Flipside of this: the FSF's idiotic copyright assignment policy is threatening to undermine lots of exciting Free cpu designs.https://twitter.com/RichFelker/status/783319585512624128 …
That's not surprising. LLVM project is full of Windows- and Apple-think. :-(
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A good linker replacement would work natively in ELF, in-place via mmap for most work, and use sep. conv. pass for legacy fmts
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The COFF and ELF linkers are totally separate with a common library and it appears to use mmap heavily: https://github.com/llvm-mirror/lld/tree/master/ELF ….
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It's a tiny project compared to binutils too. COFF support is done but the only people that care about ELF seem to be BSD folks.
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It's because there was no proper toolchain for Windows so there was actually a major incentive to work on the COFF linker.
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