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On 24 Jul 2012, at 10:39, Erik Cederstrand wrote:

> Btw, do you guys have any plans for a GNU ld replacement? Progress on =
the more "official" lld (http://lld.llvm.org/) seems slow, and MCLinker =
more promising. Hence my feeble attempts :-)

Most of the progress in lld is not in lld itself, but in the underlying =
frameworks.  The tool is expected to be a fairly thin wrapper.  The =
Object code in the main llvm repository is where the real work happens.

MCLinker is likely a dead end.  It was intended as a quick-and-dirty =
hack to get a working linker for a small subset of the problem, with no =
thought as to how to solve the general case.

David=