> > echo "int x;" > foo.c; cc -c foo.c -o foo.o && file foo.o; rm foo.[co]

> Unfortunatly it only provides a positive identification of COFF/ECOFF. 

Oh.  On Linux, we get "[QZN]MAGIC" in the identification.  That's
surprising--it almost seems like a failing on the part of /etc/magic.

Ben