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
  11 ++++++++++++++++
  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 Mark Eichin wrote the original (incomplete) ELF back end.
  49
  50 Keith Knowles at the Open Software Foundation wrote the original MIPS
  51 back end (tc-mips.c, tc-mips.h), and contributed Rose format support
  52 that hasn't been merged in yet.  Ralph Campbell worked with the MIPS
  53 code to support a.out format.
  54
  55 Support for the Zilog Z8k and Hitachi H8/300 and H8/500 processors
  56 (tc-z8k, tc-h8300, tc-h8500), and IEEE 695 object file format
  57 (obj-ieee), was written by Steve Chamberlain of Cygnus Support.  Steve
  58 also modified the COFF back end to use BFD for some low-level
  59 operations, for use with the H8/300 and AMD 29k targets.
  60
  61 John Gilmore worked on the AMD 29000 support.  [doing what?  any major
  62 work on other parts?]
  63
  64 Ian Lance Taylor of Cygnus Support merged the Motorola and MIT
  65 syntaxes for the 68k, completed support for some COFF targets (68k,
  66 i386 SVR3, and SCO Unix), and made a few other minor patches.
  67
  68 Support for generation of listings was added by Steve Chamberlain.
  69
  70 Several engineers at Cygnus Support have also provided many small bug
  71 fixes and configuration enhancements.
  72
  73
  74 Many others have contributed large or small bugfixes and enhancements,
  75 including: [review ChangeLog and file comments and sort out
  76 details...]
  77
  78 Allen Wirfs-Brock, of Instantiations Inc [changed app.c, but how much?]