 In addition to this, each type of archive might have 
its own information.  For example, native binary archives include information about 
sizes of native types and endianess to gracefully handle the case where it has been
erroneously assumed that such an archive is portable across platforms.  In some cases, 
where this extra overhead might be considered objectionable, it can be suppressed with the
<code style="white-space: normal">no_header</code> flag.
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In some cases, an archive may alter (and later r