optlink on multicore machines

[Denis Koroskin]

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:29:19 +0400, Walter Bright  
<newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> After acquiring a mysterious virus that would randomly hang my Windows  
> box at 100% CPU but all the processes showed 0 runtime, it was time to  
> reinstall Windows. Since installing Windows is an all-day affair, I  
> decided it was time to upgrade my 7 year old hardware to multicore.
>
> Once I was up and running, I decided to run the D test suite. I  
> immediately discovered that optlink simply doesn't work on multicore.  
> The multithreading code in it was developed for a single core machine,  
> and multicore is different.
>
> I was able to fix it by running the command:
>
>     imagecfg -a 0x1 \dm\bin\link.exe
>
> imagecfg.exe is downloadable from the internet. This command patches the  
> executable so it only runs on one core.

Great to hear that.

Will the linker be updated in upcoming release, or are everyone suggested  
to read the newsgroups, download imagecfg and patch optlink manually?