Converting Optlink from Assembler to C

[Spacen Jasset]

Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:02:13 +0200, Walter Bright 
> <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
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>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a9lxo/assembler_to_c/
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> The link posted on reddit in broken: "You are not authorised to view 
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> Broken  link: 
> http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&amp;show=Assembler-to-C.html&amp;Itemid=29 
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> Working link: 
> http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Assembler-to-C.html&Itemid=29 
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> 
> Note the HTML entities...
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The article doesn't really say why optlink? Why not use another linker? 
(which may already be written in c)