On 11 October 2012 14:35, Walter Bright <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:newshound2@digitalmars.com" target="_blank">newshound2@digitalmars.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 10/10/2012 11:49 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:<br>
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Maybe it&#39;s time to update the old tool chain that we inherited form the 70s, but<br>
this is a totally different discussion.<br>
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Writing a new linker for each platform is a major undertaking.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well Microsoft&#39;s linker is obviously capable of finding lib details in the object files.</div><div>Iain almost sounded like he had a working theory for ld.</div>
<div>I know nothing of OSX. LLVM?</div></div>