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@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ Ken Raeburn currently maintains gas, and wrote the high-level BFD
interface code to replace most of the code in format-specific I/O interface code to replace most of the code in format-specific I/O
modules. modules.
The original VMS support was contributed by David L. Kashtan. Eric The original Vax-VMS support was contributed by David L. Kashtan.
Youngdale has done much work with it since. Eric Youngdale and Pat Rankin have done much work with it since.
The Intel 80386 machine description was written by Eliot Dresselhaus. The Intel 80386 machine description was written by Eliot Dresselhaus.
@ -52,9 +52,10 @@ code to support a.out format.
Support for the Zilog Z8k and Hitachi H8/300, H8/500 and SH processors 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 (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 (obj-ieee), was written by Steve Chamberlain of Cygnus Solutions.
also modified the COFF back end (obj-coffbfd) to use BFD for some Steve also modified the COFF back end (obj-coffbfd) to use BFD for
low-level operations, for use with the Hitachi, 29k and Zilog targets. some low-level operations, for use with the Hitachi, 29k and Zilog
targets.
John Gilmore built the AMD 29000 support, added .include support, and John Gilmore built the AMD 29000 support, added .include support, and
simplified the configuration of which versions accept which simplified the configuration of which versions accept which
@ -62,27 +63,46 @@ pseudo-ops. He updated the 68k machine description so that Motorola's
opcodes always produced fixed-size instructions (e.g. jsr), while opcodes always produced fixed-size instructions (e.g. jsr), while
synthetic instructions remained shrinkable (jbsr). John fixed many synthetic instructions remained shrinkable (jbsr). John fixed many
bugs, including true tested cross-compilation support, and one bug in 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, syntaxes for the 68k, completed support for some COFF targets (68k,
i386 SVR3, and SCO Unix), wrote the ECOFF support based on Michael i386 SVR3, and SCO Unix), wrote the ECOFF support based on Michael
Meissner's mips-tfile program, wrote the PowerPC and RS/6000 support, 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. Steve Chamberlain made gas able to generate listings.
Support for the HP9000/300 was contributed by Glenn Engel of HP. 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 Support for ELF format files has been worked on by Mark Eichin of
Cygnus Support (original, incomplete implementation), Pete Hoogenboom Cygnus Solutions (original, incomplete implementation), Pete
at the University of Utah (HPPA mainly), Michael Meissner of the Open Hoogenboom at the University of Utah (HPPA mainly), Michael Meissner
Software Foundation (i386 mainly), and Ken Raeburn of Cygnus Support of the Open Software Foundation (i386 mainly), and Ken Raeburn of
(sparc, initial 64-bit support). Cygnus Solutions (sparc, initial 64-bit support).
Several engineers at Cygnus Support have also provided many small bug Several engineers at Cygnus Solutions have also provided many small
fixes and configuration enhancements. 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.
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 and updating the code.
Many others have contributed large or small bugfixes and enhancements. If Many others have contributed large or small bugfixes and enhancements. If
you've contributed significant work and are not mentioned on this list, and you've contributed significant work and are not mentioned on this list, and