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(This file is under construction.) -*- text -*-
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If you've contributed to gas and your name isn't listed here, it is
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not meant as a slight. I just don't know about it. Email me,
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raeburn@cygnus.com and I'll correct the situation.
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This file will eventually be deleted: The general info will go into
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the documentation, and info on specific files will go into an AUTHORS
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file, as requested by the FSF.
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Dean Elsner wrote the original gas for vax. [more details?]
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Jay Fenlason maintained gas for a while, adding support for
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gdb-specific debug information and the 68k series machines, most of
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the preprocessing pass, and extensive changes in messages.c,
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input-file.c, write.c.
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K. Richard Pixley maintained gas for a while, adding various
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enhancements and many bug fixes, including merging support for several
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processors, breaking gas up to handle multiple object file format
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backends (including heavy rewrite, testing, an integration of the coff
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and b.out backends), adding configuration including heavy testing and
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verification of cross assemblers and file splits and renaming,
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converted gas to strictly ansi C including full prototypes, added
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support for m680[34]0 & cpu32, considerable work on i960 including a
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coff port (including considerable amounts of reverse engineering), a
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sparc opcode file rewrite, decstation, rs6000, and hp300hpux host
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ports, updated "know" assertions and made them work, much other
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reorganization, cleanup, and lint.
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Ken Raeburn currently maintains gas, and wrote the high-level BFD
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interface code to replace most of the code in format-specific I/O
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modules.
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The original Vax-VMS support was contributed by David L. Kashtan.
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Eric Youngdale and Pat Rankin have done much work with it since.
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The Intel 80386 machine description was written by Eliot Dresselhaus.
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Minh Tran-Le at IntelliCorp contributed some AIX 386 support.
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The Motorola 88k machine description was contributed by Devon Bowen of
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Buffalo University and Torbjorn Granlund of the Swedish Institute of
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Computer Science.
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Keith Knowles at the Open Software Foundation wrote the original MIPS
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back end (tc-mips.c, tc-mips.h), and contributed Rose format support
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that hasn't been merged in yet. Ralph Campbell worked with the MIPS
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code to support a.out format.
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Support for the Zilog Z8k and Hitachi H8/300, H8/500 and SH processors
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(tc-z8k, tc-h8300, tc-h8500, tc-sh), and IEEE 695 object file format
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(obj-ieee), was written by Steve Chamberlain of Cygnus Solutions.
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Steve also modified the COFF back end (obj-coffbfd) to use BFD for
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some low-level operations, for use with the Hitachi, 29k and Zilog
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targets.
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John Gilmore built the AMD 29000 support, added .include support, and
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simplified the configuration of which versions accept which
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pseudo-ops. He updated the 68k machine description so that Motorola's
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opcodes always produced fixed-size instructions (e.g. jsr), while
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synthetic instructions remained shrinkable (jbsr). John fixed many
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bugs, including true tested cross-compilation support, and one bug in
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relaxation that took a week and required the proverbial one-bit fix.
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Ian Lance Taylor of Cygnus Solutions merged the Motorola and MIT
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syntaxes for the 68k, completed support for some COFF targets (68k,
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i386 SVR3, and SCO Unix), wrote the ECOFF support based on Michael
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Meissner's mips-tfile program, wrote the PowerPC and RS/6000 support,
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and made a few other minor patches. He handled the binutils releases
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for versions 2.7 through 2.9.
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David Edelsohn contributed fixes for the PowerPC and AIX support.
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Steve Chamberlain made gas able to generate listings.
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Support for the HP9000/300 was contributed by Glenn Engel of HP.
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Support for ELF format files has been worked on by Mark Eichin of
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Cygnus Solutions (original, incomplete implementation), Pete
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Hoogenboom at the University of Utah (HPPA mainly), Michael Meissner
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of the Open Software Foundation (i386 mainly), and Ken Raeburn of
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Cygnus Solutions (sparc, initial 64-bit support).
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Several engineers at Cygnus Solutions have also provided many small
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bug fixes and configuration enhancements.
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The initial Alpha support was contributed by Carnegie-Mellon
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University. Additional work was done by Ken Raeburn of Cygnus
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Solutions. Richard Henderson then rewrote much of the Alpha support.
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Ian Dall updated the support code for the National Semiconductor 32000
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series, and added support for Mach 3 and NetBSD running on the PC532.
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Klaus Kaempf ported the assembler and the binutils to openVMS/Alpha.
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Steve Haworth contributed the support for the Texas Instruction c30
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(tms320c30).
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H.J. Lu has contributed many patches and much testing.
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Alan Modra reworked much of the i386 backend, improving the error
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checking, updating the code, and improving the 16 bit support, using
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patches from the work of Martynas Kunigelis and H.J. Lu.
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Many others have contributed large or small bugfixes and enhancements. If
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you've contributed significant work and are not mentioned on this list, and
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want to be, let us know. Some of the history has been lost; we aren't
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intentionally leaving anyone out.
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