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Acknowledgements

If you have contributed to as 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 Ken Raeburn (email address: raeburn@cygnus.com).

- Dean Elsner wrote the original GNU assembler for the VAX.
- Jay Fenlason maintained as 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 as for a while, adding various enhancements and many bug fixes, including merging support for several processors, breaking as 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 as 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 In-stitute 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 Hitachi H8/300 and H8/500 processors (tc-z8k, tc-h8300, tc-h8500), 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 Solutions 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, and made a few other minor patches.
- Steve Chamberlain made as able to generate listings.
- Hewlett-Packard contributed support for the HP9000/300.
- Jeff Law wrote as 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 Solutions.
- Support for ELF format files has been worked on by Mark Eichin of Cygnus Solutions (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 Solutions (SPARC, and some initial 64-bit support).
- Several engineers at Cygnus Solutions have also provided many small bug fixes and configuration enhancements. 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.