What's the reasoning behind using ld64 for gccXX?

[Jack Howarth]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:11:12PM +0200, vincent habchi wrote:
> On 19 avr. 2012, at 22:07, Jack Howarth <howarth at bromo.med.uc.edu> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 09:47:13PM +0200, vincent habchi wrote:
> >> Folks,
> >> 
> >> What about the upcoming LLD?
> >> 
> >> Vincent
> >  If lld is the proposed replacement for the existing ld linker tool, what is proposed as the replacement assmebler for compilers outside of clang?
> 
> llvm-mc?

But will llvm-mc pretend to be gas (like clang pretends to be gcc) in terms of understanding option flags and such so
that it can be a drop in replacement for the current 'as'?

> 
> Vincent