Todd Whitesel wrote:

> > I'm appalled that we seem to have hacked ld to Hell and back to work
> > around a bug in gas.  *sigh*
> 
> This is the rule rather than the exception.

Teh real problem is that when you start having to write code to
implement something you know next to nothing about (ie learning the
subject from scratch) and it's needed by the person paying your
food+rent 'yesterday' or else you get shot.