dr@Marvin:~/Abby/XS/Mytest/myclass$ objdump  -p myclass.o | grep MyClass
dr@Marvin:~/Abby/XS/Mytest/myclass$ objdump  -p libmyclass.a | grep MyClass
dr@Marvin:~/Abby/XS/Mytest/myclass$ objdump  -p libmyclass.a 
In archive libmyclass.a:

myclass.o:     file format elf32-i386


unitTest.o:     file format elf32-i386
dr@Marvin:~/Abby/XS/Mytest/myclass$ objdump  -p myclass.o
myclass.o:     file format elf32-i386