Using non-gcc linker?

[Joshua Isom]

On 1/23/2012 3:47 PM, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just "made" world and kernel using clang, but I noticed that ld is still
> using the GNU ld. The page
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/BuildingFreeBSDWithClangmentions using a
> different linker that supports LTO optimisation. Is that
> non-GNU linker part of FreeBSD 9?
>
> Thanks!
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It's a newer gnu ld that supports plugins.  The plugin handles the LTO. 
  It might be possible to compile to bytecode, link and optimize with 
llvm-ld.  It might still need gnu ld to create a final binary.