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On 3 Aug 2012, at 13:39, pete wrote:

> And I also checked that MCLinker is able to link itself with archive =
libraries on i386 FreeBSD9.

This is the bit we care about.  The system linker must, at a minimum, be =
able to link the base system.  There are a great many other features =
that we want, but this is the requirement for replacing GNU ld in the =
base system.

David