A very fast linker to replace gcc's ld

[Asman01]

On Sunday, 6 April 2014 at 00:26:12 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> 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;

Why that?

>
> 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.

By weird do you mean gcc-specific?