tooling quality and some random rant

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:26:50 +0200, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> golgeliyele wrote:
>> I don't think C++ and gcc set a good bar here.
>
> Short of writing our own linker, we're a bit stuck with what ld does.

That's not true. The compiler has knowledge of what symbols will be passed  
to the linker, and can display its own, much nicer error messages. I've  
mentioned this in our previous discussion on this topic.

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  Vladimir                            mailto:vladimir at thecybershadow.net