bugzilla 424 - Unexpected OPTLINK Termination - solved!

[Bill Baxter]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Leandro Lucarella <llucax at gmail.com> wrote:
> grauzone, el  4 de noviembre a las 17:23 me escribiste:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>> >Anyhow, during this process I stumbled upon what the problem was.
>> >Optlink was apparently trying to account for some Borland obscure
>> >extension to the OMF. Remove this, and it works, although
>> >presumably it will no longer link Borland object files (who
>> >cares!).
>>
>> And during all that time, GNU ld worked just fine, completely
>> without bugs! I had to add hacks to my code to make it linkable on
>> Windows.
>>
>> And no, GNU ld is not too slow.
>
> And if you really find it slow, GNU Gold (done by Google) is *much*
> faster.

Interesting.

Detailed series of 20 blog posts by the author here:

http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/38
http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/39
...
http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/57

Looks like interesting reading.

--bb