDs to 65535.  Nothing appears to
actually *use* the stored IDs, other than to print them out, so this
shouldn't be a big deal.