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On 14 Dec 2012, at 08:15, Erik Cederstrand wrote:

> Would this be acceptable in FreeBSD if I created a patch, or are you =
just suggesting it for my local testing?

I think that we will probably want to import MCLinker as soon as it is =
able to (correctly) link the base system, and at that point a patch is =
probably a good idea.  I'll try to ensure that there is infrastructure =
in clang for selecting the linker by that time as well.

David=