1 @c Copyright (C) 1988,1989,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,
2 @c 2001,2002,2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 @c This is part of the GCC manual.
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7 @unnumbered Contributors to GCC
10 The GCC project would like to thank its many contributors. Without them the
11 project would not have been nearly as successful as it has been. Any omissions
12 in this list are accidental. Feel free to contact
13 @email{law@@redhat.com} or @email{gerald@@pfeifer.com} if you have been left
14 out or some of your contributions are not listed. Please keep this list in
20 Analog Devices helped implement the support for complex data types
24 John David Anglin for threading-related fixes and improvements to
25 libstdc++-v3, and the HP-UX port.
28 James van Artsdalen wrote the code that makes efficient use of
29 the Intel 80387 register stack.
32 Abramo and Roberto Bagnara for the SysV68 Motorola 3300 Delta Series
36 Alasdair Baird for various bug fixes.
39 Peter Barada for his work to improve code generation for new
43 Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end.
46 Godmar Back for his Java improvements and encouragement.
49 Scott Bambrough for help porting the Java compiler.
52 Wolfgang Bangerth for processing tons of bug reports.
55 Jon Beniston for his Windows port of Java.
58 Daniel Berlin for better DWARF2 support, faster/better optimizations,
59 improved alias analysis, plus migrating us to Bugzilla.
62 Geoff Berry for his Java object serialization work and various patches.
65 Eric Blake for helping to make GCJ and libgcj conform to the
69 Segher Boessenkool for various fixes.
72 Hans-J. Boehm for his @uref{http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/,,
73 garbage collector}, IA-64 libffi port, and other Java work.
76 Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other
77 miscellaneous clean-ups.
80 Eric Botcazou for fixing middle- and backend bugs left and right.
83 Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
84 improvements to our infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
85 front end implementation. Initial implementations of
86 cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++)
87 maintainer. Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of GCJ.
90 Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
93 Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
96 Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
99 Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
102 Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
105 Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
108 Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ.
111 Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
114 Craig Burley for leadership of the Fortran effort.
117 Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++.
120 Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to
121 the string class, hard detective work on the frustrating localization
122 issues, and keeping up with the problem reports.
125 John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
126 previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
129 Stephane Carrez for 68HC11 and 68HC12 ports.
132 Steve Chamberlain for support for the Renesas SH and H8 processors
133 and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.
136 Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ.
139 John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches.
142 Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
145 Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.
148 Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
151 The @uref{http://www.classpath.org,,GNU Classpath project}
152 for all of their merged runtime code.
155 Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and
156 other random hacking.
159 Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings.
162 Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing.
165 Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
169 Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
172 Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
175 Paul Dale for his work to add uClinux platform support to the
179 Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
180 that print a copy of their source.
183 Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.
186 Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes.
189 DJ Delorie for the DJGPP port, build and libiberty maintenance, and
193 Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to g++, contributions and
194 maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3,
195 including valarray<>, complex<>, maintaining the numerics library
196 (including that pesky <limits> :-) and keeping up-to-date anything
200 Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99
201 support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime
202 libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and
203 maintaining complex<>, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration
204 architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.
207 Zdenek Dvorak for a new loop unroller and various fixes.
210 Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
213 David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work
214 with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes,
215 doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands, and for
216 ensuring GCC properly keeps working on AIX.
219 Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in
223 Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery,
224 documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional
225 iostream bug fix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
228 Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
231 Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++
232 configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.
235 Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.
238 Christian Ehrhardt for dealing with bug reports.
241 Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
242 own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
245 Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
248 Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
252 Christopher Faylor for his work on the Cygwin port and for caring and
253 feeding the gcc.gnu.org box and saving its users tons of spam.
256 Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
259 Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portugese translation of the GCJ FAQ.
262 Peter Gerwinski for various bug fixes and the Pascal front end.
265 Kaveh Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee,
266 amazing work to make @samp{-W -Wall} useful, and continuously testing
267 GCC on a plethora of platforms.
270 John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.
273 Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
276 Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
277 multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
278 support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
279 via the steering committee.
282 Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work.
285 Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug our code.
288 Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
291 Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
292 tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
293 the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
294 Intel 386 and 860 support.
297 Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
298 warnings and assorted bug fixes.
301 Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
304 Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
307 Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
308 the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
312 Kate Hedstrom for staking the g77 folks with an initial testsuite.
315 Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, ia32, and ia64 work, loop
316 opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
317 years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
321 Aldy Hernandez for working on the PowerPC port, SIMD support, and
325 Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
326 the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
329 Kazu Hirata for caring and feeding the Renesas H8/300 port and various fixes.
332 Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
333 of testing and bug fixing, particularly of our configury code.
336 Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
339 Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
342 Bernardo Innocenti for his m68k work, including merging of
343 ColdFire improvements and uClinux support.
346 Christian Iseli for various bug fixes.
349 Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
352 Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
355 Andreas Jaeger for testing and benchmarking of GCC and various bug fixes.
358 Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
359 as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
363 Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes, her quality improvement
364 sidetracks, and web page maintenance.
367 Kean Johnston for SCO OpenServer support and various fixes.
370 Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
371 Kenner's "``toy'' language".
374 Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation.
377 Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
380 David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
383 Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bug fixes and optimizations of
384 strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.
387 Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
388 and his automatic regression tester.
391 Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with g++ and for a lot of early work
392 in just about every part of libstdc++.
395 Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
399 Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
400 Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
401 Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
402 instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
403 processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
404 strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
405 code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
406 elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
407 head maintainer of GCC for several years.
410 Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and
411 maintaining binary releases for Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++
412 porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32.
415 Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
418 Mark Klein for PA improvements.
421 Thomas Koenig for various bug fixes.
424 Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
427 Benjamin Kosnik for his g++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
430 Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
434 Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
435 entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
436 handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
437 fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
440 Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
441 with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
444 Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
447 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for C++ improvements including template as template
448 parameter support, and many C++ fixes.
451 Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
452 random work on the Java front end.
455 Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU.
458 Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and
462 Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
465 Weiwen Liu for testing and various bug fixes.
468 Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
472 Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
473 various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of
474 assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges.
477 H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
478 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
481 Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
484 Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
485 various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
488 Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking
489 improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and
490 direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and
491 implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler.
494 Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
497 Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and
498 improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.
501 All of the Mauve project
502 @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/mauve/THANKS?rev=1.2&cvsroot=mauve&only_with_tag=HEAD,,contributors},
506 Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.
509 Adam Megacz for his work on the Windows port of GCJ.
512 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
513 powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
516 Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
520 David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
521 SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
525 Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
528 Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bug fixes, and turning the
529 entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.
532 Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
533 C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
534 ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.x.
537 Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
540 Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
541 maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
544 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
545 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
546 services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and
547 the backs of envelopes would have been... difficult.
550 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
551 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
555 Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.
558 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements.
561 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
562 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
563 than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
566 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
569 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
572 Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
573 C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
576 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship
577 through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale
578 infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project
579 documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on
580 MT-safe string and shadow headers.
583 Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.
586 Nathanael Nerode for cleaning up the configuration/build process.
589 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
593 Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
594 engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
597 Geoff Noer for this work on getting cygwin native builds working.
600 Diego Novillo for his SPEC performance tracking web pages and assorted
601 fixes in the middle end and various back ends.
604 David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
605 FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
609 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
610 amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy.
613 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
616 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to our o32
617 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
618 clean-ups and porting work, etc.
621 Hartmut Penner for work on the s390 port.
624 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
627 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and
628 continued Java maintainership.
631 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
634 Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
635 out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
636 taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
639 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
643 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
644 cleanups in the compiler.
647 Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT.
650 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
654 Volker Reichelt for keeping up with the problem reports.
657 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
661 Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD
662 port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical
663 threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems,
664 as well as keeping GCC properly working on FreeBSD and continuous testing.
667 Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
670 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
673 Ken Rose for fixes to our delay slot filling code.
676 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
679 Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits,
680 Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support.
683 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
686 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
689 Roger Sayle for improvements to constant folding and GCC's RTL optimizers
690 as well as for fixing numerous bugs.
693 Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ.
696 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
699 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
702 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
703 work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
707 Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++ -- especially application
708 testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release
709 criteria -- and libstdc++ header file tweaks.
712 Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.
715 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
718 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
719 contributions and RTEMS testing.
722 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
725 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
726 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
727 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
730 Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from
731 the LWG (thereby keeping us in line with updates from the ISO).
734 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
738 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
741 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
744 Danny Smith for his major efforts on the Mingw (and Cygwin) ports.
747 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
750 Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++
754 Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique.
757 Richard Stallman, for writing the original gcc and launching the GNU project.
760 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
761 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
764 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
767 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
770 Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
773 John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.
776 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, g++ contributions over the years and more
777 recently his vxworks contributions
780 Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.
783 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
786 Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking,
790 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU.
793 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
796 Philipp Thomas for random bug fixes throughout the compiler
799 Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD.
802 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
803 language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
806 Michael Tiemann for random bug fixes, the first instruction scheduler,
807 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
808 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
811 Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.
814 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
817 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
818 definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
821 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java
822 contributions and libgcj maintainership.
825 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
829 Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes.
832 Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their
833 associated configure steps.
836 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
839 Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML
843 Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
847 Krister Walfridsson for random bug fixes.
850 Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files
851 work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time
855 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
856 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
857 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
860 Ulrich Weigand for work on the s390 port.
863 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bug fixes.
866 Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ.
869 Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.
872 Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with
876 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
879 Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
882 Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
883 problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
884 reduction and other loop optimizations.
887 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
890 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
893 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
894 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
897 Kevin Zachmann helped ported GCC to the Tahoe.
900 Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.
904 In addition to the above, all of which also contributed time and energy in
905 testing GCC, we would like to thank the following for their contributions
970 Charles-Antoine Gauthier
1102 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug
1103 reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.