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8 @unnumbered Contributors to GCC
11 The GCC project would like to thank its many contributors. Without them the
12 project would not have been nearly as successful as it has been. Any omissions
13 in this list are accidental. Feel free to contact
14 @email{law@@redhat.com} or @email{gerald@@pfeifer.com} if you have been left
15 out or some of your contributions are not listed. Please keep this list in
21 Analog Devices helped implement the support for complex data types
25 John David Anglin for threading-related fixes and improvements to
26 libstdc++-v3, and the HP-UX port.
29 James van Artsdalen wrote the code that makes efficient use of
30 the Intel 80387 register stack.
33 Abramo and Roberto Bagnara for the SysV68 Motorola 3300 Delta Series
37 Alasdair Baird for various bug fixes.
40 Giovanni Bajo for analyzing lots of complicated C++ problem reports.
43 Peter Barada for his work to improve code generation for new
47 Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end.
50 Godmar Back for his Java improvements and encouragement.
53 Scott Bambrough for help porting the Java compiler.
56 Wolfgang Bangerth for processing tons of bug reports.
59 Jon Beniston for his Microsoft Windows port of Java and port to Lattice Mico32.
62 Daniel Berlin for better DWARF2 support, faster/better optimizations,
63 improved alias analysis, plus migrating GCC to Bugzilla.
66 Geoff Berry for his Java object serialization work and various patches.
69 David Binderman tests weekly snapshots of GCC trunk against Fedora Rawhide
70 for several architectures.
73 Uros Bizjak for the implementation of x87 math built-in functions and
74 for various middle end and i386 back end improvements and bug fixes.
77 Eric Blake for helping to make GCJ and libgcj conform to the
81 Janne Blomqvist for contributions to GNU Fortran.
84 Segher Boessenkool for various fixes.
87 Hans-J. Boehm for his @uref{http://www.hpl.hp.com/@/personal/@/Hans_Boehm/@/gc/,,
88 garbage collector}, IA-64 libffi port, and other Java work.
91 Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other
92 miscellaneous clean-ups.
95 Steven Bosscher for integrating the GNU Fortran front end into GCC and for
96 contributing to the tree-ssa branch.
99 Eric Botcazou for fixing middle- and backend bugs left and right.
102 Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
103 improvements to the infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
104 front end implementation. Initial implementations of
105 cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++)
106 maintainer. Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of GCJ@.
109 Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
112 Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
115 Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
118 Paul Brook for work on the ARM architecture and maintaining GNU Fortran.
121 Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
124 Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
127 Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
130 Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ@.
133 Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
136 Craig Burley for leadership of the G77 Fortran effort.
139 Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++.
142 Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to
143 the C++ strings, streambufs and formatted I/O, hard detective work on
144 the frustrating localization issues, and keeping up with the problem reports.
147 John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
148 previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
151 Stephane Carrez for 68HC11 and 68HC12 ports.
154 Steve Chamberlain for support for the Renesas SH and H8 processors
155 and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.
158 Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ@.
161 John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches.
164 Denis Chertykov for contributing and maintaining the AVR port, the first GCC port
165 for an 8-bit architecture.
168 Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
171 Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.
174 Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
177 The @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/,,GNU Classpath project}
178 for all of their merged runtime code.
181 Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r, rx work,
182 @option{--help}, and other random hacking.
185 Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings.
188 R. Kelley Cook for making GCC buildable from a read-only directory as
189 well as other miscellaneous build process and documentation clean-ups.
192 Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bug fixing.
195 Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
199 Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
202 Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
205 Paul Dale for his work to add uClinux platform support to the
209 Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
210 that print a copy of their source.
213 Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.
216 Bud Davis for work on the G77 and GNU Fortran compilers.
219 Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes.
222 DJ Delorie for the DJGPP port, build and libiberty maintenance,
223 various bug fixes, and the M32C, MeP, and RL78 ports.
226 Arnaud Desitter for helping to debug GNU Fortran.
229 Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to G++, contributions and
230 maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3,
231 including @code{valarray<>}, @code{complex<>}, maintaining the numerics library
232 (including that pesky @code{<limits>} :-) and keeping up-to-date anything
236 Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99
237 support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime
238 libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and
239 maintaining @code{complex<>}, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration
240 architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.
243 Zdenek Dvorak for a new loop unroller and various fixes.
246 Michael Eager for his work on the Xilinx MicroBlaze port.
249 Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
252 David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work
253 with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes,
254 doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands, and for
255 ensuring GCC properly keeps working on AIX@.
258 Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in
262 Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery,
263 documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional
264 iostream bug fix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
267 Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
270 Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++
271 configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.
274 Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.
277 Christian Ehrhardt for dealing with bug reports.
280 Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
281 own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
284 Revital Eres for work on the PowerPC 750CL port.
287 Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
290 Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
294 Christopher Faylor for his work on the Cygwin port and for caring and
295 feeding the gcc.gnu.org box and saving its users tons of spam.
298 Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
301 Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portuguese translation of the GCJ FAQ@.
304 Peter Gerwinski for various bug fixes and the Pascal front end.
307 Kaveh R.@: Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee, amazing
308 work to make @samp{-W -Wall -W* -Werror} useful, and continuously
309 testing GCC on a plethora of platforms. Kaveh extends his gratitude to
310 the @uref{http://www.caip.rutgers.edu,,CAIP Center} at Rutgers
311 University for providing him with computing resources to work on Free
312 Software since the late 1980s.
315 John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.
318 Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
321 Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
322 multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
323 support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
324 via the steering committee.
327 Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions, the moxie port, and
331 Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug Java code.
334 Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
337 Richard Guenther for his ongoing middle-end contributions and bug fixes
338 and for release management.
341 Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
342 tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
343 the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
344 Intel 386 and 860 support.
347 Mostafa Hagog for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS) and post reload GCSE@.
350 Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
351 warnings and assorted bug fixes.
354 Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
357 Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
360 Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
361 the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
365 Dara Hazeghi for wading through myriads of target-specific bug reports.
368 Kate Hedstrom for staking the G77 folks with an initial testsuite.
371 Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, ia32, and ia64 work, loop
372 opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
373 years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
377 Aldy Hernandez for working on the PowerPC port, SIMD support, and
381 Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
382 the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
385 Kazu Hirata for caring and feeding the Renesas H8/300 port and various fixes.
388 Katherine Holcomb for work on GNU Fortran.
391 Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
392 of testing and bug fixing, particularly of GCC configury code.
395 Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
398 Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
401 Falk Hueffner for working on C and optimization bug reports.
404 Bernardo Innocenti for his m68k work, including merging of
405 ColdFire improvements and uClinux support.
408 Christian Iseli for various bug fixes.
411 Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
414 Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
417 Andreas Jaeger for testing and benchmarking of GCC and various bug fixes.
420 Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
421 as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
425 Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes, her quality improvement
426 sidetracks, and web page maintenance.
429 Kean Johnston for SCO OpenServer support and various fixes.
432 Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
433 Kenner's ``toy'' language.
436 Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation.
439 Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
442 Steven G. Kargl for work on GNU Fortran.
445 David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
448 Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bug fixes and optimizations of
449 strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.
452 Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
453 and his automatic regression tester.
456 Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with G++ and for a lot of early work
457 in just about every part of libstdc++.
460 Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
464 Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
465 Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
466 Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
467 instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
468 processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
469 strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
470 code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
471 elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
472 head maintainer of GCC for several years.
475 Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and
476 maintaining binary releases for Microsoft Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++
477 porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32.
480 Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
483 Mark Klein for PA improvements.
486 Thomas Koenig for various bug fixes.
489 Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
492 Benjamin Kosnik for his G++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
495 Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
499 Asher Langton and Mike Kumbera for contributing Cray pointer support
500 to GNU Fortran, and for other GNU Fortran improvements.
503 Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
504 entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
505 handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
506 fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
509 Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
510 with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
513 Victor Leikehman for work on GNU Fortran.
516 Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
519 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for C++ improvements including template as template
520 parameter support, and many C++ fixes.
523 Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
524 random work on the Java front end.
527 Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU@.
530 Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and
534 Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
537 Chen Liqin for various S+core related fixes/improvement, and for
538 maintaining the S+core port.
541 Weiwen Liu for testing and various bug fixes.
544 Manuel L@'opez-Ib@'a@~nez for improving @option{-Wconversion} and
545 many other diagnostics fixes and improvements.
548 Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
552 Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
553 various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of
554 assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges.
557 H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
558 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
561 Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
564 Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
565 various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
568 Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking
569 improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and
570 direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and
571 implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler.
574 Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
577 Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and
578 improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.
581 All of the Mauve project
582 @uref{http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/mauve/THANKS?rev=1.2&cvsroot=mauve&only_with_tag=HEAD,,contributors},
586 Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.
589 Adam Megacz for his work on the Microsoft Windows port of GCJ@.
592 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
593 powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
596 Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
600 Martin Michlmayr for testing GCC on several architectures using the
601 entire Debian archive.
604 David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
605 SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
609 Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
612 Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bug fixes, and turning the
613 entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.
616 Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
617 C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
618 ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.x.
621 Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
624 Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
625 maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
628 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
629 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
630 services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and
631 the backs of envelopes would have been@dots{} difficult.
634 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
635 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
639 Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.
642 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements, and for the initial
646 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
647 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
648 than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
651 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
654 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
657 Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
658 C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
661 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship
662 through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale
663 infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project
664 documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on
665 MT-safe string and shadow headers.
668 Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.
671 Nathanael Nerode for cleaning up the configuration/build process.
674 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
678 Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
679 engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
682 Geoff Noer for his work on getting cygwin native builds working.
685 Diego Novillo for his work on Tree SSA, OpenMP, SPEC performance
686 tracking web pages, GIMPLE tuples, and assorted fixes.
689 David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
690 FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
694 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
695 amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy.
698 Stefan Olsson for work on mt_alloc.
701 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
704 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to GCC's o32
705 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
706 clean-ups and porting work, and maintaining the IRIX, Solaris 2, and
710 Hartmut Penner for work on the s390 port.
713 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
716 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and
717 continued Java maintainership.
720 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
723 Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
724 out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
725 taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
728 Andrew Pinski for processing bug reports by the dozen.
731 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
735 Jerry Quinn for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O@.
738 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
739 cleanups in the compiler.
742 Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT@.
745 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
749 Volker Reichelt for keeping up with the problem reports.
752 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
753 hacking and developing and maintaining the Epiphany port.
756 Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD
757 port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical
758 threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems,
759 as well as keeping GCC properly working on FreeBSD and continuous testing.
762 Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
765 Ola R@"onnerup for work on mt_alloc.
768 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
771 David Ronis inspired and encouraged Craig to rewrite the G77
772 documentation in texinfo format by contributing a first pass at a
773 translation of the old @file{g77-0.5.16/f/DOC} file.
776 Ken Rose for fixes to GCC's delay slot filling code.
779 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
782 P@'etur Run@'olfsson for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O and
783 large file support in C++ filebuf.
786 Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits,
787 Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support.
790 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
793 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
796 Roger Sayle for improvements to constant folding and GCC's RTL optimizers
797 as well as for fixing numerous bugs.
800 Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ@.
803 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
806 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
809 Tobias Schl@"uter for work on GNU Fortran.
812 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
813 work in the reload pass, serving as release manager for
814 GCC 2.95.3, and work on the Blackfin and C6X ports.
817 Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++---especially application
818 testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release
819 criteria---and libstdc++ header file tweaks.
822 Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.
825 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
828 Lars Segerlund for work on GNU Fortran.
831 Dodji Seketeli for numerous C++ bug fixes and debug info improvements.
834 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
835 contributions and RTEMS testing.
838 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
841 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
842 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
843 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
846 Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from
847 the LWG (thereby keeping GCC in line with updates from the ISO)@.
850 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
854 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
857 Trevor Smigiel for contributing the SPU port.
860 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
863 Danny Smith for his major efforts on the Mingw (and Cygwin) ports.
866 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
869 Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++
870 testsuite entries. Also for providing the patch to G77 to add
871 rudimentary support for @code{INTEGER*1}, @code{INTEGER*2}, and
875 Zdenek Sojka for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting
879 Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique.
882 Richard Stallman, for writing the original GCC and launching the GNU project.
885 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
886 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
889 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
892 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
895 Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
898 John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.
901 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, G++ contributions over the years and more
902 recently his vxworks contributions
905 Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.
908 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
911 Ian Lance Taylor for the Go frontend, the initial mips16 and mips64
912 support, general configury hacking, fixincludes, etc.
915 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU@.
918 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
921 Philipp Thomas for random bug fixes throughout the compiler
924 Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD@.
927 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
928 language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
931 Michael Tiemann for random bug fixes, the first instruction scheduler,
932 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
933 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
936 Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.
939 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
942 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
943 definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
946 Daniel Towner and Hariharan Sandanagobalane contributed and
947 maintain the picoChip port.
950 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java
951 contributions and libgcj maintainership.
954 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
958 Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes.
961 Andy Vaught for the design and initial implementation of the GNU Fortran
965 Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their
966 associated configure steps.
969 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
972 Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML
976 Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
980 Krister Walfridsson for random bug fixes.
983 Feng Wang for contributions to GNU Fortran.
986 Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files
987 work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time
991 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
992 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
993 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
996 Ulrich Weigand for work on the s390 port.
999 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bug fixes.
1002 Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ@.
1005 Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.
1008 Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with
1012 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
1015 Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
1018 Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
1019 problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
1020 reduction and other loop optimizations.
1023 Paul Woegerer and Tal Agmon for the CRX port.
1026 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
1029 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
1032 Canqun Yang for work on GNU Fortran.
1035 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
1036 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
1039 Kevin Zachmann helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
1042 Ayal Zaks for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS).
1045 Xiaoqiang Zhang for work on GNU Fortran.
1048 Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.
1052 The following people are recognized for their contributions to GNAT,
1053 the Ada front end of GCC:
1199 The following people are recognized for their contributions of new
1200 features, bug reports, testing and integration of classpath/libgcj for
1204 Lillian Angel for @code{JTree} implementation and lots Free Swing
1205 additions and bug fixes.
1208 Wolfgang Baer for @code{GapContent} bug fixes.
1211 Anthony Balkissoon for @code{JList}, Free Swing 1.5 updates and mouse event
1212 fixes, lots of Free Swing work including @code{JTable} editing.
1215 Stuart Ballard for RMI constant fixes.
1218 Goffredo Baroncelli for @code{HTTPURLConnection} fixes.
1221 Gary Benson for @code{MessageFormat} fixes.
1224 Daniel Bonniot for @code{Serialization} fixes.
1227 Chris Burdess for lots of gnu.xml and http protocol fixes, @code{StAX}
1228 and @code{DOM xml:id} support.
1231 Ka-Hing Cheung for @code{TreePath} and @code{TreeSelection} fixes.
1234 Archie Cobbs for build fixes, VM interface updates,
1235 @code{URLClassLoader} updates.
1238 Kelley Cook for build fixes.
1241 Martin Cordova for Suggestions for better @code{SocketTimeoutException}.
1244 David Daney for @code{BitSet} bug fixes, @code{HttpURLConnection}
1245 rewrite and improvements.
1248 Thomas Fitzsimmons for lots of upgrades to the gtk+ AWT and Cairo 2D
1249 support. Lots of imageio framework additions, lots of AWT and Free
1253 Jeroen Frijters for @code{ClassLoader} and nio cleanups, serialization fixes,
1254 better @code{Proxy} support, bug fixes and IKVM integration.
1257 Santiago Gala for @code{AccessControlContext} fixes.
1260 Nicolas Geoffray for @code{VMClassLoader} and @code{AccessController}
1264 David Gilbert for @code{basic} and @code{metal} icon and plaf support
1265 and lots of documenting, Lots of Free Swing and metal theme
1266 additions. @code{MetalIconFactory} implementation.
1269 Anthony Green for @code{MIDI} framework, @code{ALSA} and @code{DSSI}
1273 Andrew Haley for @code{Serialization} and @code{URLClassLoader} fixes,
1277 Kim Ho for @code{JFileChooser} implementation.
1280 Andrew John Hughes for @code{Locale} and net fixes, URI RFC2986
1281 updates, @code{Serialization} fixes, @code{Properties} XML support and
1282 generic branch work, VMIntegration guide update.
1285 Bastiaan Huisman for @code{TimeZone} bug fixing.
1288 Andreas Jaeger for mprec updates.
1291 Paul Jenner for better @option{-Werror} support.
1294 Ito Kazumitsu for @code{NetworkInterface} implementation and updates.
1297 Roman Kennke for @code{BoxLayout}, @code{GrayFilter} and
1298 @code{SplitPane}, plus bug fixes all over. Lots of Free Swing work
1299 including styled text.
1302 Simon Kitching for @code{String} cleanups and optimization suggestions.
1305 Michael Koch for configuration fixes, @code{Locale} updates, bug and
1309 Guilhem Lavaux for configuration, thread and channel fixes and Kaffe
1310 integration. JCL native @code{Pointer} updates. Logger bug fixes.
1313 David Lichteblau for JCL support library global/local reference
1317 Aaron Luchko for JDWP updates and documentation fixes.
1320 Ziga Mahkovec for @code{Graphics2D} upgraded to Cairo 0.5 and new regex
1324 Sven de Marothy for BMP imageio support, CSS and @code{TextLayout}
1325 fixes. @code{GtkImage} rewrite, 2D, awt, free swing and date/time fixes and
1326 implementing the Qt4 peers.
1329 Casey Marshall for crypto algorithm fixes, @code{FileChannel} lock,
1330 @code{SystemLogger} and @code{FileHandler} rotate implementations, NIO
1331 @code{FileChannel.map} support, security and policy updates.
1334 Bryce McKinlay for RMI work.
1337 Audrius Meskauskas for lots of Free Corba, RMI and HTML work plus
1338 testing and documenting.
1341 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo for build fixes.
1344 Rainer Orth for build fixes.
1347 Andrew Overholt for @code{File} locking fixes.
1350 Ingo Proetel for @code{Image}, @code{Logger} and @code{URLClassLoader}
1354 Olga Rodimina for @code{MenuSelectionManager} implementation.
1357 Jan Roehrich for @code{BasicTreeUI} and @code{JTree} fixes.
1360 Julian Scheid for documentation updates and gjdoc support.
1363 Christian Schlichtherle for zip fixes and cleanups.
1366 Robert Schuster for documentation updates and beans fixes,
1367 @code{TreeNode} enumerations and @code{ActionCommand} and various
1368 fixes, XML and URL, AWT and Free Swing bug fixes.
1371 Keith Seitz for lots of JDWP work.
1374 Christian Thalinger for 64-bit cleanups, Configuration and VM
1375 interface fixes and @code{CACAO} integration, @code{fdlibm} updates.
1378 Gael Thomas for @code{VMClassLoader} boot packages support suggestions.
1381 Andreas Tobler for Darwin and Solaris testing and fixing, @code{Qt4}
1382 support for Darwin/OS X, @code{Graphics2D} support, @code{gtk+}
1386 Dalibor Topic for better @code{DEBUG} support, build cleanups and
1387 Kaffe integration. @code{Qt4} build infrastructure, @code{SHA1PRNG}
1388 and @code{GdkPixbugDecoder} updates.
1391 Tom Tromey for Eclipse integration, generics work, lots of bug fixes
1392 and gcj integration including coordinating The Big Merge.
1395 Mark Wielaard for bug fixes, packaging and release management,
1396 @code{Clipboard} implementation, system call interrupts and network
1397 timeouts and @code{GdkPixpufDecoder} fixes.
1402 In addition to the above, all of which also contributed time and energy in
1403 testing GCC, we would like to thank the following for their contributions
1408 Michael Abd-El-Malek
1477 Charles-Antoine Gauthier
1642 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, provides
1643 feedback and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first