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1 | (This file is under construction.) -*- text -*- |
2 | ||
3 | If you've contributed to gas and your name isn't listed here, it is | |
4 | not meant as a slight. I just don't know about it. Email me, | |
5 | [email protected] and I'll correct the situation. | |
6 | ||
7 | This file will eventually be deleted: The general info will go into | |
8 | the documentation, and info on specific files will go into an AUTHORS | |
9 | file, as requested by the FSF. | |
10 | ||
11 | ++++++++++++++++ | |
12 | ||
13 | Dean Elsner wrote the original gas for vax. [more details?] | |
14 | ||
15 | Jay Fenlason maintained gas for a while, adding support for | |
16 | gdb-specific debug information and the 68k series machines, most of | |
17 | the preprocessing pass, and extensive changes in messages.c, | |
18 | input-file.c, write.c. | |
19 | ||
20 | K. Richard Pixley maintained gas for a while, adding various | |
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21 | enhancements and many bug fixes, including merging support for several |
22 | processors, breaking gas up to handle multiple object file format | |
23 | backends (including heavy rewrite, testing, an integration of the coff | |
24 | and b.out backends), adding configuration including heavy testing and | |
25 | verification of cross assemblers and file splits and renaming, | |
26 | converted gas to strictly ansi C including full prototypes, added | |
27 | support for m680[34]0 & cpu32, considerable work on i960 including a | |
28 | coff port (including considerable amounts of reverse engineering), a | |
29 | sparc opcode file rewrite, decstation, rs6000, and hp300hpux host | |
30 | ports, updated "know" assertions and made them work, much other | |
31 | reorganization, cleanup, and lint. | |
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33 | Ken Raeburn currently maintains gas, and wrote the high-level BFD | |
34 | interface code to replace most of the code in format-specific I/O | |
35 | modules. | |
36 | ||
37 | The original VMS support was contributed by David L. Kashtan. Eric | |
38 | Youngdale has done much work with it since. | |
39 | ||
40 | The Intel 80386 machine description was written by Eliot Dresselhaus. | |
41 | ||
42 | Minh Tran-Le at IntelliCorp contributed some AIX 386 support. | |
43 | ||
44 | The Motorola 88k machine description was contributed by Devon Bowen of | |
45 | Buffalo University and Torbjorn Granlund of the Swedish Institute of | |
46 | Computer Science. | |
47 | ||
48 | Mark Eichin wrote the original (incomplete) ELF back end. | |
49 | ||
50 | Keith Knowles at the Open Software Foundation wrote the original MIPS | |
51 | back end (tc-mips.c, tc-mips.h), and contributed Rose format support | |
52 | that hasn't been merged in yet. Ralph Campbell worked with the MIPS | |
53 | code to support a.out format. | |
54 | ||
55 | Support for the Zilog Z8k and Hitachi H8/300 and H8/500 processors | |
56 | (tc-z8k, tc-h8300, tc-h8500), and IEEE 695 object file format | |
57 | (obj-ieee), was written by Steve Chamberlain of Cygnus Support. Steve | |
58 | also modified the COFF back end to use BFD for some low-level | |
59 | operations, for use with the H8/300 and AMD 29k targets. | |
60 | ||
61 | John Gilmore worked on the AMD 29000 support. [doing what? any major | |
62 | work on other parts?] | |
63 | ||
64 | Ian Lance Taylor of Cygnus Support merged the Motorola and MIT | |
65 | syntaxes for the 68k, completed support for some COFF targets (68k, | |
66 | i386 SVR3, and SCO Unix), and made a few other minor patches. | |
67 | ||
68 | Support for generation of listings was added by Steve Chamberlain. | |
69 | ||
70 | Several engineers at Cygnus Support have also provided many small bug | |
71 | fixes and configuration enhancements. | |
72 | ||
73 | ||
74 | Many others have contributed large or small bugfixes and enhancements, | |
75 | including: [review ChangeLog and file comments and sort out | |
76 | details...] | |
77 | ||
78 | Allen Wirfs-Brock, of Instantiations Inc [changed app.c, but how much?] |