[cfe-dev] Clang builds a working Linux Kernel (Boots to RL5 with SMP, networking and X, self hosts)

["C. Bergström"]

Bryce Lelbach wrote:
> Question: Are there any open source linkers out there aside from GNU ld, that
> aren't derived from GNU ld?
Yes - sun's ld is open source and works *very* well.  It supports 
x86/amd64/sparc natively and I believe has also been ported to ARM and 
ppc.  If anyone is serious about this (maybe some of the BSD folks) I'd 
maybe be happy to find the cycles and create a standalone tarball.

Technically the new gold linker is written mostly by Google people.  I'd 
not put it in the same category as most "GNU" tools, but it is bundled 
with binutils and GPL.