tooling quality and some random rant

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-02-13 19:42, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> 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.
>

Would the compiler be able to figure out if you build a library or an 
executable?

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg