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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} if you have been left out
14 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 Alasdair Baird for various bugfixes.
35 Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end.
38 Godmar Back for his Java improvements and encouragement.
41 Scott Bambrough for help porting the Java compiler.
44 Jon Beniston for his Win32 port of Java.
47 Geoff Berry for his Java object serialization work and various patches.
50 Eric Blake for helping to make GCJ and libgcj conform to the
54 Hans-J. Boehm for his @uref{http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/,,
55 garbage collector}, IA-64 libffi port, and other Java work.
58 Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other
59 miscellaneous clean-ups.
62 Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
63 improvements to our infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
64 front end implementation. Initial implementations of
65 cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++)
66 maintainer. Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of GCJ.
69 Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
72 Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
75 Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
78 Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
81 Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
84 Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
87 Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ.
90 Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
93 Craig Burley for leadership of the Fortran effort.
96 Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++.
99 Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to
100 the string class, hard detective work on the frustrating localization
101 issues, and keeping up with the problem reports.
104 John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
105 previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
108 Steve Chamberlain for support for the Hitachi SH and H8 processors
109 and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.
112 Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ.
115 John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches.
118 Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
121 Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.
124 Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
127 The @uref{http://www.classpath.org,,GNU Classpath project}
128 for all of their merged runtime code.
131 Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and
132 other random hacking.
135 Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings.
138 Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing.
141 Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
145 Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
148 Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
151 Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
152 that print a copy of their source.
155 Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.
158 Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes.
161 Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to g++, contributions and
162 maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3,
163 including valarray<>, complex<>, maintaining the numerics library
164 (including that pesky <limits> :-) and keeping up-to-date anything
168 Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99
169 support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime
170 libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and
171 maintaining complex<>, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration
172 architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.
175 Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
178 David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work
179 with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes, and
180 for doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands.
183 Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in
187 Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery,
188 documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional
189 iostream bugfix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
192 Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
195 Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++
196 configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.
199 Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.
202 Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
203 own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
206 Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
209 Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
213 Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
216 Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portugese translation of the GCJ FAQ.
219 Peter Gerwinski for various bugfixes and the Pascal front end.
222 Kaveh Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee and
223 amazing work to make @samp{-W -Wall} useful.
226 John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.
229 Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
232 Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
233 multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
234 support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
235 via the steering committee.
238 Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work.
241 Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug our code.
244 Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
247 Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
248 tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
249 the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
250 Intel 386 and 860 support.
253 Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
254 warnings and assorted bugfixes.
257 Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
260 Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
263 Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
264 the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
268 Kate Hedstrom for staking the g77 folks with an initial testsuite.
271 Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, and ia32 work, loop
272 opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
273 years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
277 Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
278 the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
281 Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
282 of testing an bugfixing, particularly of our configury code.
285 Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
288 Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
291 Christian Iseli for various bugfixes.
294 Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
297 Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
300 Andreas Jaeger for various fixes to the MIPS port
303 Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
304 as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
308 Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes and for her quality improvement
312 J. Kean Johnston for OpenServer support.
315 Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
316 Kenner's "``toy'' language".
319 Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation.
322 Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
325 David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
328 Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bugfixes and optimizations of
329 strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.
332 Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
333 and his automatic regression tester.
336 Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with g++ and for a lot of early work
337 in just about every part of libstdc++.
340 Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
344 Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
345 Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
346 Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
347 instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
348 processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
349 strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
350 code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
351 elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
352 head maintainer of GCC for several years.
355 Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and
356 maintaining binary releases for Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++
357 porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32.
360 Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
363 Mark Klein for PA improvements.
366 Thomas Koenig for various bugfixes.
369 Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
372 Benjamin Kosnik for his g++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
375 Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
379 Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
380 entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
381 handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
382 fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
385 Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
386 with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
389 Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
392 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for improvements to demangler and various c++ fixes.
395 Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
396 random work on the Java front end.
399 Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU.
402 Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and
406 Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
409 Weiwen Liu for testing and various bugfixes.
412 Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
416 Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
417 various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of
418 assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges.
421 H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
422 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
425 Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
428 Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
429 various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
432 Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking
433 improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and
434 direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and
435 implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler.
438 Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
441 Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and
442 improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.
445 All of the Mauve project
446 @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/mauve/THANKS?rev=1.2&cvsroot=mauve&only_with_tag=HEAD,,contributors},
450 Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.
453 Adam Megacz for his work on the Win32 port of GCJ.
456 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
457 powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
460 Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
464 David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
465 SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
469 Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
472 Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bugfixes, and turning the
473 entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.
476 Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
477 C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
478 ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.x.
481 Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
484 Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
485 maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
488 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
489 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
490 services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and
491 the backs of envelopes would have been... difficult.
494 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
495 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
499 Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.
502 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements.
505 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
506 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
507 than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
510 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
513 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
516 Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
517 C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
520 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship
521 through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale
522 infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project
523 documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on
524 MT-safe string and shadow headers.
527 Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.
530 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
534 Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
535 engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
538 Geoff Noer for this work on getting cygwin native builds working.
541 David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
542 FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
546 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
547 amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy.
550 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
553 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to our o32
554 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
555 clean-ups and porting work, etc.
558 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
561 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and
562 continued Java maintainership.
565 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
568 Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
569 out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
570 taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
573 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
577 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
578 cleanups in the compiler.
581 Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT.
584 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
588 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
592 Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD
593 port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical
594 threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems.
597 Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
600 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
603 Ken Rose for fixes to our delay slot filling code.
606 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
609 Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits,
610 Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support.
613 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
616 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
619 Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ.
622 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
625 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
628 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
629 work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
633 Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++ -- especially application
634 testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release
635 criteria -- and libstdc++ header file tweaks.
638 Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.
641 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
644 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
645 contributions and RTEMS testing.
648 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
651 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
652 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
653 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
656 Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from
657 the LWG (thereby keeping us in line with updates from the ISO).
660 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
664 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
667 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
670 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
673 Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++
677 Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique.
680 Richard Stallman, for writing the original gcc and launching the GNU project.
683 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
684 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
687 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
690 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
693 Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
696 John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.
699 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, g++ contributions over the years and more
700 recently his vxworks contributions
703 Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.
706 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
709 Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking,
713 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU.
716 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
719 Philipp Thomas for random bugfixes throughout the compiler
722 Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD.
725 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
726 language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
729 Michael Tiemann for random bugfixes, the first instruction scheduler,
730 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
731 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
734 Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.
737 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
740 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
741 definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
744 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java
745 contributions and libgcj maintainership.
748 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
752 Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes.
755 Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their
756 associated configure steps.
759 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
762 Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML
766 Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
770 Krister Walfridsson for random bugfixes.
773 Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files
774 work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time
778 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
779 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
780 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
783 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bugfixes.
786 Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ.
789 Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.
792 Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with
796 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
799 Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
802 Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
803 problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
804 reduction and other loop optimizations.
807 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
810 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
813 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
814 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
817 Kevin Zachmann helped ported GCC to the Tahoe.
820 Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.
825 We'd also like to thank the folks who have contributed time and energy in
902 Charles-Antoine Gauthier
1088 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug
1089 reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.