Date: Fri, 8 Oct 93 09:18:07 -0400 From: DJ Delorie To: kuku AT acds DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Subject: Re: the new linker Yes, the new linker (bfd) is bigger and probably slower than the old linker. However, there's no going back as the old linker supported maybe three or four platforms, and the new linker supports hundreds. If you still feel there's cause to complain, I'm sure nobody at FSF would mind if you got the sources and started improving them. Since djgpp is switching over (actually, has switched) to COFF for 1.11, the old linker won't work any more anyway - it didn't support COFF at all. DJ