gas/CONTRIBUTORS

   1 (This file is under construction.)                      -*- text -*-
   2
   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
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  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 many bug fixes, including merging support for several
  22 processors, breaking gas up to handle multiple object file format
  23 backends (including heavy rewrite, testing, an integration of the coff
  24 and b.out backends), adding configuration including heavy testing and
  25 verification of cross assemblers and file splits and renaming,
  26 converted gas to strictly ansi C including full prototypes, added
  27 support for m680[34]0 & cpu32, considerable work on i960 including a
  28 coff port (including considerable amounts of reverse engineering), a
  29 sparc opcode file rewrite, decstation, rs6000, and hp300hpux host
  30 ports, updated "know" assertions and made them work, much other
  31 reorganization, cleanup, and lint.
  32
  33 Ken Raeburn currently maintains gas, and wrote the high-level BFD
  34 interface code to replace most of the code in format-specific I/O
  35 modules.
  36
  37 The original VMS support was contributed by David L. Kashtan.  Eric
  38 Youngdale has done much work with it since.
  39
  40 The Intel 80386 machine description was written by Eliot Dresselhaus.
  41
  42 Minh Tran-Le at IntelliCorp contributed some AIX 386 support.
  43
  44 The Motorola 88k machine description was contributed by Devon Bowen of
  45 Buffalo University and Torbjorn Granlund of the Swedish Institute of
  46 Computer Science.
  47
  48 Keith Knowles at the Open Software Foundation wrote the original MIPS
  49 back end (tc-mips.c, tc-mips.h), and contributed Rose format support
  50 that hasn't been merged in yet.  Ralph Campbell worked with the MIPS
  51 code to support a.out format.
  52
  53 Support for the Zilog Z8k and Hitachi H8/300, H8/500 and SH processors
  54 (tc-z8k, tc-h8300, tc-h8500, tc-sh), and IEEE 695 object file format
  55 (obj-ieee), was written by Steve Chamberlain of Cygnus Support.  Steve
  56 also modified the COFF back end (obj-coffbfd) to use BFD for some
  57 low-level operations, for use with the Hitachi, 29k and Zilog targets.
  58
  59 John Gilmore built the AMD 29000 support, added .include support, and
  60 simplified the configuration of which versions accept which
  61 pseudo-ops.  He updated the 68k machine description so that Motorola's
  62 opcodes always produced fixed-size instructions (e.g. jsr), while
  63 synthetic instructions remained shrinkable (jbsr).  John fixed many
  64 bugs, including true tested cross-compilation support, and one bug in
  65 relaxation that took a week and required the apocryphal one-bit fix.
  66
  67 Ian Lance Taylor of Cygnus Support merged the Motorola and MIT
  68 syntaxes for the 68k, completed support for some COFF targets (68k,
  69 i386 SVR3, and SCO Unix), wrote the ECOFF support based on Michael
  70 Meissner's mips-tfile program, wrote the PowerPC and RS/6000 support,
  71 and made a few other minor patches.
  72
  73 Steve Chamberlain made gas able to generate listings.
  74
  75 Support for the HP9000/300 was contributed by Glenn Engel of HP.
  76
  77 Support for ELF format files has been worked on by Mark Eichin of
  78 Cygnus Support (original, incomplete implementation), Pete Hoogenboom
  79 at the University of Utah (HPPA mainly), Michael Meissner of the Open
  80 Software Foundation (i386 mainly), and Ken Raeburn of Cygnus Support
  81 (sparc, initial 64-bit support).
  82
  83 Several engineers at Cygnus Support have also provided many small bug
  84 fixes and configuration enhancements.
  85
  86
  87 Many others have contributed large or small bugfixes and enhancements.  If
  88 you've contributed significant work and are not mentioned on this list, and
  89 want to be, let us know.  Some of the history has been lost; we aren't
  90 intentionally leaving anyone out.