In article <20020521125849.A10965@noc.untraceable.net>,
Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net> wrote:
>>> >3. Change host generated object files to ".ho" [".lo" was used before and
>>> >   not documented in bsd.README] and beautify the rule.
>>>
>>> I've heard only 2 positive and 0 negative remarks about this, so I will
>>> proceed with the change after the branch. This is the last time to voice
>>> objections.
>>
>>Well, there is the obvious one that came up when I chose .lo in the first
>>place. ".ho" sounded either too santa-clausy, or like we were putting on
>>the red light. :-)
>
>how about .mo, for "machine (dependant) object"?

but that has the opposite meaning, no? By "machine" we usually refer to the
target...

christos