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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.8, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <!-- This manual is for GNU Texinfo (version 6.8, 8 June 2021), a documentation system that can produce both online information and a printed manual from a single source using semantic markup. Copyright (C) 1988, 1990-1993, 1995-1999, 2001-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". --> <title>Info Format Indirect Table (GNU Texinfo 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="Info Format Indirect Table (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="Info Format Indirect Table (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="texi2any"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> <link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" rel="index" title="Command and Variable Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Info-Format-General-Layout.html" rel="up" title="Info Format General Layout"> <link href="Info-Format-Tag-Table.html" rel="next" title="Info Format Tag Table"> <link href="Info-Format-Preamble.html" rel="prev" title="Info Format Preamble"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.copiable-anchor {visibility: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 0em} a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} span:hover a.copiable-anchor {visibility: visible} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> </head> <body lang="en"> <div class="subsection" id="Info-Format-Indirect-Table"> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="Info-Format-Tag-Table.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Info Format: Tag Table</a>, Previous: <a href="Info-Format-Preamble.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Info Format: Preamble</a>, Up: <a href="Info-Format-General-Layout.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Info Format General Layout</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <span id="Info-Format_003a-Indirect-Table"></span><h4 class="subsection">F.1.3 Info Format: Indirect Table</h4> <span id="index-Indirect-table_002c-in-Info-format"></span> <div class="example"> <pre class="example"> <indirect table> = <separator> Indirect: (<filename>: <bytepos>)* </pre></div> <p>The indirect table is written to the main file in the case of split output only. It specifies, as a decimal integer, the starting byte position (zero-based) that the first node of each subfile would have if the subfiles were concatenated together in order, not including the top-level file. The first node of actual content is pointed to by the first entry. </p> <p>As an example, suppose split output is generated for the GDB manual. The top-level file <samp>gdb.info</samp> will contain something like this: </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example"><separator> Indirect: gdb.info-1: 1878 gdb.info-2: 295733 ... </pre></div> <p>This tells Info viewers that the first node of the manual occurs at byte 1878 of the file <samp>gdb.info-1</samp> (which would be after that file’s preamble.) The first node in the <samp>gdb.info-2</samp> subfile would start at byte 295733 if <samp>gdb.info-2</samp> were appended to <samp>gdb.info-1</samp>, including any preamble sections in both files. </p> <p>Unfortunately, Info-creating programs such as <code>makeinfo</code> have not always implemented these rules perfectly, due to various bugs and oversights. Therefore, robust Info viewers should fall back to searching “nearby” the given position for a node, instead of giving up immediately if the position is not exactly at a node beginning. </p> </div> </body> </html>