1 The GCC project would like to thank its many contributors. Without them the
2 project would not have been nearly as successful as it has been. Any omissions
3 in this list are accidental. Feel free to contact
4 @email{law@@cygnus.com} if you have been left out
5 or some of your contributions are not listed. Please keep this list in
11 Analog Devices helped implement the support for complex data types
15 James van Artsdalen wrote the code that makes efficient use of
16 the Intel 80387 register stack.
19 Alasdair Baird for various bugfixes.
22 Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front-end.
25 Neil Booth for various work on cpplib.
28 Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
29 improvements to our infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
33 Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
36 Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
39 Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
42 Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
45 Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
48 Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
51 Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
54 Craig Burley for leadership of the Fortran effort.
57 John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
58 previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
61 Steve Chamberlain wrote the support for the Hitachi SH and H8 processors
62 and the PicoJava processor.
65 Scott Christley for his ObjC contributions.
68 Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
71 Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, --help, and other random
75 Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing.
78 Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
82 Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
85 Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
88 Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
89 that print a copy of their source.
92 Ulrich Drepper for his work on the C++ runtime libraries, glibc,
93 testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99 support, CFG dumping support, etc.
96 Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM.
99 David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee,
100 ongoing work with the RS6000/PowerPC port, and help cleaning up Haifa
104 Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements.
107 Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
108 own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
111 Paul Eggert for random hacking all over gcc.
114 Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
117 Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
121 Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
124 Peter Gerwinski for various bugfixes and the Pascal front end.
127 Anthony Green for his -Os contributions and Java front end work.
130 Kaveh Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee and
131 amazing work to make -W -Wall useful.
134 Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
137 Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
138 multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
139 support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
140 via the steering committee.
143 Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
146 Ron Guilmette implemented the @code{protoize} and @code{unprotoize}
147 tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
148 the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
149 Intel 386 and 860 support.
152 Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
153 warnings and assorted bugfixes.
156 Andrew Haley for his Java work.
159 Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
162 Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
163 the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
167 Kate Hedstrom for staking the g77 folks with an initial testsuite.
170 Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC and alpha work, loop opts, and
171 generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for years, flow
172 rewrite and lots of stuff I've forgotten.
175 Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
176 the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
179 Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
180 of testing an bugfixing, particularly of our configury code.
183 Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
186 Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
189 Christian Iseli for various bugfixes.
192 Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
195 Lee Iverson for random fixes and mips testing.
198 Andreas Jaeger for various fixes to the MIPS port
201 Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations.
204 J. Kean Johnston for OpenServer support.
207 Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
210 David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS.
213 Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
214 Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
215 Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
216 instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
217 processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
218 strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
219 code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
220 elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
221 head maintainer of GCC for several years.
224 Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
227 Mark Klein for PA improvements.
230 Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for Linux.
233 Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with g++.
236 Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
240 Mumit Khan for various contributions to the cygwin and mingw32 ports and
241 maintaining binary releases for Windows hosts.
244 Thomas Koenig for various bugfixes.
247 Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
250 Benjamin Kosnik for his g++ work.
253 Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
256 Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
260 Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
261 entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
262 handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
263 fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
266 Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
267 with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
270 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for improvements to demangler and various c++ fixes.
273 Warren Levy major work on libgjc (Java Runtime Library) and random
274 work on the Java front-end.
277 Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the Mips cpu.
280 Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
283 Weiwen Liu for testing and various bugfixes.
286 Martin von Löwis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
287 and various C++ improvements including namespace support.
290 Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
294 H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
295 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the Linux ports working.
298 Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
299 various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
302 Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
305 Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC
306 hacking improvements to compile-time performance and overall knowledge
307 and direction in the area of instruction scheduling.
310 Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
313 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS powerpc, haifa,
314 ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
317 Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
321 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
322 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine -- mail, web
323 services, ftp services, etc etc.
326 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements.
329 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
330 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
331 than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
334 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
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
346 of C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops and alias analysis
347 improvements, ISO "restrict" support.
350 Alan Modra for various Linux bits and testing.
353 Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
354 maintainance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
357 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
358 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC Linux
362 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
365 Joseph Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
369 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3.
372 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective C
376 Hans-Peter Nilsson for improvements to the search engine
377 setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
380 Geoff Noer for this work on getting cygwin native builds working.
383 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
384 amazing testing work.
387 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to our o32
388 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, etc.
391 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
394 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
397 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for his Java work.
400 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
403 Gerald Pfeifer his direction via the steering committee, maintenance of
404 the web pages and pointing out lots of problems we need to solve.
407 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the ObjC front end and runtime libraries.
410 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, mips ports and various
411 cleanups in the compiler.
414 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
417 Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions and maintenance of libstdc++-v3,
418 including valarray implementation and limits support.
421 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
425 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
428 Ken Rose for fixes to our delay slot filling code.
431 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
434 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
437 Graham Stott. for various infrastructure improvements.
440 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
443 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
446 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
449 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
452 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
453 work in the reload pass.
456 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
460 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
461 contributions and RTEMS testing.
464 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
467 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
468 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
469 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
472 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
475 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
478 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
481 Scott Snyder for various fixes.
484 Richard Stallman, for writing the original gcc and launching the GNU project.
487 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
488 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
491 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
494 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
497 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, g++ contributions over the years and more
498 recently his vxworks contributions
501 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
504 Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking,
508 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper cpu.
511 Michael Tiemann for random bugfixes the first instruction scheduler,
512 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, sparc and M88k
513 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
516 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for Linux.
519 Philipp Thomas for random bugfixes throughout the compiler
522 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective C
526 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
529 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
530 definitions, and of the Vax machine description.
533 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and his Java work.
536 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
540 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
543 Krister Walfridsson for random bugfixes.
546 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
547 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
548 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
551 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
554 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bugfixes.
557 Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
558 problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
559 reduction and other loop optimizations.
562 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
565 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
568 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
569 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
572 Kevin Zachmann helped ported GCC to the Tahoe.
577 We'd also like to thank the folks who have contributed time and energy in
687 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug
688 reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.