GSOC Linker project

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-05-07 17:41, Pierre LeMoine wrote:
> On Monday, 7 May 2012 at 12:36:18 UTC, Roald Ribe wrote:
>> If you are interested in getting results rather than reinventing the
>> wheel,
>> I would advice you to have a look at the openwatcom.org wlink, and the
>> forked jwlink as a starting point. The linker is open source, written in
>> C and has user documentation (not source doc unfortunately).
>>
>> Roald
>
> Thanks for the tip! :)
> What level of reinventing the wheel are we talking about? Did you
> suggest i fork (j)wlink or somesuch, or that i take a look at how it's
> implemented instead of reinventing from scratch? :)
> And does anyone know if wlink is able to link programs from dmd? I made
> a half-hearted attempt myself, but didn't manage to get it to work ;p
>
> /Pierre

Perhaps you could have a look at "gold" as well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_%28linker%29

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg