[fpc-devel] Internal linker question

[Sven Barth]

Am 12.08.2010 09:13, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
> Hi,
>
> [...just curious...]
>
> As far as I understand, the Windows version of FPC has an internal linker
> which greatly improved the speed of building/linking software on that platform.
>
> Why doesn't the Linux version of FPC (or any other platform for that
> matter) have it's own internal linker? Is it simply because nobody wrote it
> yet, or is there some other technical reason for not doing it?

Isn't there already a prototype ELF linker in the compiler? Or is that 
only a skeleton like the OS/2 one?

Regards,
Sven