Seemingly patternless optlink premature termination

[jkpl via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 8 January 2017 at 19:15:49 UTC, Jerry wrote:
> On Sunday, 8 January 2017 at 18:49:50 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> P.S. Isn't it maddening that Windows doesn't allow copying the 
>> data from a message window?
>
> A bit more maddening that D is still trying to support optlink, 
> a linker that hasn't seen a commit in 2 years when it is hardly 
> bug free.

Your comment is not pertinent. The object format doesn't change 
so the linker doesn't need to be updated. The problem here seems 
to be a bug. Until someone finds it, it can't be fixed.