On 3/8/2013 12:50 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
If we have our own linker for every supported platform and format I pretty sure
that we can take advantage of that and come up with features not possible using
other linkers.
For example, storing .di files directly in the object file. This has also been
suggested before.
Sure, but who is going to do the work?
BTW, we did come up with our librarian (it's built in to dmd) and it works great
- enabling simple, smooth handling of libraries in a way that no other similar
language does. Notice, though, there are 4 completely distinct code bases to
support it, for the 4 main platforms. The librarian is a simple program, but
linkers are much more complex.
