Optlink is on github

[Dmitry Olshansky]

08-Mar-2013 12:50, Jacob Carlborg пишет:
> On 2013-03-08 04:41, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> The other thing is, we just don't have a need for our own linker for any
>> platform other than win32. So what's the cost benefit moving forward? I
>> think it's easier to just fix optlink's bugs.
>
> If we have our own linker for every supported platform and format I
> pretty sure that we can take advantage of that and come up with features
> not possible using other linkers.

Yes, along with storing meta-data such as pure, nothrow etc. Mangling 
does it but in a such a backward way...
But it would always have to maintain backwards compatibility or simple 
conversion to this format.

> For example, storing .di files directly in the object file. This has
> also been suggested before.
>


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Dmitry Olshansky