"Asman01"  wrote in message news:klvtbihnvoxfarsjdlhv@forum.dlang.org... 

> Is this the current linker used by DMD on all platforms?

No, only when building win32 executables.

On Saturday, 9 March 2013 at 05:22:31 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> On Thursday, 7 March 2013 at 15:53:09 UTC, Denis Shelomovskij wrote:
>> Didn't get. You don't have to use D with druntime. Just don't link it and everything will be OK - you will just get "better C" (i.e. with D structs and other good stuff).
>
> Walter wrote all about it: http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/assembler-to-c/228701319

Why isn't this link here(http://www.drdobbs.com/author/Walter-Bright) ? are there more Walter's articles not listed in this page? if so, I want to know. Please :)

"Asman01"  wrote in message news:ucqujzetvkkxzelvjleq@forum.dlang.org...

> Very noob question about binary files. What else also put the code to load at right address (say, 0x08048000 on linux) of operating system is needed to a program run?

Not really sure what you're asking, but the executable file usually contains an address for each section (code, data, bss, etc) and the runtime loader will choose to load it there or somewhere else (eg aslr/shared libraries) and map the data into virtual memory. 

On Sunday, 23 March 2014 at 16:10:48 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "Asman01"  wrote in message news:ucqujzetvkkxzelvjleq@forum.dlang.org...
>
>> Very noob question about binary files. What else also put the code to load at right address (say, 0x08048000 on linux) of operating system is needed to a program run?
>
> Not really sure what you're asking, but the executable file usually contains an address for each section (code, data, bss, etc) and the runtime loader will choose to load it there or somewhere else (eg aslr/shared libraries) and map the data into virtual memory.

I think I was confusing this to static executables which load at 0x08048000 address and start running from value your set in entry point.

On Thursday, 7 March 2013 at 03:06:48 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Walter Bright:
>
>> Happy hacking!
>
> Extra karma points if done blindfolded, using a Braille tablet :-)
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

As far as I know, Walter DOES IT blindfolded, using a Braille tablet and while he writes 3 other compilers at the same time...

(but the same has been said of Linus Torvalds, or Richard Stallman, so perhaps its a myth...)