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From: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
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On 8 January 2015 at 07:54, Erik Cederstrand <erik+lists@cederstrand.dk> wrote:
> Thanks, Ed. That's really cool!
>
> Does anyone know what the status of replacing ld is?

The plan is to use lld from the LLVM linker. Good progress is being
made upstream on lld; it can self-host on FreeBSD. We're currently
blocked on linker script support -- lld actually has a linker script
parser, but doesn't use it yet.