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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 bugfixes.
39 Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end.
42 Godmar Back for his Java improvements and encouragement.
45 Scott Bambrough for help porting the Java compiler.
48 Wolfgang Bangerth for processing tons of bug reports.
51 Jon Beniston for his Win32 port of Java.
54 Geoff Berry for his Java object serialization work and various patches.
57 Eric Blake for helping to make GCJ and libgcj conform to the
61 Eric Botcazou for fixing middle- and backend bugs left and right.
64 Hans-J. Boehm for his @uref{http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/,,
65 garbage collector}, IA-64 libffi port, and other Java work.
68 Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other
69 miscellaneous clean-ups.
72 Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
73 improvements to our infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
74 front end implementation. Initial implementations of
75 cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++)
76 maintainer. Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of GCJ.
79 Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
82 Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
85 Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
88 Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
91 Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
94 Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
97 Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ.
100 Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
103 Craig Burley for leadership of the Fortran effort.
106 Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++.
109 Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to
110 the string class, hard detective work on the frustrating localization
111 issues, and keeping up with the problem reports.
114 John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
115 previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
118 Stephane Carrez for 68HC11 and 68HC12 ports.
121 Steve Chamberlain for support for the Hitachi SH and H8 processors
122 and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.
125 Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ.
128 John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches.
131 Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
134 Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.
137 Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
140 The @uref{http://www.classpath.org,,GNU Classpath project}
141 for all of their merged runtime code.
144 Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and
145 other random hacking.
148 Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings.
151 Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing.
154 Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
158 Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
161 Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
164 Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
165 that print a copy of their source.
168 Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.
171 Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bugfixes.
174 DJ Delorie for the DJGPP port, build and libiberty maintenance, and
178 Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to g++, contributions and
179 maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3,
180 including valarray<>, complex<>, maintaining the numerics library
181 (including that pesky <limits> :-) and keeping up-to-date anything
185 Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99
186 support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime
187 libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and
188 maintaining complex<>, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration
189 architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.
192 Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
195 David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work
196 with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes, and
197 for doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands.
200 Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in
204 Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery,
205 documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional
206 iostream bugfix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
209 Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
212 Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++
213 configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.
216 Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.
219 Christian Ehrhardt for dealing with bug reports.
222 Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
223 own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
226 Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
229 Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
233 Christopher Faylor for his work on the Cygwin port and for caring and
234 feeding the gcc.gnu.org box and saving its users tons of spam.
237 Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
240 Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portugese translation of the GCJ FAQ.
243 Peter Gerwinski for various bugfixes and the Pascal front end.
246 Kaveh Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee and
247 amazing work to make @samp{-W -Wall} useful.
250 John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.
253 Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
256 Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
257 multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
258 support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
259 via the steering committee.
262 Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work.
265 Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug our code.
268 Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
271 Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
272 tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
273 the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
274 Intel 386 and 860 support.
277 Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
278 warnings and assorted bugfixes.
281 Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
284 Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
287 Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
288 the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
292 Kate Hedstrom for staking the g77 folks with an initial testsuite.
295 Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, and ia32 work, loop
296 opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
297 years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
301 Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
302 the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
305 Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
306 of testing an bugfixing, particularly of our configury code.
309 Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
312 Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
315 Christian Iseli for various bugfixes.
318 Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
321 Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
324 Andreas Jaeger for various fixes to the MIPS port
327 Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
328 as lots of bugfixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
332 Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes, her quality improvement
333 sidetracks, and web page maintenance.
336 J. Kean Johnston for OpenServer support.
339 Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
340 Kenner's "``toy'' language".
343 Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation.
346 Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
349 David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
352 Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bugfixes and optimizations of
353 strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.
356 Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
357 and his automatic regression tester.
360 Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with g++ and for a lot of early work
361 in just about every part of libstdc++.
364 Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
368 Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
369 Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
370 Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
371 instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
372 processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
373 strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
374 code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
375 elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
376 head maintainer of GCC for several years.
379 Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and
380 maintaining binary releases for Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++
381 porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32.
384 Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
387 Mark Klein for PA improvements.
390 Thomas Koenig for various bugfixes.
393 Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
396 Benjamin Kosnik for his g++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
399 Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
403 Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
404 entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
405 handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
406 fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
409 Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
410 with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
413 Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
416 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for C++ improvements including template as template
417 parameter support, and many C++ fixes.
420 Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
421 random work on the Java front end.
424 Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU.
427 Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and
431 Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
434 Weiwen Liu for testing and various bugfixes.
437 Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
441 Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
442 various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of
443 assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges.
446 H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
447 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
450 Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
453 Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
454 various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
457 Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking
458 improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and
459 direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and
460 implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler.
463 Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
466 Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and
467 improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.
470 All of the Mauve project
471 @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/mauve/THANKS?rev=1.2&cvsroot=mauve&only_with_tag=HEAD,,contributors},
475 Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.
478 Adam Megacz for his work on the Win32 port of GCJ.
481 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
482 powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
485 Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
489 David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
490 SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
494 Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
497 Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bugfixes, and turning the
498 entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.
501 Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
502 C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
503 ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.x.
506 Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
509 Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
510 maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
513 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
514 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
515 services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and
516 the backs of envelopes would have been... difficult.
519 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
520 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
524 Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.
527 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements.
530 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
531 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
532 than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
535 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
538 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
541 Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
542 C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
545 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship
546 through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale
547 infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project
548 documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on
549 MT-safe string and shadow headers.
552 Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.
555 Nathanael Nerode for cleaning up the configuration/build process.
558 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
562 Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
563 engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
566 Geoff Noer for this work on getting cygwin native builds working.
569 Diego Novillo for his SPEC performance tracking web pages and assorted
570 fixes in the middle end and various back ends.
573 David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
574 FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
578 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
579 amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy.
582 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
585 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to our o32
586 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
587 clean-ups and porting work, etc.
590 Hartmut Penner for work on the s390 port.
593 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
596 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and
597 continued Java maintainership.
600 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
603 Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
604 out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
605 taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
608 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
612 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
613 cleanups in the compiler.
616 Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT.
619 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
623 Volker Reichelt for keeping up with the problem reports.
626 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
630 Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD
631 port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical
632 threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems.
635 Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
638 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
641 Ken Rose for fixes to our delay slot filling code.
644 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
647 Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits,
648 Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support.
651 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
654 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
657 Roger Sayle for improvements to constant folding and GCC's RTL optimizers
658 as well as for fixing numerous bugs.
661 Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ.
664 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
667 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
670 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
671 work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
675 Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++ -- especially application
676 testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release
677 criteria -- and libstdc++ header file tweaks.
680 Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.
683 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
686 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
687 contributions and RTEMS testing.
690 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
693 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
694 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
695 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
698 Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from
699 the LWG (thereby keeping us in line with updates from the ISO).
702 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
706 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
709 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
712 Danny Smith for his major efforts on the Mingw (and Cygwin) ports.
715 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
718 Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++
722 Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique.
725 Richard Stallman, for writing the original gcc and launching the GNU project.
728 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
729 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
732 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
735 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
738 Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
741 John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.
744 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, g++ contributions over the years and more
745 recently his vxworks contributions
748 Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bugfixes, and encouragement.
751 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
754 Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking,
758 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU.
761 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
764 Philipp Thomas for random bugfixes throughout the compiler
767 Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD.
770 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
771 language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
774 Michael Tiemann for random bugfixes, the first instruction scheduler,
775 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
776 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
779 Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.
782 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
785 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
786 definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
789 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java
790 contributions and libgcj maintainership.
793 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
797 Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes.
800 Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their
801 associated configure steps.
804 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
807 Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML
811 Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
815 Krister Walfridsson for random bugfixes.
818 Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files
819 work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time
823 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
824 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
825 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
828 Ulrich Weigand for work on the s390 port.
831 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bugfixes.
834 Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ.
837 Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.
840 Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with
844 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
847 Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
850 Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
851 problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
852 reduction and other loop optimizations.
855 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
858 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
861 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
862 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
865 Kevin Zachmann helped ported GCC to the Tahoe.
868 Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.
873 We'd also like to thank the folks who have contributed time and energy in
950 Charles-Antoine Gauthier
1136 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug
1137 reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.