Reference ports, etc. (was Re: Nasty bug in release 4 Bourne shell)

[Guy Harris]

>I believe that's what Sun and AT&T thought, but I can imagine
>existing COFF-producing retargetable code generators and other such
>tools which could be ported to SPARC much more easily if the supplier
>did not have to change object formats at the same time.

That's one nice thing about having your compilers generate assembler
code rather than object code - they don't have to know quite so much
about object-file formats, because they leave that knowledge up to the
assembler....