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A bit premature
A bit premature
Posted Mar 27, 2008 14:59 UTC (Thu) by pj (subscriber, #4506)In reply to: A bit premature by clugstj
Parent article: Striking gold in binutils
Still, ld should be optimized for the common case, which is x86 ELF, and it's clearly not. Times changes, the 'common case' changes, and tools should keep up.
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A bit premature
Posted Mar 28, 2008 0:17 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]
Besides, Ian doesn't have to produce an actual replacement for Ld or smite Ld to the ground to be a hero or a linker god. If he can produce a replacement for Ld on x86 and x86_64 with ELF, that's godly all by itself.For a great many people, there is no effective difference between a linker that works on x86 and x86_64 with ELF and a linker that works on dozens of processors and half a dozen file formats.