bugzilla 424 - Unexpected OPTLINK Termination - solved!

[Walter Bright]

Sergey Gromov wrote:
> Actually, I'm slowly working on a D linker myself.  Writing it in D,
> from scratch.  My goal is to allow linking a mix of OMF and COFF objects
> and libraries into the same executable, obviating the need for any
> conversion.  I wonder if it's feasible to continue my work.  I'm just a
> couple baby steps beyond the rough design stage.
> 
> Well, probably I'll continue anyway, as long as I've got the courage.  I
> like to re-invent wheels after all.

Building a linker itself is probably not too useful, given that it'll be 
hard to compete with optlink. What would be cool, though, is a linker 
that is able to do more advanced things - like organizing the code to 
minimize page loading, eliminating functions that are identical except 
for the name, etc.