input-file.c, write.c.
K. Richard Pixley maintained gas for a while, adding various
-enhancements and bug fixes. [what in particular did Rich do? get
-details from rich and/or changelog]
+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.
Ken Raeburn currently maintains gas, and wrote the high-level BFD
interface code to replace most of the code in format-specific I/O
Buffalo University and Torbjorn Granlund of the Swedish Institute of
Computer Science.
-Mark Eichin wrote the original (incomplete) ELF back end.
-
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.
-Support for the Zilog Z8k and Hitachi H8/300 and H8/500 processors
-(tc-z8k, tc-h8300, tc-h8500), and IEEE 695 object file format
+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 Support. Steve
-also modified the COFF back end to use BFD for some low-level
-operations, for use with the H8/300 and AMD 29k targets.
+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.
-John Gilmore worked on the AMD 29000 support. [doing what? any major
-work on other parts?]
+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 apocryphal one-bit fix.
Ian Lance Taylor of Cygnus Support merged the Motorola and MIT
syntaxes for the 68k, completed support for some COFF targets (68k,
-i386 SVR3, and SCO Unix), and made a few other minor patches.
+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.
+
+Steve Chamberlain made gas able to generate listings.
-Support for generation of listings was added by Steve Chamberlain.
+Support for the HP9000/300 was contributed by Glenn Engel of HP.
+
+Support for ELF format files has been worked on by Mark Eichin of
+Cygnus Support (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 Support
+(sparc, initial 64-bit support).
Several engineers at Cygnus Support have also provided many small bug
fixes and configuration enhancements.
-Many others have contributed large or small bugfixes and enhancements,
-including: [review ChangeLog and file comments and sort out
-details...]
-
-Allen Wirfs-Brock, of Instantiations Inc [changed app.c, but how much?]
+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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