A very fast linker to replace gcc's ld

[deadalnix]

On Saturday, 5 April 2014 at 22:30:28 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> Dmd already uses whatever the system linker is and on Arch 
> that's gold.  The Android NDK also uses gold by default, though 
> they also provide the original bfd ld and a newer llvm-based 
> linker started by MediaTek, mclinker:
>
> https://code.google.com/p/mclinker/

DMD emit object file that, depending on the version of Gold:
  - Will produce broken binaries.
  - Will fail with cryptic internal error;

I've tried to patch Gold, to accept dmd's file, but eventually 
ran out of time. If one want to take over that work I can point 
some places in Gold's source code to look at. I'd also not be 
that surprised that DMD does emit somthing weird in its object 
files.