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+; This is not an assembly file, this is just to run the test.
+; The test verifies that llvm-ar produces a binary output.
+
+;RUN: llvm-ar p %p/GNU.a very_long_bytecode_file_name.bc | cmp -s %p/very_long_bytecode_file_name.bc -