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 11 Acknowledgements
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 If you have contributed to GAS and your name isn't listed here, it is
 not meant as a slight.  We just don't know about it.  Send mail to the
 maintainer, and we'll correct the situation.  Currently the maintainer
 is Nick Clifton (email address 'nickc@redhat.com').
 
    Dean Elsner wrote the original GNU assembler for the VAX.(1)
 
    Jay Fenlason maintained GAS for a while, adding support for
 GDB-specific debug information and the 68k series machines, most of the
 preprocessing pass, and extensive changes in 'messages.c',
 'input-file.c', 'write.c'.
 
    K. Richard Pixley maintained GAS for a while, adding various
 enhancements and many bug fixes, including merging support for several
 processors, breaking GAS up to handle multiple object file format back
 ends (including heavy rewrite, testing, an integration of the coff and
 b.out back ends), adding configuration including heavy testing and
 verification of cross assemblers and file splits and renaming, converted
 GAS to strictly ANSI C including full prototypes, added support for
 m680[34]0 and cpu32, did considerable work on i960 including a COFF port
 (including considerable amounts of reverse engineering), a SPARC opcode
 file rewrite, DECstation, rs6000, and hp300hpux host ports, updated
 "know" assertions and made them work, much other reorganization,
 cleanup, and lint.
 
    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 Intel 80386 machine description was written by Eliot Dresselhaus.
 
    Minh Tran-Le at IntelliCorp contributed some AIX 386 support.
 
    The Motorola 88k machine description was contributed by Devon Bowen
 of Buffalo University and Torbjorn Granlund of the Swedish Institute of
 Computer Science.
 
    Keith Knowles at the Open Software Foundation wrote the original MIPS
 back end ('tc-mips.c', 'tc-mips.h'), and contributed Rose format support
 (which hasn't been merged in yet).  Ralph Campbell worked with the MIPS
 code to support a.out format.
 
    Support for the Zilog Z8k and Renesas H8/300 processors (tc-z8k,
 tc-h8300), and IEEE 695 object file format (obj-ieee), was written by
 Steve Chamberlain of Cygnus Support.  Steve also modified the COFF back
 end to use BFD for some low-level operations, for use with the H8/300
 and AMD 29k targets.
 
    John Gilmore built the AMD 29000 support, added '.include' support,
 and simplified the configuration of which versions accept which
 directives.  He updated the 68k machine description so that Motorola's
 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 proverbial one-bit fix.
 
    Ian Lance Taylor of Cygnus Support merged the Motorola and MIT syntax
 for the 68k, completed support for some COFF targets (68k, i386 SVR3,
 and SCO Unix), added support for MIPS ECOFF and ELF targets, wrote the
 initial RS/6000 and PowerPC assembler, and made a few other minor
 patches.
 
    Steve Chamberlain made GAS able to generate listings.
 
    Hewlett-Packard contributed support for the HP9000/300.
 
    Jeff Law wrote GAS and BFD support for the native HPPA object format
 (SOM) along with a fairly extensive HPPA testsuite (for both SOM and ELF
 object formats).  This work was supported by both the Center for
 Software Science at the University of Utah and Cygnus Support.
 
    Support for ELF format files has been worked on by Mark Eichin of
 Cygnus Support (original, incomplete implementation for SPARC), Pete
 Hoogenboom and Jeff Law at the University of Utah (HPPA mainly), Michael
 Meissner of the Open Software Foundation (i386 mainly), and Ken Raeburn
 of Cygnus Support (sparc, and some initial 64-bit support).
 
    Linas Vepstas added GAS support for the ESA/390 "IBM 370"
 architecture.
 
    Richard Henderson rewrote the Alpha assembler.  Klaus Kaempf wrote
 GAS and BFD support for openVMS/Alpha.
 
    Timothy Wall, Michael Hayes, and Greg Smart contributed to the
 various tic* flavors.
 
    David Heine, Sterling Augustine, Bob Wilson and John Ruttenberg from
 Tensilica, Inc. added support for Xtensa processors.
 
    Several engineers at Cygnus Support have also provided many small bug
 fixes and configuration enhancements.
 
    Jon Beniston added support for the Lattice Mico32 architecture.
 
    Many others have contributed large or small bugfixes and
 enhancements.  If you have 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 are not intentionally leaving anyone out.
 
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