On 8 January 2012 02:27, Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
> On 1/7/2012 6:00 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: > >> Will dmd still produce OMF or will it be changed to produce COFF? >> > > It will be irrelevant, as the linker will read whatever it puts out, and > the linker will read COFF. > > There is no reason why a linker cannot transparently read many object and > library file formats. I even want the linker to be able to read a DLL and > figure out how to interface it without needing to build a corresponding > import library. > > There's quite a bit that can be done that was impractical for linkers of > yore because of severe memory constraints. > I'd quite like to use the VisualC linker... so I hope this isn't a substitute for implementing COFF output to the compiler at some point.
