GSOC Linker project

[foobar]

On Friday, 4 May 2012 at 17:52:54 UTC, simendsjo wrote:
> On Fri, 04 May 2012 18:57:44 +0200, foobar <foo at bar.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, 3 May 2012 at 23:47:26 UTC, Trass3r wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>
>> How about augmenting the object format so that libraries would 
>> be self contained and would not require additional .di files? 
>> Is this possible optlink by e.g. adding special sections that 
>> would be otherwise ignored?
>>
>> I think that's what Go did in their linker but I don't know 
>> what format they use, if it's something specific to Go or 
>> general.
>>
>
> http://dsource.org/projects/ddl

This is D1 only and AFAIK was abandoned long ago.
Was a very good idea though and should be adopted by "official" D 
tool chain.