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		rleigh on Feb 17, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LLD is included in the upcoming LLVM 4.0 release I'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 on Feb 18, 2017 [–]

Given 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.

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