• Walter Bright (1/1) Nov 30 2009 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a9lxo/assembler_to_c/
• Vladimir Panteleev (12/13) Nov 30 2009 The link posted on reddit in broken: "You are not authorised to view thi...
• Spacen Jasset (3/20) Nov 30 2009 The article doesn't really say why optlink? Why not use another linker?
• Adam D. Ruppe (8/10) Nov 30 2009 That's not really the point though - the article is discussing "how" rat...

Walter Bright <newshound1 digitalmars.com> writes:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a9lxo/assembler_to_c/

"Vladimir Panteleev" <thecybershadow gmail.com> writes:

On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:02:13 +0200, Walter Bright  
<newshound1 digitalmars.com> wrote:

 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a9lxo/assembler_to_c/

The link posted on reddit in broken: "You are not authorised to view this  
resource. You need to login."

Broken  link:  
http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&amp;show=Assembler-to-C.html&amp;Itemid=29
Working link:  
http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Assembler-to-C.html&Itemid=29

Note the HTML entities...

-- 
Best regards,
  Vladimir                          mailto:thecybershadow gmail.com

Spacen Jasset <spacenjasset yahoo.co.uk> writes:

Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
 On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:02:13 +0200, Walter Bright 
 <newshound1 digitalmars.com> wrote:
 
 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a9lxo/assembler_to_c/

 
 The link posted on reddit in broken: "You are not authorised to view 
 this resource. You need to login."
 
 Broken  link: 
 http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&amp;show=Assembler-to-
.html&amp;Itemid=29 
 
 Working link: 
 http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Assembler
to-C.html&Itemid=29 
 
 
 Note the HTML entities...
 

The article doesn't really say why optlink? Why not use another linker? 
(which may already be written in c)

"Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:14:32PM +0000, Spacen Jasset wrote:
 The article doesn't really say why optlink?

That's not really the point though - the article is discussing "how" rather
than "why".

 Why not use another linker? 

Speed is a big one, but I imagine familiarity is another - Walter has
worked with optlink for a lot of years and surely knows it very well.

-- 
Adam D. Ruppe
http://arsdnet.net