On 13/02/11 13:36, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Hi,
I am sorry, but I don't belive it.
Many other systems programming languages that atempted to displace C and
C++, have
the toolchain built in its languages, after the compilers were bootstrapped,
as anyone
with enough compiler knowledge will surely tell you.
And D's linker must first be written in C, to make it easy to rewrite in D?!
A linker is not science fiction, it is just a program that binds object
files and libraries together
to produce an executable. Any programming language able to manipulate files
and binary
data, can be used to create a linker.
--
Paulo
I believe the issue is that OPTLINK is written in highly optimised
hand-written assembly, and as such a direct port to D is impossible. As
the linker is such a delicate tool (even a minor change can have major
repucussions), the port needs to be as direct as possible - sure, it
could be ported directly to D, but it will more than likely break in the
process. See also
http://www.drdobbs.com/blog/archives/2009/11/assembler_to_c.html
--
Robert
http://octarineparrot.com/
