the assembler (gas), the profiler (gprof), a whole suite of other
programs (binutils) and the libraries that they use (bfd and
opcodes). This project shares a common set of header files with the
-GCC and GDB projects (include), so maintainership of those files is
+GCC and GDB projects (include), so maintainership of those files is
shared amoungst the projects.
The home page for binutils is:
and patches should be sent to:
- bug-binutils@gnu.org
-
+ binutils@sourceware.org
+
with "[Patch]" as part of the subject line. Note - patches to the
-top level configure.in and config.sub scripts should be sent to:
+top level config.guess and config.sub scripts should be sent to:
config-patches@gnu.org
-and not to the binutils list.
+and not to the binutils lists. Patches to the other top level
+configure files (configure, configure.in, config-ml.in) should
+be sent to the binutils lists, and copied to the gcc and gdb
+lists as well (gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org and
+gdb-patches@sourceware.org).
--------- Blanket Write Privs ---------
The following people have permission to check patches into the
repository without obtaining approval first:
-
+
Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> (head maintainer)
Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
- Ian Taylor <ian@zembu.com>
+ Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>
Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
- Jim Wilson <wilson@redhat.com>
+ Jim Wilson <wilson@tuliptree.org>
DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
- Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
- Michael Meissner <meissner@redhat.com>
+ Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
+ Michael Meissner <gnu@the-meissners.org>
+ Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
+ Richard Sandiford <rdsandiford@googlemail.com>
--------- Maintainers ---------
maintainer. The first maintainer is free to devolve that
responsibility among the other maintainers.
- ARC Peter Targett <peter.targett@arc.com>
+ ALPHA Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
ARM Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
ARM Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
+ ARM Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
+ ARM (Symbian) Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
AVR Denis Chertykov <denisc@overta.ru>
+ AVR Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@amelek.gda.pl>
+ BFIN Jie Zhang <jie@codesourcery.com>
+ BFIN Bernd Schmidt <bernd.schmidt@analog.com>
+ BUILD SYSTEM Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
+ CR16 M R Swami Reddy <MR.Swami.Reddy@nsc.com>
CRIS Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@axis.com>
+ CRX M R Swami Reddy <MR.Swami.Reddy@nsc.com>
+ DLX Nikolaos Kavvadias <nkavv@physics.auth.gr>
DWARF2 Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
- HPPA elf32 Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
- IA64 Jim Wilson <wilson@redhat.com>
- x86_64 Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz>
- x86_64 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
- i860 Jason Eckhardt <jle@redhat.com>
- ix86 Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
- ix86 COFF,PE DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
- ix86 H.J.Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
- ix86 INTEL MODE Diego Novillo <dnovillo@redhat.com>
- M68HC11 M68HC12 Stephane Carrez <Stephane.Carrez@worldnet.fr>
- MN10300 Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>
- MN10300 Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
- MIPS Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>
- M88k Ben Elliston <bje@redhat.com>
+ FR30 Dave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>
+ FRV Dave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>
+ FRV Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
+ H8300 Prafulla Thakare <prafulla.thakare@kpitcummins.com>
+ HPPA Dave Anglin <dave.anglin@nrc.ca>
+ HPPA elf32 Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
+ HPPA elf64 Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> [Basic maintainance only]
+ IA-64 Jim Wilson <wilson@tuliptree.org>
+ IQ2000 Stan Cox <scox@redhat.com>
+ i860 Jason Eckhardt <jle@rice.edu>
+ ix86 H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
+ ix86 PE Christopher Faylor <me+binutils@cgf.cx>
+ ix86 COFF DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
+ ix86 PE/COFF Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com>
+ ix86 INTEL MODE Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
+ LM32 Jon Beniston <jon@beniston.com>
+ M32R Doug Evans <dje@sebabeach.org>
+ M68HC11 M68HC12 Stephane Carrez <stcarrez@nerim.fr>
+ M88k Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org>
+ MACH-O Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>
+ MAXQ Inderpreet Singh <inderpreetb@noida.hcltech.com>
+ MEP Dave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>
+ MICROBLAZE Michael Eager <eager@eagercon.com>
+ MIPS Eric Christopher <echristo@apple.com>
MMIX Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com>
- PPC Geoff Keating <geoffk@redhat.com>
- PPC XCOFF Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
+ MN10300 Eric Christopher <echristo@apple.com>
+ MN10300 Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
+ Moxie Anthony Green <green@moxielogic.com>
+ MSP430 Dmitry Diky <diwil@spec.ru>
+ NetBSD support Matt Thomas <matt@netbsd.org>
+ PPC Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>
+ PPC Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
+ PPC vector ext Aldy Hernandez <aldyh@redhat.com>
+ RX DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
+ RX Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
s390, s390x Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
- SH Jörn Rennecke <joern.rennecke@superh.com>
- SH Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com>
+ SCORE Mei Ligang <ligang@sunnorth.com.cn>
SH Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
+ SH Kaz Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
SPARC Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
+ SPU Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
+ TIC4X Svein Seldal <svein@dev.seldal.com>
TIC54X Timothy Wall <twall@alum.mit.edu>
+ TIC6X Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
+ VAX Matt Thomas <matt@netbsd.org>
+ VAX Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
+ VMS Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>
+ x86_64 Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz>
+ x86_64 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
+ x86_64 H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
+ XCOFF Richard Sandiford <r.sandiford@uk.ibm.com>
+ Xtensa Sterling Augustine <sterling@tensilica.com>
+ z80 Arnold Metselaar <arnold.metselaar@planet.nl>
z8k Christian Groessler <chris@groessler.org>
disassemblers and simulators from a single description of a CPU.
It creates files in several of the binutils directories, but it
is mentioned here since there is a single group that maintains
-CGEN and the files that it creates.
+CGEN and the files that it creates.
If you have CGEN related problems you can send email to;
- cgen@sources.redhat.com
+ cgen@sourceware.org
The current CGEN maintainers are:
- Doug Evans, Ben Elliston, Frank Eigler
+ Doug Evans, Frank Eigler
--------- Write After Approval ---------
also be checked into the current release branch. Normally however
only bug fixes should be applied to the branch. New features, new
ports, etc, should be restricted to the mainline. (Otherwise the
-burden of maintaining the branch in sync with the mainline becomes too
+burden of maintaining the branch in sync with the mainline becomes too
great). If you are uncertain as to whether a patch is appropriate for
the branch, ask the branch maintainer. This is:
- Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
+ Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>
+
+ -------- Testsuites ---------------
+
+In general patches to any of the binutils testsuites should be
+considered generic and sent to the binutils mailing list for
+approval. Patches to target specific tests are the responsibility the
+relevent port maintainer(s), and can be approved/checked in by them.
+Other testsuite patches need the approval of a blanket-write-priveleges
+person.
+
+ -------- Configure patches ----------
+
+Patches to the top level configure files (config.sub & config.guess)
+are not the domain of the binutils project and they cannot be approved
+by the binutils group. Instead they should be submitted to the config
+maintainer at:
+
+ config-patches@gnu.org
+
+ --------- Creating Branches ---------
+
+Anyone with at least write-after-approval access may create a branch
+to use for their own development purposes. In keeping with FSF
+policies, all patches applied to such a branch must come from people
+with appropriate copyright assignments on file. All legal
+requirements that would apply to any other contribution apply equally
+to contributions on a branch.
+
+Before creating the branch, you should select a name for the branch of
+the form:
+
+ binutils-<org>-<name>
+
+where "org" is the initials of your organization, or your own initials
+if you are acting as an individual. For example, for a branch created
+by The GNUDist Company, "tgc" would be an appropriate choice for
+"org". It's up to each organization to select an appropriate choice
+for "name"; some organizations may use more structure than others, so
+"name" may contain additional hyphens.
+
+Suppose that The GNUDist Company was creating a branch to develop a
+port of Binutils to the FullMonty processor. Then, an appropriate
+choice of branch name would be:
+
+ binutils-tgc-fm
+
+A date stamp is not required as part of the name field, but some
+organizations like to have one. If you do include the date, you
+should follow these rules:
+
+1. The date should be the date that the branch was created.
+
+2. The date should be numerical and in the form YYYYMMDD.
+
+For example:
+
+ binutils-tgc-fm_20050101
+
+would be appropriate if the branch was created on January 1st, 2005.
+
+Having selected the branch name, create the branch as follows:
+
+1. Check out binutils, so that you have a CVS checkout corresponding
+ to the initial state of your branch.
+
+2. Create a tag:
+
+ cvs tag binutils-<org>-<name>-branchpoint
+
+ That tag will allow you, and others, to easily determine what's
+ changed on the branch relative to the initial state.
+
+3. Create the branch:
+
+ cvs rtag -b -r binutils-<org>-<name>-branchpoint \
+ binutils-<org>-<name>-branch
+
+4. Document the branch:
+
+ Add a description of the branch to binutils/BRANCHES, and check
+ that file in. All branch descriptions should be added to the
+ HEAD revision of the file; it doesn't help to modify
+ binutils/BRANCHES on a branch!
+
+Please do not commit any patches to a branch you did not create
+without the explicit permission of the person who created the branch.