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The amount of work it took to replace the gnu linker with LLD in freebsd was non trivial. But it's just about ready to be turned on in base.
by X86BSD 10y ago
The amount of work it took to replace the gnu linker with LLD in freebsd was non trivial. But it's just about ready to be turned on in base.
- rleigh 10y agoI'm really looking forward to this. I've hit the 2^16 symbol limit in the ancient GNU ld in base several times over the last few years (the version in ports is fine). It will be great to have a default linker without such 16-bit limits.
- josteink 10y agoGiven his current attitudes on LLVM, I'm sure Stallman will se exceeding such a limit as an attack on free software ;) Seriously though. I guess the majority of major FOSS software out there have a goal of retaining GNU compatibility, so I'd be surprised if this turned out to be an issue.