.PRECIOUS for intermediates without keeping corrupt files?

[Wagman, Adam]

The GNU Make documentation says that .PRECIOUS is used for two distinct 
purposes: 1) to prevent intermediate targets from being deleted, and 2) to 
prevent deleting targets if make is interrupted (e.g. via ctrl-C).

Is there any way to get just #1 without #2?    My particular case is that an 
EXE depends on several .obj files, so that making the exe causes the .c/.cpp 
files to be compiled to the .objs, and I want to keep those .obj files to keep 
from remaking them.  However, if the make is interrupted, I certainly don't 
want corrupt .obj files left lying around, waiting to be linked and cause 
problems.

-Adam