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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 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 Neil Booth for various work on cpplib.
41 Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
42 improvements to our infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
43 and Java front end implementations. Initial implementations of
44 cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library
48 Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
51 Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
54 Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
57 Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
60 Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
63 Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
66 Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
69 Craig Burley for leadership of the Fortran effort.
72 John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
73 previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
76 Steve Chamberlain wrote the support for the Hitachi SH and H8 processors
77 and the PicoJava processor.
80 Scott Christley for his ObjC contributions.
83 Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
86 Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and other random
90 Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing.
93 Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
97 Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
100 Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
103 Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
104 that print a copy of their source.
107 Ulrich Drepper for his work on the C++ runtime libraries, glibc,
108 testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99 support, CFG dumping support, etc.
111 Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
114 David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee,
115 ongoing work with the RS6000/PowerPC port, and help cleaning up Haifa
119 Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
122 Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements.
125 Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
126 own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
129 Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
132 Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
136 Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
139 Peter Gerwinski for various bugfixes and the Pascal front end.
142 Kaveh Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee and
143 amazing work to make @samp{-W -Wall} useful.
146 Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
149 Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
150 multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
151 support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
152 via the steering committee.
155 Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work.
158 Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
161 Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
162 tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
163 the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
164 Intel 386 and 860 support.
167 Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
168 warnings and assorted bugfixes.
171 Andrew Haley for his Java work.
174 Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
177 Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
178 the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
182 Kate Hedstrom for staking the g77 folks with an initial testsuite.
185 Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC and alpha work, loop opts, and
186 generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for years, flow
187 rewrite and lots of stuff I've forgotten.
190 Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
191 the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
194 Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
195 of testing an bugfixing, particularly of our configury code.
198 Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
201 Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
204 Christian Iseli for various bugfixes.
207 Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
210 Lee Iverson for random fixes and mips testing.
213 Andreas Jaeger for various fixes to the MIPS port
216 Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations.
219 J. Kean Johnston for OpenServer support.
222 Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
225 David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
228 Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
229 and his automatic regression tester.
232 Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with g++.
235 Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
239 Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
240 Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
241 Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
242 instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
243 processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
244 strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
245 code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
246 elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
247 head maintainer of GCC for several years.
250 Mumit Khan for various contributions to the cygwin and mingw32 ports and
251 maintaining binary releases for Windows hosts.
254 Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
257 Mark Klein for PA improvements.
260 Thomas Koenig for various bugfixes.
263 Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
266 Benjamin Kosnik for his g++ work.
269 Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
273 Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
274 entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
275 handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
276 fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
279 Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
280 with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
283 Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
286 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for improvements to demangler and various c++ fixes.
289 Warren Levy major work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and random
290 work on the Java front end.
293 Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the Mips cpu.
296 Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
299 Weiwen Liu for testing and various bugfixes.
302 Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
306 Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
307 and various C++ improvements including namespace support.
310 H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
311 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
314 Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
317 Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
318 various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
321 Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC
322 hacking improvements to compile-time performance and overall knowledge
323 and direction in the area of instruction scheduling.
326 Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
329 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS powerpc, haifa,
330 ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
333 Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
337 David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
338 SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
342 Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
345 Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
346 C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
347 ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.0.
350 Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
353 Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
354 maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
357 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
358 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
359 services, ftp services, etc etc.
362 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
363 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
367 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements.
370 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
371 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
372 than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
375 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
378 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
381 Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
382 C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
385 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3.
388 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
392 Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
393 engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
396 Geoff Noer for this work on getting cygwin native builds working.
399 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
400 amazing testing work.
403 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
406 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to our o32
407 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, etc.
410 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
413 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for his Java work.
416 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
419 Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
420 out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
421 taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
424 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the ObjC front end and runtime libraries.
427 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, mips ports and various
428 cleanups in the compiler.
431 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
434 Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions and maintenance of libstdc++-v3,
435 including valarray implementation and limits support.
438 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
442 Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
445 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
448 Ken Rose for fixes to our delay slot filling code.
451 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
454 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
457 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
460 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
463 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
466 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
467 work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
471 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
474 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
475 contributions and RTEMS testing.
478 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
481 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
482 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
483 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
486 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
490 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
493 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
496 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
499 Scott Snyder for various fixes.
502 Richard Stallman, for writing the original gcc and launching the GNU project.
505 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
506 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
509 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
512 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
515 Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
518 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, g++ contributions over the years and more
519 recently his vxworks contributions
522 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
525 Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking,
529 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper cpu.
532 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
535 Philipp Thomas for random bugfixes throughout the compiler
538 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
542 Michael Tiemann for random bugfixes the first instruction scheduler,
543 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, sparc and M88k
544 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
547 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
550 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
551 definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
554 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and his Java work.
557 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
561 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
564 Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
568 Krister Walfridsson for random bugfixes.
571 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
572 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
573 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
576 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bugfixes.
579 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
582 Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
585 Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
586 problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
587 reduction and other loop optimizations.
590 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
593 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
596 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
597 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
600 Kevin Zachmann helped ported GCC to the Tahoe.
605 We'd also like to thank the folks who have contributed time and energy in
718 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug
719 reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.