bugzilla 424 - Unexpected OPTLINK Termination - solved!

[Don]

Sergey Gromov wrote:
> Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:39:13 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> Optlink is written entirely in rather impenetrable assembler code, and 
>> is resistant to understanding and modification. Hence, over the last few 
>> months I've been very slowly converting it to C, function by function.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Once it is in C and working, it will be trivial to translate it to D and 
>> start rewriting it.
>>
>> Anyhow, during this process I stumbled upon what the problem was. 
> 
> That's definitely good news!
> 
> 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.

I hope you're making use of pragma's DDL code. He did so much work in 
making sense of the object file formats.