The Linker is not a Magical Program

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Thu Sep 3 19:12:31 PDT 2009


grauzone wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> grauzone wrote:
>>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>>> Jeremie Pelletier wrote:
>>>>> Now if I only can find enough documentation about OMF to write a COFF
>>>>> to OMF converter..
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/Omfg.pdf
>>>
>>> What I always wanted to know: besides OPTLINK, is there an OMF linker 
>>> that can link D programs?
>>>
>>> I couldn't find one.
>>
>> Maybe the watcom one. But I've never tried it.
> 
> I know someone who tried sufficiently hard, but failed. But I don't 
> remember what exactly was the problem.

What originally motivated me to get our own linker was the erratic 
reliability of other ones.



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