BSD ld (was Re: MCLinker and llvm-config)

[Dimitry Andric]

On 2012-07-28 16:15, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
> The Elftoolchain project has been developing a BSD ld:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/elftoolchain/ 
> 
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/elftoolchain/browser/trunk/ld 
> 
> 
> I thought that would be the official FreeBSD implementation.

Let's just say there really isn't any consensus yet, except that GNU ld
should be binned. :) 

At EuroBSDCon 2011 there was a toolchain WG, where a few ideas and
requirements for a good system linker were shuffled around.  See
Brooks' report here:

http://wiki.freebsd.org/201110DevSummit/Toolchain?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=toolchain-wg-report.pdf