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| If you've contributed to gas and your name isn't listed here, it is |
| not meant as a slight. I just don't know about it. Email me, |
| nickc@redhat.com and I'll correct the situation. |
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| This file will eventually be deleted: The general info will go into |
| the documentation, and info on specific files will go into an AUTHORS |
| file, as requested by the FSF. |
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| Dean Elsner wrote the original gas for vax. [more details?] |
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| Jay Fenlason maintained gas for a while, adding support for |
| gdb-specific debug information and the 68k series machines, most of |
| the preprocessing pass, and extensive changes in messages.c, |
| input-file.c, write.c. |
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| K. Richard Pixley maintained gas for a while, adding various |
| enhancements and many bug fixes, including merging support for several |
| processors, breaking gas up to handle multiple object file format |
| backends (including heavy rewrite, testing, an integration of the coff |
| and b.out backends), adding configuration including heavy testing and |
| verification of cross assemblers and file splits and renaming, |
| converted gas to strictly ansi C including full prototypes, added |
| support for m680[34]0 & cpu32, considerable work on i960 including a |
| coff port (including considerable amounts of reverse engineering), a |
| sparc opcode file rewrite, decstation, rs6000, and hp300hpux host |
| ports, updated "know" assertions and made them work, much other |
| reorganization, cleanup, and lint. |
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| Ken Raeburn wrote the high-level BFD interface code to replace most of |
| the code in format-specific I/O modules. |
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| The original Vax-VMS support was contributed by David L. Kashtan. |
| Eric Youngdale and Pat Rankin have done much work with it since. |
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| The Intel 80386 machine description was written by Eliot Dresselhaus. |
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| Minh Tran-Le at IntelliCorp contributed some AIX 386 support. |
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| The Motorola 88k machine description was contributed by Devon Bowen of |
| Buffalo University and Torbjorn Granlund of the Swedish Institute of |
| Computer Science. |
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| Keith Knowles at the Open Software Foundation wrote the original MIPS |
| back end (tc-mips.c, tc-mips.h), and contributed Rose format support |
| that hasn't been merged in yet. Ralph Campbell worked with the MIPS |
| code to support a.out format. |
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| Support for the Zilog Z8k and Hitachi H8/300, H8/500 and SH processors |
| (tc-z8k, tc-h8300, tc-h8500, tc-sh), and IEEE 695 object file format |
| (obj-ieee), was written by Steve Chamberlain of Cygnus Solutions. |
| Steve also modified the COFF back end (obj-coffbfd) to use BFD for |
| some low-level operations, for use with the Hitachi, 29k and Zilog |
| targets. |
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| John Gilmore built the AMD 29000 support, added .include support, and |
| simplified the configuration of which versions accept which |
| pseudo-ops. He updated the 68k machine description so that Motorola's |
| opcodes always produced fixed-size instructions (e.g. jsr), while |
| synthetic instructions remained shrinkable (jbsr). John fixed many |
| bugs, including true tested cross-compilation support, and one bug in |
| relaxation that took a week and required the proverbial one-bit fix. |
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| Ian Lance Taylor of Cygnus Solutions merged the Motorola and MIT |
| syntaxes for the 68k, completed support for some COFF targets (68k, |
| i386 SVR3, and SCO Unix), wrote the ECOFF support based on Michael |
| Meissner's mips-tfile program, wrote the PowerPC and RS/6000 support, |
| and made a few other minor patches. He handled the binutils releases |
| for versions 2.7 through 2.9. |
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| David Edelsohn contributed fixes for the PowerPC and AIX support. |
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| Steve Chamberlain made gas able to generate listings. |
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| Support for the HP9000/300 was contributed by Glenn Engel of HP. |
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| Support for ELF format files has been worked on by Mark Eichin of |
| Cygnus Solutions (original, incomplete implementation), Pete |
| Hoogenboom at the University of Utah (HPPA mainly), Michael Meissner |
| of the Open Software Foundation (i386 mainly), and Ken Raeburn of |
| Cygnus Solutions (sparc, initial 64-bit support). |
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| Several engineers at Cygnus Solutions have also provided many small |
| bug fixes and configuration enhancements. |
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| The initial Alpha support was contributed by Carnegie-Mellon |
| University. Additional work was done by Ken Raeburn of Cygnus |
| Solutions. Richard Henderson then rewrote much of the Alpha support. |
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| Ian Dall updated the support code for the National Semiconductor 32000 |
| series, and added support for Mach 3 and NetBSD running on the PC532. |
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| Klaus Kaempf ported the assembler and the binutils to openVMS/Alpha. |
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| Steve Haworth contributed the support for the Texas Instruction c30 |
| (tms320c30). |
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| H.J. Lu has contributed many patches and much testing. |
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| Alan Modra reworked much of the i386 backend, improving the error |
| checking, updating the code, and improving the 16 bit support, using |
| patches from the work of Martynas Kunigelis and H.J. Lu. |
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| Many others have contributed large or small bugfixes and enhancements. If |
| you've contributed significant work and are not mentioned on this list, and |
| want to be, let us know. Some of the history has been lost; we aren't |
| intentionally leaving anyone out. |
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