>From what I remember, I think that HLASM used the option XOBJECT to indicate >GOFF output format (and used the term internally to distinguish that format), >but this term had sometimes also been used to refer to the earlier extended >object format used for C, which supported long names by using the prelinker to >reduce the output to standard OBJECT format. The preferred name of the HLASM >XOBJECT option was therefore changed to GOFF to avoid confusion with that >previous format, but of course the original option name had to be retained for >compatibility.
Jonathan Scott
