If you've contributed to gas and your name isn't listed here, it is
not meant as a slight. I just don't know about it. Email me,
-raeburn@cygnus.com and I'll correct the situation.
+nickc@redhat.com and I'll correct the situation.
This file will eventually be deleted: The general info will go into
the documentation, and info on specific files will go into an AUTHORS
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
-modules.
+Ken Raeburn wrote the high-level BFD 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.
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 (obj-coffbfd) to use BFD for some
-low-level operations, for use with the Hitachi, 29k and Zilog targets.
+(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
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.
+relaxation that took a week and required the proverbial one-bit fix.
-Ian Lance Taylor of Cygnus Support merged the Motorola and MIT
+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.
+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.
Steve Chamberlain made gas able to generate listings.
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).
+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.
-Several engineers at Cygnus Support have also provided many small bug
-fixes and configuration enhancements.
+Klaus Kaempf ported the assembler and the binutils to openVMS/Alpha.
+Steve Haworth contributed the support for the Texas Instruction c30
+(tms320c30).
+
+H.J. Lu has contributed many patches and much testing.
+
+Alan Modra reworked much of the i386 backend, improving the error
+checking, updating the code, and improving the 16 bit support, using
+patches from the work of Martynas Kunigelis and H.J. Lu.
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.
+\f
+Copyright (C) 2012-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
+are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
+notice and this notice are preserved.
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