In article <20041025015833.70CFCA65A@zen.crufty.net>,
Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@crufty.net> wrote:
>>If we're considering changing this, is there prior art in other
>>systems (e.g, the GNU toolchain, libtool, ...) for purpose specific
>>object suffices ?
>
>FWIW FreeBSD uses .So for shared objects that go into .so libs.
>
>--sjg

A really bad idea... It will break builds on windows.

christos