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1 | (This file is under construction.) -*- text -*- |
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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 | raeburn@cygnus.com 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 | |
21 | enhancements and bug fixes. [what in particular did Rich do? get | |
22 | details from rich and/or changelog] | |
23 | ||
24 | Ken Raeburn currently maintains gas, and wrote the high-level BFD | |
25 | interface code to replace most of the code in format-specific I/O | |
26 | modules. | |
27 | ||
28 | The original VMS support was contributed by David L. Kashtan. Eric | |
29 | Youngdale has done much work with it since. | |
30 | ||
31 | The Intel 80386 machine description was written by Eliot Dresselhaus. | |
32 | ||
33 | Minh Tran-Le at IntelliCorp contributed some AIX 386 support. | |
34 | ||
35 | The Motorola 88k machine description was contributed by Devon Bowen of | |
36 | Buffalo University and Torbjorn Granlund of the Swedish Institute of | |
37 | Computer Science. | |
38 | ||
39 | Mark Eichin wrote the original (incomplete) ELF back end. | |
40 | ||
41 | Keith Knowles at the Open Software Foundation wrote the original MIPS | |
42 | back end (tc-mips.c, tc-mips.h), and contributed Rose format support | |
43 | that hasn't been merged in yet. Ralph Campbell worked with the MIPS | |
44 | code to support a.out format. | |
45 | ||
46 | Support for the Zilog Z8k and Hitachi H8/300 and H8/500 processors | |
47 | (tc-z8k, tc-h8300, tc-h8500), and IEEE 695 object file format | |
48 | (obj-ieee), was written by Steve Chamberlain of Cygnus Support. Steve | |
49 | also modified the COFF back end to use BFD for some low-level | |
50 | operations, for use with the H8/300 and AMD 29k targets. | |
51 | ||
52 | John Gilmore worked on the AMD 29000 support. [doing what? any major | |
53 | work on other parts?] | |
54 | ||
55 | Ian Lance Taylor of Cygnus Support merged the Motorola and MIT | |
56 | syntaxes for the 68k, completed support for some COFF targets (68k, | |
57 | i386 SVR3, and SCO Unix), and made a few other minor patches. | |
58 | ||
59 | Support for generation of listings was added by Steve Chamberlain. | |
60 | ||
61 | Several engineers at Cygnus Support have also provided many small bug | |
62 | fixes and configuration enhancements. | |
63 | ||
64 | ||
65 | Many others have contributed large or small bugfixes and enhancements, | |
66 | including: [review ChangeLog and file comments and sort out | |
67 | details...] | |
68 | ||
69 | Allen Wirfs-Brock, of Instantiations Inc [changed app.c, but how much?] |