bugzilla 424 - Unexpected OPTLINK Termination - solved!

[Walter Bright]

grauzone wrote:
> And during all that time, GNU ld worked just fine, completely without 
> bugs! I had to add hacks to my code to make it linkable on Windows.

I've spent many hours trying to find workarounds for ld problems and 
undocumented behaviors. The prime suspect in dmd not working on Snow 
Leopard is a change in the linker behavior.


> And no, GNU ld is not too slow. The most time during building is wasted 
> due to not having _working_ incremental building (Tom S discussed the 
> issues about that with you).

Do you mean incremental linking or incremental compiling?


> Additionally, I prefer a slow, working 
> linker over a fast, crashing one.

Of course. No argument there.