1 @c Copyright (C) 1988,1989,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,
2 @c 2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 @c This is part of the GCC manual.
4 @c For copying conditions, see the file gcc.texi.
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 Giovanni Bajo for analyzing lots of complicated C++ problem reports.
42 Peter Barada for his work to improve code generation for new
46 Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end.
49 Godmar Back for his Java improvements and encouragement.
52 Scott Bambrough for help porting the Java compiler.
55 Wolfgang Bangerth for processing tons of bug reports.
58 Jon Beniston for his Microsoft Windows port of Java.
61 Daniel Berlin for better DWARF2 support, faster/better optimizations,
62 improved alias analysis, plus migrating GCC to Bugzilla.
65 Geoff Berry for his Java object serialization work and various patches.
68 Eric Blake for helping to make GCJ and libgcj conform to the
72 Janne Blomqvist for contributions to gfortran.
75 Segher Boessenkool for various fixes.
78 Hans-J. Boehm for his @uref{http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/,,
79 garbage collector}, IA-64 libffi port, and other Java work.
82 Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other
83 miscellaneous clean-ups.
86 Steven Bosscher for integrating the gfortran front end into GCC and for
87 contributing to the tree-ssa branch.
90 Eric Botcazou for fixing middle- and backend bugs left and right.
93 Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
94 improvements to the infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
95 front end implementation. Initial implementations of
96 cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++)
97 maintainer. Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of GCJ@.
100 Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
103 Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
106 Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
109 Paul Brook for work on the ARM architecture and maintaining gfortran.
112 Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
115 Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
118 Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
121 Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ@.
124 Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
127 Craig Burley for leadership of the G77 Fortran effort.
130 Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++.
133 Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to
134 the C++ strings, streambufs and formatted I/O, hard detective work on
135 the frustrating localization issues, and keeping up with the problem reports.
138 John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
139 previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
142 Stephane Carrez for 68HC11 and 68HC12 ports.
145 Steve Chamberlain for support for the Renesas SH and H8 processors
146 and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.
149 Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ@.
152 John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches.
155 Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
158 Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.
161 Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
164 The @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/,,GNU Classpath project}
165 for all of their merged runtime code.
168 Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and
169 other random hacking.
172 Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings.
175 R. Kelley Cook for making GCC buildable from a read-only directory as
176 well as other miscellaneous build process and documentation clean-ups.
179 Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing.
182 Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
186 Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
189 Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
192 Paul Dale for his work to add uClinux platform support to the
196 Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
197 that print a copy of their source.
200 Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.
203 Bud Davis for work on the G77 and gfortran compilers.
206 Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes.
209 DJ Delorie for the DJGPP port, build and libiberty maintenance,
210 various bug fixes, and the M32C port.
213 Arnaud Desitter for helping to debug gfortran.
216 Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to G++, contributions and
217 maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3,
218 including @code{valarray<>}, @code{complex<>}, maintaining the numerics library
219 (including that pesky @code{<limits>} :-) and keeping up-to-date anything
223 Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99
224 support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime
225 libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and
226 maintaining @code{complex<>}, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration
227 architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.
230 Zdenek Dvorak for a new loop unroller and various fixes.
233 Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
236 David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work
237 with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes,
238 doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands, and for
239 ensuring GCC properly keeps working on AIX@.
242 Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in
246 Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery,
247 documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional
248 iostream bug fix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
251 Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
254 Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++
255 configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.
258 Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.
261 Christian Ehrhardt for dealing with bug reports.
264 Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
265 own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
268 Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
271 Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
275 Christopher Faylor for his work on the Cygwin port and for caring and
276 feeding the gcc.gnu.org box and saving its users tons of spam.
279 Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
282 Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portuguese translation of the GCJ FAQ@.
285 Peter Gerwinski for various bug fixes and the Pascal front end.
288 Kaveh R.@: Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee, amazing
289 work to make @samp{-W -Wall -W* -Werror} useful, and continuously
290 testing GCC on a plethora of platforms. Kaveh extends his gratitude to
291 the @uref{http://www.caip.rutgers.edu,,CAIP Center} at Rutgers
292 University for providing him with computing resources to work on Free
293 Software since the late 1980s.
296 John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.
299 Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
302 Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
303 multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
304 support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
305 via the steering committee.
308 Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work.
311 Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug Java code.
314 Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
317 Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
318 tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
319 the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
320 Intel 386 and 860 support.
323 Mostafa Hagog for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS) and post reload GCSE@.
326 Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
327 warnings and assorted bug fixes.
330 Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
333 Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
336 Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
337 the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
341 Dara Hazeghi for wading through myriads of target-specific bug reports.
344 Kate Hedstrom for staking the G77 folks with an initial testsuite.
347 Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, ia32, and ia64 work, loop
348 opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
349 years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
353 Aldy Hernandez for working on the PowerPC port, SIMD support, and
357 Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
358 the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
361 Kazu Hirata for caring and feeding the Renesas H8/300 port and various fixes.
364 Katherine Holcomb for work on gfortran.
367 Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
368 of testing and bug fixing, particularly of GCC configury code.
371 Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
374 Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
377 Falk Hueffner for working on C and optimization bug reports.
380 Bernardo Innocenti for his m68k work, including merging of
381 ColdFire improvements and uClinux support.
384 Christian Iseli for various bug fixes.
387 Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
390 Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
393 Andreas Jaeger for testing and benchmarking of GCC and various bug fixes.
396 Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
397 as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
401 Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes, her quality improvement
402 sidetracks, and web page maintenance.
405 Kean Johnston for SCO OpenServer support and various fixes.
408 Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
409 Kenner's ``toy'' language.
412 Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation.
415 Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
418 Steven G. Kargl for work on gfortran.
421 David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
424 Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bug fixes and optimizations of
425 strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.
428 Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
429 and his automatic regression tester.
432 Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with G++ and for a lot of early work
433 in just about every part of libstdc++.
436 Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
440 Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
441 Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
442 Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
443 instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
444 processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
445 strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
446 code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
447 elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
448 head maintainer of GCC for several years.
451 Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and
452 maintaining binary releases for Microsoft Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++
453 porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32.
456 Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
459 Mark Klein for PA improvements.
462 Thomas Koenig for various bug fixes.
465 Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
468 Benjamin Kosnik for his G++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
471 Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
475 Asher Langton and Mike Kumbera for contributing Cray pointer support
476 to gfortran, and for other gfortran improvements.
479 Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
480 entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
481 handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
482 fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
485 Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
486 with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
489 Victor Leikehman for work on gfortran.
492 Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
495 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for C++ improvements including template as template
496 parameter support, and many C++ fixes.
499 Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
500 random work on the Java front end.
503 Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU@.
506 Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and
510 Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
513 Weiwen Liu for testing and various bug fixes.
516 Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
520 Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
521 various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of
522 assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges.
525 H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
526 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
529 Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
532 Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
533 various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
536 Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking
537 improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and
538 direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and
539 implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler.
542 Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
545 Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and
546 improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.
549 All of the Mauve project
550 @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/mauve/THANKS?rev=1.2&cvsroot=mauve&only_with_tag=HEAD,,contributors},
554 Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.
557 Adam Megacz for his work on the Microsoft Windows port of GCJ@.
560 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
561 powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
564 Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
568 Martin Michlmayr for testing GCC on several architectures using the
569 entire Debian archive.
572 David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
573 SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
577 Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
580 Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bug fixes, and turning the
581 entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.
584 Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
585 C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
586 ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.x.
589 Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
592 Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
593 maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
596 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
597 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
598 services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and
599 the backs of envelopes would have been@dots{} difficult.
602 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
603 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
607 Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.
610 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements, and for the initial
614 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
615 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
616 than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
619 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
622 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
625 Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
626 C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
629 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship
630 through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale
631 infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project
632 documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on
633 MT-safe string and shadow headers.
636 Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.
639 Nathanael Nerode for cleaning up the configuration/build process.
642 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
646 Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
647 engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
650 Geoff Noer for his work on getting cygwin native builds working.
653 Diego Novillo for his work on Tree SSA, OpenMP, SPEC performance
654 tracking web pages and assorted fixes.
657 David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
658 FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
662 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
663 amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy.
666 Stefan Olsson for work on mt_alloc.
669 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
672 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to GCC's o32
673 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
674 clean-ups and porting work, etc.
677 Hartmut Penner for work on the s390 port.
680 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
683 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and
684 continued Java maintainership.
687 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
690 Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
691 out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
692 taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
695 Andrew Pinski for processing bug reports by the dozen.
698 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
702 Jerry Quinn for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O@.
705 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
706 cleanups in the compiler.
709 Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT@.
712 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
716 Volker Reichelt for keeping up with the problem reports.
719 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
723 Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD
724 port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical
725 threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems,
726 as well as keeping GCC properly working on FreeBSD and continuous testing.
729 Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
732 Ola R@"onnerup for work on mt_alloc.
735 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
738 David Ronis inspired and encouraged Craig to rewrite the G77
739 documentation in texinfo format by contributing a first pass at a
740 translation of the old @file{g77-0.5.16/f/DOC} file.
743 Ken Rose for fixes to GCC's delay slot filling code.
746 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
749 P@'etur Run@'olfsson for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O and
750 large file support in C++ filebuf.
753 Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits,
754 Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support.
757 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
760 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
763 Roger Sayle for improvements to constant folding and GCC's RTL optimizers
764 as well as for fixing numerous bugs.
767 Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ@.
770 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
773 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
776 Tobias Schl@"uter for work on gfortran.
779 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
780 work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
784 Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++---especially application
785 testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release
786 criteria---and libstdc++ header file tweaks.
789 Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.
792 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
795 Lars Segerlund for work on gfortran.
798 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
799 contributions and RTEMS testing.
802 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
805 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
806 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
807 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
810 Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from
811 the LWG (thereby keeping GCC in line with updates from the ISO)@.
814 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
818 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
821 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
824 Danny Smith for his major efforts on the Mingw (and Cygwin) ports.
827 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
830 Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++
831 testsuite entries. Also for providing the patch to G77 to add
832 rudimentary support for @code{INTEGER*1}, @code{INTEGER*2}, and
836 Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique.
839 Richard Stallman, for writing the original GCC and launching the GNU project.
842 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
843 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
846 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
849 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
852 Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
855 John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.
858 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, G++ contributions over the years and more
859 recently his vxworks contributions
862 Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.
865 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
868 Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking,
872 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU@.
875 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
878 Philipp Thomas for random bug fixes throughout the compiler
881 Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD@.
884 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
885 language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
888 Michael Tiemann for random bug fixes, the first instruction scheduler,
889 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
890 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
893 Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.
896 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
899 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
900 definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
903 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java
904 contributions and libgcj maintainership.
907 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
911 Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes.
914 Andy Vaught for the design and initial implementation of the gfortran
918 Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their
919 associated configure steps.
922 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
925 Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML
929 Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
933 Krister Walfridsson for random bug fixes.
936 Feng Wang for contributions to gfortran.
939 Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files
940 work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time
944 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
945 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
946 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
949 Ulrich Weigand for work on the s390 port.
952 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bug fixes.
955 Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ@.
958 Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.
961 Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with
965 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
968 Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
971 Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
972 problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
973 reduction and other loop optimizations.
976 Paul Woegerer and Tal Agmon for the CRX port.
979 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
982 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
985 Canqun Yang for work on gfortran.
988 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
989 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
992 Kevin Zachmann helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
995 Ayal Zaks for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS).
998 Xiaoqiang Zhang for work on gfortran.
1001 Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.
1005 The following people are recognized for their contributions to GNAT,
1006 the Ada front end of GCC:
1152 The following people are recognized for their contributions of new
1153 features, bug reports, testing and integration of classpath/libgcj for
1157 Lillian Angel for @code{JTree} implementation and lots Free Swing
1158 additions and bugfixes.
1161 Wolfgang Baer for @code{GapContent} bugfixes.
1164 Anthony Balkissoon for @code{JList}, Free Swing 1.5 updates and mouse event
1165 fixes, lots of Free Swing work including @code{JTable} editing.
1168 Stuart Ballard for RMI constant fixes.
1171 Goffredo Baroncelli for @code{HTTPURLConnection} fixes.
1174 Gary Benson for @code{MessageFormat} fixes.
1177 Daniel Bonniot for @code{Serialization} fixes.
1180 Chris Burdess for lots of gnu.xml and http protocol fixes, @code{StAX}
1181 and @code{DOM xml:id} support.
1184 Ka-Hing Cheung for @code{TreePath} and @code{TreeSelection} fixes.
1187 Archie Cobbs for build fixes, VM interface updates,
1188 @code{URLClassLoader} updates.
1191 Kelley Cook for build fixes.
1194 Martin Cordova for Suggestions for better @code{SocketTimeoutException}.
1197 David Daney for @code{BitSet} bugfixes, @code{HttpURLConnection}
1198 rewrite and improvements.
1201 Thomas Fitzsimmons for lots of upgrades to the gtk+ AWT and Cairo 2D
1202 support. Lots of imageio framework additions, lots of AWT and Free
1206 Jeroen Frijters for @code{ClassLoader} and nio cleanups, serialization fixes,
1207 better @code{Proxy} support, bugfixes and IKVM integration.
1210 Santiago Gala for @code{AccessControlContext} fixes.
1213 Nicolas Geoffray for @code{VMClassLoader} and @code{AccessController}
1217 David Gilbert for @code{basic} and @code{metal} icon and plaf support
1218 and lots of documenting, Lots of Free Swing and metal theme
1219 additions. @code{MetalIconFactory} implementation.
1222 Anthony Green for @code{MIDI} framework, @code{ALSA} and @code{DSSI}
1226 Andrew Haley for @code{Serialization} and @code{URLClassLoader} fixes,
1230 Kim Ho for @code{JFileChooser} implementation.
1233 Andrew John Hughes for @code{Locale} and net fixes, URI RFC2986
1234 updates, @code{Serialization} fixes, @code{Properties} XML support and
1235 generic branch work, VMIntegration guide update.
1238 Bastiaan Huisman for @code{TimeZone} bugfixing.
1241 Andreas Jaeger for mprec updates.
1244 Paul Jenner for better @option{-Werror} support.
1247 Ito Kazumitsu for @code{NetworkInterface} implementation and updates.
1250 Roman Kennke for @code{BoxLayout}, @code{GrayFilter} and
1251 @code{SplitPane}, plus bugfixes all over. Lots of Free Swing work
1252 including styled text.
1255 Simon Kitching for @code{String} cleanups and optimization suggestions.
1258 Michael Koch for configuration fixes, @code{Locale} updates, bug and
1262 Guilhem Lavaux for configuration, thread and channel fixes and Kaffe
1263 integration. JCL native @code{Pointer} updates. Logger bugfixes.
1266 David Lichteblau for JCL support library global/local reference
1270 Aaron Luchko for JDWP updates and documentation fixes.
1273 Ziga Mahkovec for @code{Graphics2D} upgraded to Cairo 0.5 and new regex
1277 Sven de Marothy for BMP imageio support, CSS and @code{TextLayout}
1278 fixes. @code{GtkImage} rewrite, 2D, awt, free swing and date/time fixes and
1279 implementing the Qt4 peers.
1282 Casey Marshall for crypto algorithm fixes, @code{FileChannel} lock,
1283 @code{SystemLogger} and @code{FileHandler} rotate implementations, NIO
1284 @code{FileChannel.map} support, security and policy updates.
1287 Bryce McKinlay for RMI work.
1290 Audrius Meskauskas for lots of Free Corba, RMI and HTML work plus
1291 testing and documenting.
1294 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo for build fixes.
1297 Rainer Orth for build fixes.
1300 Andrew Overholt for @code{File} locking fixes.
1303 Ingo Proetel for @code{Image}, @code{Logger} and @code{URLClassLoader}
1307 Olga Rodimina for @code{MenuSelectionManager} implementation.
1310 Jan Roehrich for @code{BasicTreeUI} and @code{JTree} fixes.
1313 Julian Scheid for documentation updates and gjdoc support.
1316 Christian Schlichtherle for zip fixes and cleanups.
1319 Robert Schuster for documentation updates and beans fixes,
1320 @code{TreeNode} enumerations and @code{ActionCommand} and various
1321 fixes, XML and URL, AWT and Free Swing bugfixes.
1324 Keith Seitz for lots of JDWP work.
1327 Christian Thalinger for 64-bit cleanups, Configuration and VM
1328 interface fixes and @code{CACAO} integration, @code{fdlibm} updates.
1331 Gael Thomas for @code{VMClassLoader} boot packages support suggestions.
1334 Andreas Tobler for Darwin and Solaris testing and fixing, @code{Qt4}
1335 support for Darwin/OS X, @code{Graphics2D} support, @code{gtk+}
1339 Dalibor Topic for better @code{DEBUG} support, build cleanups and
1340 Kaffe integration. @code{Qt4} build infrastructure, @code{SHA1PRNG}
1341 and @code{GdkPixbugDecoder} updates.
1344 Tom Tromey for Eclipse integration, generics work, lots of bugfixes
1345 and gcj integration including coordinating The Big Merge.
1348 Mark Wielaard for bugfixes, packaging and release management,
1349 @code{Clipboard} implementation, system call interrupts and network
1350 timeouts and @code{GdkPixpufDecoder} fixes.
1355 In addition to the above, all of which also contributed time and energy in
1356 testing GCC, we would like to thank the following for their contributions
1361 Michael Abd-El-Malek
1427 Charles-Antoine Gauthier
1592 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug
1593 reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.