Forwarded from: marcov@stack.nl (Marco van de Voort)

In gmane.comp.compilers.gpc, you wrote:

I don't know details about those, but the historical reasons I mentioned refer specifically to Dos, not to x86. In fact, Linux on x86 doesn't have the underscore.

IIRC, Linux/BSD lost the underscore in the ELF transition, IOW linux/x86-a.out had it.