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2 @c 2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009 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 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 Uros Bizjak for the implementation of x87 math built-in functions and
69 for various middle end and i386 back end improvements and bug fixes.
72 Eric Blake for helping to make GCJ and libgcj conform to the
76 Janne Blomqvist for contributions to GNU Fortran.
79 Segher Boessenkool for various fixes.
82 Hans-J. Boehm for his @uref{http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/,,
83 garbage collector}, IA-64 libffi port, and other Java work.
86 Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other
87 miscellaneous clean-ups.
90 Steven Bosscher for integrating the GNU Fortran front end into GCC and for
91 contributing to the tree-ssa branch.
94 Eric Botcazou for fixing middle- and backend bugs left and right.
97 Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
98 improvements to the infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
99 front end implementation. Initial implementations of
100 cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++)
101 maintainer. Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of GCJ@.
104 Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
107 Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
110 Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
113 Paul Brook for work on the ARM architecture and maintaining GNU Fortran.
116 Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
119 Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
122 Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
125 Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ@.
128 Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
131 Craig Burley for leadership of the G77 Fortran effort.
134 Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++.
137 Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to
138 the C++ strings, streambufs and formatted I/O, hard detective work on
139 the frustrating localization issues, and keeping up with the problem reports.
142 John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
143 previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
146 Stephane Carrez for 68HC11 and 68HC12 ports.
149 Steve Chamberlain for support for the Renesas SH and H8 processors
150 and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.
153 Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ@.
156 John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches.
159 Denis Chertykov for contributing and maintaining the AVR port, the first GCC port
160 for an 8-bit architecture.
163 Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
166 Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.
169 Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
172 The @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/,,GNU Classpath project}
173 for all of their merged runtime code.
176 Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r, rx work,
177 @option{--help}, and other random hacking.
180 Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings.
183 R. Kelley Cook for making GCC buildable from a read-only directory as
184 well as other miscellaneous build process and documentation clean-ups.
187 Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bug fixing.
190 Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
194 Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
197 Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
200 Paul Dale for his work to add uClinux platform support to the
204 Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
205 that print a copy of their source.
208 Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.
211 Bud Davis for work on the G77 and GNU Fortran compilers.
214 Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes.
217 DJ Delorie for the DJGPP port, build and libiberty maintenance,
218 various bug fixes, and the M32C and MeP ports.
221 Arnaud Desitter for helping to debug GNU Fortran.
224 Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to G++, contributions and
225 maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3,
226 including @code{valarray<>}, @code{complex<>}, maintaining the numerics library
227 (including that pesky @code{<limits>} :-) and keeping up-to-date anything
231 Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99
232 support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime
233 libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and
234 maintaining @code{complex<>}, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration
235 architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.
238 Zdenek Dvorak for a new loop unroller and various fixes.
241 Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
244 David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work
245 with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes,
246 doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands, and for
247 ensuring GCC properly keeps working on AIX@.
250 Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in
254 Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery,
255 documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional
256 iostream bug fix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
259 Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
262 Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++
263 configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.
266 Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.
269 Christian Ehrhardt for dealing with bug reports.
272 Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
273 own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
276 Revital Eres for work on the PowerPC 750CL port.
279 Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
282 Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
286 Christopher Faylor for his work on the Cygwin port and for caring and
287 feeding the gcc.gnu.org box and saving its users tons of spam.
290 Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
293 Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portuguese translation of the GCJ FAQ@.
296 Peter Gerwinski for various bug fixes and the Pascal front end.
299 Kaveh R.@: Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee, amazing
300 work to make @samp{-W -Wall -W* -Werror} useful, and continuously
301 testing GCC on a plethora of platforms. Kaveh extends his gratitude to
302 the @uref{http://www.caip.rutgers.edu,,CAIP Center} at Rutgers
303 University for providing him with computing resources to work on Free
304 Software since the late 1980s.
307 John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.
310 Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
313 Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
314 multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
315 support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
316 via the steering committee.
319 Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions, the moxie port, and
323 Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug Java code.
326 Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
329 Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
330 tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
331 the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
332 Intel 386 and 860 support.
335 Mostafa Hagog for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS) and post reload GCSE@.
338 Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
339 warnings and assorted bug fixes.
342 Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
345 Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
348 Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
349 the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
353 Dara Hazeghi for wading through myriads of target-specific bug reports.
356 Kate Hedstrom for staking the G77 folks with an initial testsuite.
359 Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, ia32, and ia64 work, loop
360 opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
361 years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
365 Aldy Hernandez for working on the PowerPC port, SIMD support, and
369 Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
370 the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
373 Kazu Hirata for caring and feeding the Renesas H8/300 port and various fixes.
376 Katherine Holcomb for work on GNU Fortran.
379 Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
380 of testing and bug fixing, particularly of GCC configury code.
383 Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
386 Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
389 Falk Hueffner for working on C and optimization bug reports.
392 Bernardo Innocenti for his m68k work, including merging of
393 ColdFire improvements and uClinux support.
396 Christian Iseli for various bug fixes.
399 Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
402 Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
405 Andreas Jaeger for testing and benchmarking of GCC and various bug fixes.
408 Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
409 as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
413 Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes, her quality improvement
414 sidetracks, and web page maintenance.
417 Kean Johnston for SCO OpenServer support and various fixes.
420 Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
421 Kenner's ``toy'' language.
424 Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation.
427 Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
430 Steven G. Kargl for work on GNU Fortran.
433 David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
436 Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bug fixes and optimizations of
437 strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.
440 Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
441 and his automatic regression tester.
444 Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with G++ and for a lot of early work
445 in just about every part of libstdc++.
448 Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
452 Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
453 Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
454 Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
455 instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
456 processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
457 strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
458 code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
459 elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
460 head maintainer of GCC for several years.
463 Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and
464 maintaining binary releases for Microsoft Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++
465 porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32.
468 Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
471 Mark Klein for PA improvements.
474 Thomas Koenig for various bug fixes.
477 Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
480 Benjamin Kosnik for his G++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
483 Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
487 Asher Langton and Mike Kumbera for contributing Cray pointer support
488 to GNU Fortran, and for other GNU Fortran improvements.
491 Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
492 entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
493 handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
494 fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
497 Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
498 with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
501 Victor Leikehman for work on GNU Fortran.
504 Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
507 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for C++ improvements including template as template
508 parameter support, and many C++ fixes.
511 Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
512 random work on the Java front end.
515 Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU@.
518 Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and
522 Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
525 Chen Liqin for various S+core related fixes/improvement, and for
526 maintaining the S+core port.
529 Weiwen Liu for testing and various bug fixes.
532 Manuel L@'opez-Ib@'a@~nez for improving @option{-Wconversion} and
533 many other diagnostics fixes and improvements.
536 Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
540 Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
541 various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of
542 assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges.
545 H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
546 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
549 Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
552 Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
553 various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
556 Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking
557 improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and
558 direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and
559 implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler.
562 Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
565 Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and
566 improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.
569 All of the Mauve project
570 @uref{http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/mauve/THANKS?rev=1.2&cvsroot=mauve&only_with_tag=HEAD,,contributors},
574 Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.
577 Adam Megacz for his work on the Microsoft Windows port of GCJ@.
580 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
581 powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
584 Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
588 Martin Michlmayr for testing GCC on several architectures using the
589 entire Debian archive.
592 David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
593 SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
597 Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
600 Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bug fixes, and turning the
601 entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.
604 Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
605 C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
606 ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.x.
609 Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
612 Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
613 maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
616 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
617 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
618 services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and
619 the backs of envelopes would have been@dots{} difficult.
622 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
623 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
627 Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.
630 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements, and for the initial
634 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
635 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
636 than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
639 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
642 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
645 Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
646 C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
649 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship
650 through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale
651 infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project
652 documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on
653 MT-safe string and shadow headers.
656 Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.
659 Nathanael Nerode for cleaning up the configuration/build process.
662 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
666 Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
667 engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
670 Geoff Noer for his work on getting cygwin native builds working.
673 Diego Novillo for his work on Tree SSA, OpenMP, SPEC performance
674 tracking web pages, GIMPLE tuples, and assorted fixes.
677 David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
678 FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
682 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
683 amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy.
686 Stefan Olsson for work on mt_alloc.
689 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
692 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to GCC's o32
693 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
694 clean-ups and porting work, etc.
697 Hartmut Penner for work on the s390 port.
700 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
703 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and
704 continued Java maintainership.
707 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
710 Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
711 out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
712 taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
715 Andrew Pinski for processing bug reports by the dozen.
718 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
722 Jerry Quinn for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O@.
725 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
726 cleanups in the compiler.
729 Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT@.
732 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
736 Volker Reichelt for keeping up with the problem reports.
739 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
743 Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD
744 port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical
745 threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems,
746 as well as keeping GCC properly working on FreeBSD and continuous testing.
749 Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
752 Ola R@"onnerup for work on mt_alloc.
755 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
758 David Ronis inspired and encouraged Craig to rewrite the G77
759 documentation in texinfo format by contributing a first pass at a
760 translation of the old @file{g77-0.5.16/f/DOC} file.
763 Ken Rose for fixes to GCC's delay slot filling code.
766 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
769 P@'etur Run@'olfsson for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O and
770 large file support in C++ filebuf.
773 Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits,
774 Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support.
777 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
780 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
783 Roger Sayle for improvements to constant folding and GCC's RTL optimizers
784 as well as for fixing numerous bugs.
787 Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ@.
790 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
793 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
796 Tobias Schl@"uter for work on GNU Fortran.
799 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
800 work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
804 Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++---especially application
805 testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release
806 criteria---and libstdc++ header file tweaks.
809 Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.
812 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
815 Lars Segerlund for work on GNU Fortran.
818 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
819 contributions and RTEMS testing.
822 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
825 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
826 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
827 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
830 Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from
831 the LWG (thereby keeping GCC in line with updates from the ISO)@.
834 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
838 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
841 Trevor Smigiel for contributing the SPU port.
844 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
847 Danny Smith for his major efforts on the Mingw (and Cygwin) ports.
850 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
853 Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++
854 testsuite entries. Also for providing the patch to G77 to add
855 rudimentary support for @code{INTEGER*1}, @code{INTEGER*2}, and
859 Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique.
862 Richard Stallman, for writing the original GCC and launching the GNU project.
865 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
866 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
869 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
872 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
875 Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
878 John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.
881 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, G++ contributions over the years and more
882 recently his vxworks contributions
885 Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.
888 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
891 Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking,
895 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU@.
898 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
901 Philipp Thomas for random bug fixes throughout the compiler
904 Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD@.
907 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
908 language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
911 Michael Tiemann for random bug fixes, the first instruction scheduler,
912 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
913 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
916 Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.
919 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
922 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
923 definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
926 Daniel Towner and Hariharan Sandanagobalane contributed and
927 maintain the picoChip port.
930 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java
931 contributions and libgcj maintainership.
934 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
938 Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes.
941 Andy Vaught for the design and initial implementation of the GNU Fortran
945 Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their
946 associated configure steps.
949 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
952 Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML
956 Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
960 Krister Walfridsson for random bug fixes.
963 Feng Wang for contributions to GNU Fortran.
966 Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files
967 work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time
971 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
972 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
973 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
976 Ulrich Weigand for work on the s390 port.
979 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bug fixes.
982 Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ@.
985 Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.
988 Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with
992 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
995 Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
998 Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
999 problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
1000 reduction and other loop optimizations.
1003 Paul Woegerer and Tal Agmon for the CRX port.
1006 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
1009 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
1012 Canqun Yang for work on GNU Fortran.
1015 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
1016 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
1019 Kevin Zachmann helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
1022 Ayal Zaks for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS).
1025 Xiaoqiang Zhang for work on GNU Fortran.
1028 Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.
1032 The following people are recognized for their contributions to GNAT,
1033 the Ada front end of GCC:
1179 The following people are recognized for their contributions of new
1180 features, bug reports, testing and integration of classpath/libgcj for
1184 Lillian Angel for @code{JTree} implementation and lots Free Swing
1185 additions and bug fixes.
1188 Wolfgang Baer for @code{GapContent} bug fixes.
1191 Anthony Balkissoon for @code{JList}, Free Swing 1.5 updates and mouse event
1192 fixes, lots of Free Swing work including @code{JTable} editing.
1195 Stuart Ballard for RMI constant fixes.
1198 Goffredo Baroncelli for @code{HTTPURLConnection} fixes.
1201 Gary Benson for @code{MessageFormat} fixes.
1204 Daniel Bonniot for @code{Serialization} fixes.
1207 Chris Burdess for lots of gnu.xml and http protocol fixes, @code{StAX}
1208 and @code{DOM xml:id} support.
1211 Ka-Hing Cheung for @code{TreePath} and @code{TreeSelection} fixes.
1214 Archie Cobbs for build fixes, VM interface updates,
1215 @code{URLClassLoader} updates.
1218 Kelley Cook for build fixes.
1221 Martin Cordova for Suggestions for better @code{SocketTimeoutException}.
1224 David Daney for @code{BitSet} bug fixes, @code{HttpURLConnection}
1225 rewrite and improvements.
1228 Thomas Fitzsimmons for lots of upgrades to the gtk+ AWT and Cairo 2D
1229 support. Lots of imageio framework additions, lots of AWT and Free
1233 Jeroen Frijters for @code{ClassLoader} and nio cleanups, serialization fixes,
1234 better @code{Proxy} support, bug fixes and IKVM integration.
1237 Santiago Gala for @code{AccessControlContext} fixes.
1240 Nicolas Geoffray for @code{VMClassLoader} and @code{AccessController}
1244 David Gilbert for @code{basic} and @code{metal} icon and plaf support
1245 and lots of documenting, Lots of Free Swing and metal theme
1246 additions. @code{MetalIconFactory} implementation.
1249 Anthony Green for @code{MIDI} framework, @code{ALSA} and @code{DSSI}
1253 Andrew Haley for @code{Serialization} and @code{URLClassLoader} fixes,
1257 Kim Ho for @code{JFileChooser} implementation.
1260 Andrew John Hughes for @code{Locale} and net fixes, URI RFC2986
1261 updates, @code{Serialization} fixes, @code{Properties} XML support and
1262 generic branch work, VMIntegration guide update.
1265 Bastiaan Huisman for @code{TimeZone} bug fixing.
1268 Andreas Jaeger for mprec updates.
1271 Paul Jenner for better @option{-Werror} support.
1274 Ito Kazumitsu for @code{NetworkInterface} implementation and updates.
1277 Roman Kennke for @code{BoxLayout}, @code{GrayFilter} and
1278 @code{SplitPane}, plus bug fixes all over. Lots of Free Swing work
1279 including styled text.
1282 Simon Kitching for @code{String} cleanups and optimization suggestions.
1285 Michael Koch for configuration fixes, @code{Locale} updates, bug and
1289 Guilhem Lavaux for configuration, thread and channel fixes and Kaffe
1290 integration. JCL native @code{Pointer} updates. Logger bug fixes.
1293 David Lichteblau for JCL support library global/local reference
1297 Aaron Luchko for JDWP updates and documentation fixes.
1300 Ziga Mahkovec for @code{Graphics2D} upgraded to Cairo 0.5 and new regex
1304 Sven de Marothy for BMP imageio support, CSS and @code{TextLayout}
1305 fixes. @code{GtkImage} rewrite, 2D, awt, free swing and date/time fixes and
1306 implementing the Qt4 peers.
1309 Casey Marshall for crypto algorithm fixes, @code{FileChannel} lock,
1310 @code{SystemLogger} and @code{FileHandler} rotate implementations, NIO
1311 @code{FileChannel.map} support, security and policy updates.
1314 Bryce McKinlay for RMI work.
1317 Audrius Meskauskas for lots of Free Corba, RMI and HTML work plus
1318 testing and documenting.
1321 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo for build fixes.
1324 Rainer Orth for build fixes.
1327 Andrew Overholt for @code{File} locking fixes.
1330 Ingo Proetel for @code{Image}, @code{Logger} and @code{URLClassLoader}
1334 Olga Rodimina for @code{MenuSelectionManager} implementation.
1337 Jan Roehrich for @code{BasicTreeUI} and @code{JTree} fixes.
1340 Julian Scheid for documentation updates and gjdoc support.
1343 Christian Schlichtherle for zip fixes and cleanups.
1346 Robert Schuster for documentation updates and beans fixes,
1347 @code{TreeNode} enumerations and @code{ActionCommand} and various
1348 fixes, XML and URL, AWT and Free Swing bug fixes.
1351 Keith Seitz for lots of JDWP work.
1354 Christian Thalinger for 64-bit cleanups, Configuration and VM
1355 interface fixes and @code{CACAO} integration, @code{fdlibm} updates.
1358 Gael Thomas for @code{VMClassLoader} boot packages support suggestions.
1361 Andreas Tobler for Darwin and Solaris testing and fixing, @code{Qt4}
1362 support for Darwin/OS X, @code{Graphics2D} support, @code{gtk+}
1366 Dalibor Topic for better @code{DEBUG} support, build cleanups and
1367 Kaffe integration. @code{Qt4} build infrastructure, @code{SHA1PRNG}
1368 and @code{GdkPixbugDecoder} updates.
1371 Tom Tromey for Eclipse integration, generics work, lots of bug fixes
1372 and gcj integration including coordinating The Big Merge.
1375 Mark Wielaard for bug fixes, packaging and release management,
1376 @code{Clipboard} implementation, system call interrupts and network
1377 timeouts and @code{GdkPixpufDecoder} fixes.
1382 In addition to the above, all of which also contributed time and energy in
1383 testing GCC, we would like to thank the following for their contributions
1388 Michael Abd-El-Malek
1457 Charles-Antoine Gauthier
1622 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, provides
1623 feedback and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first