History of gas

History of gas

[jacob navia]

Hi

I have been adding a « history » chapter to my documentation, and I have some questions about it.

1) Why there isn’t any AUTHORS file?
2) The earliest CONTRIBUTORS file that I found was binutils 2.19. (1988). Is there any earlier version?
3) What about later versions?
4) At the end of the CONTRIBUTORS file I found the name of A. Modra, and I know that he is still active in this endeavor. 

Maybe you could help me a bit Alan? 

Some people you want to name that are absent from the CONTRIBUTORS (1988) file?
Pointers to later AUTHORS file?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Jacob

Re: History of gas

[Ian Lance Taylor]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 2:41 PM jacob navia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> wrote:
>
> I have been adding a « history » chapter to my documentation, and I have some questions about it.
>
> 1) Why there isn’t any AUTHORS file?

The GNU binutils doesn't use an AUTHORS file.  For that matter,
neither does GCC.

> 2) The earliest CONTRIBUTORS file that I found was binutils 2.19. (1988). Is there any earlier version?

I'm not sure what the 1988 reference is here, unless you are referring
to the original version of gas.  I think the binutils 2.19 release was
in 2008.

> 3) What about later versions?

See the ChangeLog files, which date back to 1992.

Ian