[WORK] std.file.update function

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2016-09-19 07:16, Walter Bright wrote:

> I'd love to design our own high speed formats, but then they'd be
> incompatible with everybody else's.

You already mentioned in an other post [1] that the compiler could do 
the linking as well. In that case you would need to write some form of 
linker. Then I suggest to develop the linker as a library, supporting 
all formats DMD currently supports. The library can be used both 
directly from DMD and to build an external linker. When we have our own 
linker we could create our own format too without having to worry about 
compatibility.

I guess we need to create other tools for the new format as well, like 
object dumpers. But I assume that's a natural thing to do anyway.

Bundle that with something like musl libc and we will have our own 
complete tool chain. It would also be easier to add support for 
cross-compiling.

[1] http://forum.dlang.org/post/nrnsn7$1h3k$1@digitalmars.com

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/Jacob Carlborg