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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
17 Some projects operating under the GCC project maintain their own list
18 of contributors, such as
19 @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/libstdc++/,the C++ library}.
24 Analog Devices helped implement the support for complex data types
28 John David Anglin for improvements to libstdc++-v3 and the HP-UX port.
31 James van Artsdalen wrote the code that makes efficient use of
32 the Intel 80387 register stack.
35 Alasdair Baird for various bugfixes.
38 Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end.
41 Neil Booth for various work on cpplib.
44 Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
45 improvements to our infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
46 and Java front end implementations. Initial implementations of
47 cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library
51 Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
54 Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
57 Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
60 Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
63 Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
66 Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
69 Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
72 Craig Burley for leadership of the Fortran effort.
75 John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
76 previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
79 Steve Chamberlain wrote the support for the Hitachi SH and H8 processors
80 and the PicoJava processor.
83 Scott Christley for his ObjC contributions.
86 Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
89 Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and other random
93 Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing.
96 Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
100 Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
103 Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
106 Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
107 that print a copy of their source.
110 Ulrich Drepper for his work on the C++ runtime libraries, glibc,
111 testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99 support, CFG dumping support, etc.
114 Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
117 David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee,
118 ongoing work with the RS6000/PowerPC port, and help cleaning up Haifa
122 Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
125 Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements.
128 Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
129 own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
132 Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
135 Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
139 Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
142 Peter Gerwinski for various bugfixes and the Pascal front end.
145 Kaveh Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee and
146 amazing work to make @samp{-W -Wall} useful.
149 Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
152 Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
153 multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
154 support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
155 via the steering committee.
158 Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work.
161 Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
164 Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
165 tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
166 the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
167 Intel 386 and 860 support.
170 Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
171 warnings and assorted bugfixes.
174 Andrew Haley for his Java work.
177 Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
180 Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
181 the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
185 Kate Hedstrom for staking the g77 folks with an initial testsuite.
188 Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC and alpha work, loop opts, and
189 generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for years, flow
190 rewrite and lots of stuff I've forgotten.
193 Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
194 the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
197 Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
198 of testing an bugfixing, particularly of our configury code.
201 Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
204 Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
207 Christian Iseli for various bugfixes.
210 Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
213 Lee Iverson for random fixes and mips testing.
216 Andreas Jaeger for various fixes to the MIPS port
219 Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations.
222 J. Kean Johnston for OpenServer support.
225 Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
228 David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
231 Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
232 and his automatic regression tester.
235 Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with g++.
238 Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
242 Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
243 Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
244 Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
245 instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
246 processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
247 strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
248 code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
249 elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
250 head maintainer of GCC for several years.
253 Mumit Khan for various contributions to the cygwin and mingw32 ports and
254 maintaining binary releases for Windows hosts.
257 Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
260 Mark Klein for PA improvements.
263 Thomas Koenig for various bugfixes.
266 Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
269 Benjamin Kosnik for his g++ work.
272 Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
276 Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
277 entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
278 handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
279 fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
282 Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
283 with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
286 Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
289 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for improvements to demangler and various c++ fixes.
292 Warren Levy major work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and random
293 work on the Java front end.
296 Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the Mips cpu.
299 Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
302 Weiwen Liu for testing and various bugfixes.
305 Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
309 Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
310 and various C++ improvements including namespace support.
313 H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
314 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
317 Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
320 Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
321 various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
324 Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC
325 hacking improvements to compile-time performance and overall knowledge
326 and direction in the area of instruction scheduling.
329 Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
332 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS powerpc, haifa,
333 ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
336 Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
340 David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
341 SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
345 Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
348 Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
349 C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
350 ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.0.
353 Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
356 Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
357 maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
360 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
361 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
362 services, ftp services, etc etc.
365 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
366 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
370 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements.
373 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
374 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
375 than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
378 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
381 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
384 Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
385 C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
388 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3.
391 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
395 Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
396 engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
399 Geoff Noer for this work on getting cygwin native builds working.
402 David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
403 FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
407 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
408 amazing testing work.
411 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
414 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to our o32
415 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, etc.
418 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
421 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for his Java work.
424 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
427 Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
428 out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
429 taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
432 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the ObjC front end and runtime libraries.
435 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, mips ports and various
436 cleanups in the compiler.
439 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
443 Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions and maintenance of libstdc++-v3,
444 including valarray implementation and limits support.
447 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
451 Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 and the FreeBSD port.
454 Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
457 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
460 Ken Rose for fixes to our delay slot filling code.
463 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
466 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
469 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
472 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
475 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
478 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
479 work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
483 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
486 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
487 contributions and RTEMS testing.
490 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
493 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
494 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
495 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
498 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
502 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
505 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
508 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
511 Scott Snyder for various fixes.
514 Richard Stallman, for writing the original gcc and launching the GNU project.
517 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
518 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
521 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
524 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
527 Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
530 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, g++ contributions over the years and more
531 recently his vxworks contributions
534 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
537 Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking,
541 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper cpu.
544 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
547 Philipp Thomas for random bugfixes throughout the compiler
550 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
554 Michael Tiemann for random bugfixes the first instruction scheduler,
555 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, sparc and M88k
556 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
559 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
562 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
563 definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
566 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and his Java work.
569 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
573 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
576 Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
580 Krister Walfridsson for random bugfixes.
583 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
584 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
585 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
588 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bugfixes.
591 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
594 Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
597 Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
598 problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
599 reduction and other loop optimizations.
602 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
605 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
608 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
609 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
612 Kevin Zachmann helped ported GCC to the Tahoe.
617 We'd also like to thank the folks who have contributed time and energy in
733 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug
734 reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.