-@c Copyright (C) 1988,1989,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001
+@c Copyright (C) 1988,1989,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002
@c Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c This is part of the GCC manual.
@c For copying conditions, see the file gcc.texi.
+@node Contributors
+@unnumbered Contributors to GCC
+@cindex contributors
+
The GCC project would like to thank its many contributors. Without them the
project would not have been nearly as successful as it has been. Any omissions
in this list are accidental. Feel free to contact
-@email{law@@redhat.com} if you have been left out
-or some of your contributions are not listed. Please keep this list in
+@email{law@@redhat.com} or @email{gerald@@pfeifer.com} if you have been left
+out or some of your contributions are not listed. Please keep this list in
alphabetical order.
-Some projects operating under the GCC project maintain their own list
-of contributors, such as
-@uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/libstdc++/,the C++ library}.
-
@itemize @bullet
@item
and iterators.
@item
+John David Anglin for threading-related fixes and improvements to
+libstdc++-v3, and the HP-UX port.
+
+@item
James van Artsdalen wrote the code that makes efficient use of
the Intel 80387 register stack.
@item
+Abramo and Roberto Bagnara for the SysV68 Motorola 3300 Delta Series
+port.
+
+@item
Alasdair Baird for various bugfixes.
@item
Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end.
@item
-Neil Booth for various work on cpplib.
+Godmar Back for his Java improvements and encouragement.
+
+@item
+Scott Bambrough for help porting the Java compiler.
+
+@item
+Jon Beniston for his Win32 port of Java.
+
+@item
+Geoff Berry for his Java object serialization work and various patches.
+
+@item
+Eric Blake for helping to make GCJ and libgcj conform to the
+specifications.
+
+@item
+Hans-J. Boehm for his @uref{http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/,,
+garbage collector}, IA-64 libffi port, and other Java work.
+
+@item
+Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other
+miscellaneous clean-ups.
@item
Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
improvements to our infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
-and Java front end implementations. Initial implementations of
-cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library
-(libg++) maintainer.
+front end implementation. Initial implementations of
+cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++)
+maintainer. Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of GCJ.
@item
Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
@item
+Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ.
+
+@item
Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
@item
Craig Burley for leadership of the Fortran effort.
@item
+Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++.
+
+@item
+Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to
+the string class, hard detective work on the frustrating localization
+issues, and keeping up with the problem reports.
+
+@item
John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
@item
-Steve Chamberlain wrote the support for the Hitachi SH and H8 processors
-and the PicoJava processor.
+Steve Chamberlain for support for the Hitachi SH and H8 processors
+and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.
+
+@item
+Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ.
+
+@item
+John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches.
@item
-Scott Christley for his ObjC contributions.
+Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
+
+@item
+Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.
@item
Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
@item
-Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and other random
-hacking.
+The @uref{http://www.classpath.org,,GNU Classpath project}
+for all of their merged runtime code.
+
+@item
+Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and
+other random hacking.
+
+@item
+Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings.
@item
Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing.
that print a copy of their source.
@item
-Ulrich Drepper for his work on the C++ runtime libraries, glibc,
- testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99 support, CFG dumping support, etc.
+Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.
+
+@item
+Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes.
+
+@item
+Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to g++, contributions and
+maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3,
+including valarray<>, complex<>, maintaining the numerics library
+(including that pesky <limits> :-) and keeping up-to-date anything
+to do with numbers.
+
+@item
+Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99
+support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime
+libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and
+maintaining complex<>, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration
+architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.
@item
Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
@item
-David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee,
-ongoing work with the RS6000/PowerPC port, and help cleaning up Haifa
-loop changes.
+David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work
+with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes, and
+for doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands.
+
+@item
+Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in
+libstdc++.
+
+@item
+Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery,
+documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional
+iostream bugfix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
@item
Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
@item
-Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements.
+Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++
+configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.
+
+@item
+Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.
@item
Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
@item
+Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portugese translation of the GCJ FAQ.
+
+@item
Peter Gerwinski for various bugfixes and the Pascal front end.
@item
amazing work to make @samp{-W -Wall} useful.
@item
+John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.
+
+@item
Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
@item
Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work.
@item
+Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug our code.
+
+@item
Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
@item
warnings and assorted bugfixes.
@item
-Andrew Haley for his Java work.
+Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
@item
Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
Kate Hedstrom for staking the g77 folks with an initial testsuite.
@item
-Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC and alpha work, loop opts, and
-generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for years, flow
-rewrite and lots of stuff I've forgotten.
+Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, and ia32 work, loop
+opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
+years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
+tons of patches.
@item
Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
@item
-Lee Iverson for random fixes and mips testing.
+Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
@item
Andreas Jaeger for various fixes to the MIPS port
@item
-Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations.
+Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
+as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
+system.
+
+@item
+Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes and for her quality improvement
+sidetracks.
@item
J. Kean Johnston for OpenServer support.
@item
+Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
+Kenner's "``toy'' language".
+
+@item
+Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation.
+
+@item
Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
@item
David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
@item
-Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for Linux.
+Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bugfixes and optimizations of
+strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.
+
+@item
+Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
+and his automatic regression tester.
@item
-Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with g++.
+Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with g++ and for a lot of early work
+in just about every part of libstdc++.
@item
Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
head maintainer of GCC for several years.
@item
-Mumit Khan for various contributions to the cygwin and mingw32 ports and
-maintaining binary releases for Windows hosts.
+Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and
+maintaining binary releases for Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++
+porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32.
@item
Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
@item
-Benjamin Kosnik for his g++ work.
+Benjamin Kosnik for his g++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
@item
Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for improvements to demangler and various c++ fixes.
@item
-Warren Levy major work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and random
-work on the Java front end.
+Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
+random work on the Java front end.
+
+@item
+Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU.
@item
-Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the Mips cpu.
+Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and
+patches.
@item
Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
@item
Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
-and various C++ improvements including namespace support.
+various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of
+assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges.
@item
H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
-bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the Linux ports working.
+bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
@item
Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
@item
-Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS powerpc, haifa,
-ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
+Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and
+improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.
+
+@item
+All of the Mauve project
+@uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/mauve/THANKS?rev=1.2&cvsroot=mauve&only_with_tag=HEAD,,contributors},
+for Java test code.
+
+@item
+Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.
+
+@item
+Adam Megacz for his work on the Win32 port of GCJ.
+
+@item
+Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
+powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
@item
Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
@item
+Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bugfixes, and turning the
+entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.
+
+@item
Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
-ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.0.
+ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.x.
@item
-Alan Modra for various Linux bits and testing.
+Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
@item
Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
@item
Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
-services, ftp services, etc etc.
+services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and
+the backs of envelopes would have been... difficult.
@item
Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
-way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC Linux
-kernels.
+way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
+Linux kernels.
+
+@item
+Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.
@item
David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements.
C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
@item
-Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3.
+Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship
+through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale
+infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project
+documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on
+MT-safe string and shadow headers.
+
+@item
+Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.
@item
NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
language.
@item
-Hans-Peter Nilsson for improvements to the search engine
-setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
+Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
+engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
@item
Geoff Noer for this work on getting cygwin native builds working.
@item
+David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
+FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
+improvements.
+
+@item
Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
-amazing testing work.
+amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy.
@item
Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
@item
Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to our o32
-ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, etc.
+ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
+clean-ups and porting work, etc.
@item
Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
@item
-Alexandre Petit-Bianco for his Java work.
+Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and
+continued Java maintainership.
@item
Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
@item
-Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the ObjC front end and runtime libraries.
+Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
+libraries.
@item
-Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, mips ports and various
+Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
cleanups in the compiler.
@item
+Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT.
+
+@item
David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
port.
-@item
-Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions and maintenance of libstdc++-v3,
-including valarray implementation and limits support.
@item
Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
hacking.
@item
+Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD
+port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical
+threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems.
+
+@item
+Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
+
+@item
Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
@item
Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
@item
+Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits,
+Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support.
+
+@item
Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
@item
Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
@item
+Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ.
+
+@item
Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
@item
GCC 2.95.3.
@item
+Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++ -- especially application
+testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release
+criteria -- and libstdc++ header file tweaks.
+
+@item
+Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.
+
+@item
Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
@item
folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
@item
+Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from
+the LWG (thereby keeping us in line with updates from the ISO).
+
+@item
Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
for linux.
Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
@item
-Scott Snyder for various fixes.
+Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++
+testsuite entries.
+
+@item
+Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique.
@item
Richard Stallman, for writing the original gcc and launching the GNU project.
Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
@item
+John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.
+
+@item
Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, g++ contributions over the years and more
recently his vxworks contributions
@item
+Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.
+
+@item
Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
@item
fixincludes, etc.
@item
-Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper cpu.
+Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU.
@item
-Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for Linux.
+Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
@item
Philipp Thomas for random bugfixes throughout the compiler
@item
+Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD.
+
+@item
Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
-language.
+language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
@item
-Michael Tiemann for random bugfixes the first instruction scheduler,
-initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, sparc and M88k
+Michael Tiemann for random bugfixes, the first instruction scheduler,
+initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
@item
+Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.
+
+@item
Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
@item
definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
@item
-Tom Tromey for internationalization support and his Java work.
+Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java
+contributions and libgcj maintainership.
@item
Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
types.
@item
+Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes.
+
+@item
+Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their
+associated configure steps.
+
+@item
Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
@item
+Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML
+guidance.
+
+@item
Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
in time for GCC 3.0.
Krister Walfridsson for random bugfixes.
@item
+Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files
+work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time
+header tree.
+
+@item
John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bugfixes.
@item
+Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ.
+
+@item
+Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.
+
+@item
+Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with
+Classpath.
+
+@item
Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
@item
+Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
+
+@item
Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
reduction and other loop optimizations.
@item
Kevin Zachmann helped ported GCC to the Tahoe.
+@item
+Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.
+
@end itemize
@itemize @bullet
@item
+Michael Abd-El-Malek
+
+@item
+Thomas Arend
+
+@item
+Bonzo Armstrong
+
+@item
+Steven Ashe
+
+@item
+Chris Baldwin
+
+@item
David Billinghurst
@item
+Jim Blandy
+
+@item
+Stephane Bortzmeyer
+
+@item
Horst von Brand
@item
+Frank Braun
+
+@item
Rodney Brown
@item
Craig Burley
@item
+Sidney Cadot
+
+@item
+Bradford Castalia
+
+@item
+Ralph Doncaster
+
+@item
Ulrich Drepper
@item
David Edelsohn
@item
+Richard Emberson
+
+@item
+Levente Farkas
+
+@item
+Graham Fawcett
+
+@item
+Robert A. French
+
+@item
+J@"orgen Freyh
+
+@item
+Mark K. Gardner
+
+@item
+Charles-Antoine Gauthier
+
+@item
Yung Shing Gene
@item
Kaveh Ghazi
@item
+David Gilbert
+
+@item
+Simon Gornall
+
+@item
+Fred Gray
+
+@item
+John Griffin
+
+@item
+Patrik Hagglund
+
+@item
+Phil Hargett
+
+@item
+Amancio Hasty
+
+@item
+Bryan W. Headley
+
+@item
Kate Hedstrom
@item
Richard Henderson
@item
+Kevin B. Hendricks
+
+@item
Manfred Hollstein
@item
Kamil Iskra
@item
+Joep Jansen
+
+@item
Christian Joensson
@item
+David Kidd
+
+@item
+Tobias Kuipers
+
+@item
+Anand Krishnaswamy
+
+@item
Jeff Law
@item
Robert Lipe
@item
+llewelly
+
+@item
Damon Love
@item
H.J. Lu
@item
+Brad Lucier
+
+@item
Mumit Khan
@item
Martin Knoblauch
@item
+Jesse Macnish
+
+@item
David Miller
@item
Toon Moene
@item
+Stefan Morrell
+
+@item
+Anon A. Mous
+
+@item
Matthias Mueller
@item
+Pekka Nikander
+
+@item
Alexandre Oliva
@item
+Jon Olson
+
+@item
+Magnus Persson
+
+@item
+Chris Pollard
+
+@item
Richard Polton
@item
David Rees
@item
+Paul Reilly
+
+@item
+Tom Reilly
+
+@item
+Loren J. Rittle
+
+@item
+Torsten Rueger
+
+@item
+Danny Sadinoff
+
+@item
+Marc Schifer
+
+@item
Peter Schmid
@item
Franz Sirl
@item
+Tim Souder
+
+@item
Mike Stump
@item
+Adam Sulmicki
+
+@item
+George Talbot
+
+@item
+Gregory Warnes
+
+@item
Carlo Wood
@item
+David E. Young
+
+@item
And many others
@end itemize