The GNU Development Chain for 68HC11/68HC12 is a project that I started in end 1998. The initial motivation was to have a cross 68HC11 C compiler for EBCS. In August 1999, a first version was running, in September 2000 it was integrated in FSF mainline sources and in November 2001, the gnu-m68hc11 mailing list reached 300 members.

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This project took me a big amount of time (hum,... well a lot of nights!). I've tracked the time using my Xcra tool. Below is a summary by year.

Year	Time	Major events
2002	567h	Dec 1, gnu-m68hc11 reached 450 members and more than 2000 messages Nov 17, Release 2.1 (gcc 3.0.4, binutils 2.12.1, gdb 5.2.1) Sep 20, Release 2.0 (gcc 3.0.4, binutils 2.12.1, gdb 5.2.1) Jun 27, Beta release 1.9d (gcc 3.0.4, binutils 2.12.1, gdb 5.2) Mar 27, Alpha release 1.9c (gcc 3.0.4, binutils 2.11.2, gdb 5.1) Mar 9, gnu-m68hc11 mailing list reaches 320 members Feb 3, Alpha release 1.9b (gcc 3.0.3, binutils 2.11.2, gdb 5.0) Jan 8, Alpha release 1.9a (gcc 3.0.3, binutils 2.11.2, gdb 5.0)
2001	1023h	Oct 14, Release 1.1.1 (gcc 2.95.3, binutils 2.11.2, gdb 5.0) Sep 29, Release 1.1 (gcc 2.95.3, binutils 2.11, gdb 5.0) May 8, Release 1.0 (gcc 2.95.3, binutils 2.11, gdb 5.0) Mar 9, Creation of http://www.gnu-m68hc11.org Jan 14, Release 0.9c (gcc 2.95.2, binutils 2.10, gdb 5.0)
2000	937h	Sep 17, Release 0.9b (gcc 2.95.2, binutils 2.10, gdb 5.0) Sep 10, Gcc HC11/HC12 port integrated in FSF mainline sources Aug 3, Release 0.9a of GNU HC11/HC12 (gcc 2.95.2, binutils 2.10, gdb 5.0) July 27, Gdb and Binutils HC11/HC12 port integrated in FSF mainline sources Jan 6, Creation of gnu-m68hc11 mailing list
1999	699h	Nov 29, patch for gcc 2.95.2 Sep 5, first public patch for gcc 2.95.1 Aug 14, first public patch for gcc 2.95