Mark Mitchell <m...@codesourcery.com> writes: > A lot of this is also historical; gcc/cc1/as/ld mirror typical UNIX > compilers of the era at which GCC was built. collect2 was presumably > necessary because of dependence on proprietary ld; if we could assume > GNU ld (or GOLD) everywhere, we could fold that functionality directly > into the linker.
For what it's worth, all of the functionality except for -frepo is already folded into both. And I suspect that -frepo support could be handled via a linker plugin. Ian
