GSOC Linker project

[Trass3r]

> I'm interested in starting a project to make a linker besides optlink  
> for dmd on windows.

Imho changing dmd to use COFF (incl. 64 support) instead of that crappy  
OMF would be more beneficial than yet another linker.


> My vision is to create a linker in a relatively modern language (D) and  
> to release the project as open source.

If you do write a linker then make it cross-platform right from the start;  
and modular so it can support all object file formats.