On Thursday, 3 May 2012 at 23:47:26 UTC, Trass3r wrote:
Imho changing dmd to use COFF (incl. 64 support) instead of that crappy OMF would be more beneficial than yet another linker.
I'd love to, but i don't think i can spend a whole summer doing that ;)
If you do write a linker then make it cross-platform right from the start; and modular so it can support all object file formats.
I intend to first make something that works and gather experience and get a firm graps of all the quirks of writing a linker first. And there seems to be nice features such as dead code elimination and template magic to consider as well. Would be a shame to limit the capabilities by making the design to well defined in the beginning of the project, i think. So i'll defer the modularity & cross-platforminess for now but keep it in mind for the long run :)
