interface code to replace most of the code in format-specific I/O
modules.
-The original VMS support was contributed by David L. Kashtan. Eric
-Youngdale has done much work with it since.
+The original Vax-VMS support was contributed by David L. Kashtan.
+Eric Youngdale and Pat Rankin have done much work with it since.
The Intel 80386 machine description was written by Eliot Dresselhaus.
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
-(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.
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+David Edelsohn contributed fixes for the PowerPC and AIX support.
-John Gilmore worked on the AMD 29000 support. [doing what? any major
-work on other parts?]
+Steve Chamberlain made gas able to generate listings.
-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.
+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 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).
+
+Several engineers at Cygnus Solutions have also provided many small
+bug fixes and configuration enhancements.
+
+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.
+
+Ian Dall updated the support code for the National Semiconductor 32000
+series, and added support for Mach 3 and NetBSD running on the PC532.
-Support for generation of listings was added by Steve Chamberlain.
+Klaus Kaempf ported the assembler and the binutils to openVMS/Alpha.
-Several engineers at Cygnus Support have also provided many small bug
-fixes and configuration enhancements.
+Steve Haworth contributed the support for the Texas Instruction c30
+(tms320c30).
+H.J. Lu has contributed many patches and much testing.
-Many others have contributed large or small bugfixes and enhancements,
-including: [review ChangeLog and file comments and sort out
-details...]
+Alan Modra reworked much of the i386 backend, improving the error
+checking and updating the code.
-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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