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Sure! Making MCLinker be a solid toolchain/system linker is an important
goal in the project.

Thanks,
Pete



On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 9:19 PM, David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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
>
>