From d3f1889951fa37332f67556a0a253128a710f23c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Kelley <superjoe30@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 15:53:23 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] in freestanding environment, assume gnu binutils

for now. soon LLD will free us from depending on
system linkers.
---
 src/link.cpp | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/link.cpp b/src/link.cpp
index 93b6e65ca19fd02c470a709f449e41e3dda070ec..6c12f0ef4765b007911142eacf3bb2d2b4167bc1 100644
--- a/src/link.cpp
+++ b/src/link.cpp
@@ -687,8 +687,11 @@ static void construct_linker_job_darwin(LinkJob *lj) {
 
 static void construct_linker_job(LinkJob *lj) {
     switch (lj->codegen->zig_target.os) {
-        case ZigLLVM_UnknownOS:
-            zig_unreachable();
+        case ZigLLVM_UnknownOS: // freestanding
+            // TODO we want to solve this problem with LLD, but for now let's
+            // assume gnu binutils
+            // http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-February/109835.html
+            return construct_linker_job_linux(lj);
         case ZigLLVM_Linux:
             if (lj->codegen->zig_target.arch.arch == ZigLLVM_hexagon) {
                 zig_panic("TODO construct hexagon_TC linker job");
-- 
2.54.0