1 @c Copyright (C) 1988,1989,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,
2 @c 2001,2002,2003 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 Windows port of Java.
61 Daniel Berlin for better DWARF2 support, faster/better optimizations,
62 improved alias analysis, plus migrating us 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 Segher Boessenkool for various fixes.
75 Hans-J. Boehm for his @uref{http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/,,
76 garbage collector}, IA-64 libffi port, and other Java work.
79 Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other
80 miscellaneous clean-ups.
83 Eric Botcazou for fixing middle- and backend bugs left and right.
86 Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
87 improvements to our infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
88 front end implementation. Initial implementations of
89 cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++)
90 maintainer. Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of GCJ.
93 Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
96 Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
99 Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
102 Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
105 Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
108 Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
111 Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ.
114 Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
117 Craig Burley for leadership of the Fortran effort.
120 Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++.
123 Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to
124 the string class, hard detective work on the frustrating localization
125 issues, and keeping up with the problem reports.
128 John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
129 previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
132 Stephane Carrez for 68HC11 and 68HC12 ports.
135 Steve Chamberlain for support for the Renesas SH and H8 processors
136 and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.
139 Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ.
142 John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches.
145 Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
148 Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.
151 Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
154 The @uref{http://www.classpath.org,,GNU Classpath project}
155 for all of their merged runtime code.
158 Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and
159 other random hacking.
162 Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings.
165 Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing.
168 Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
172 Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
175 Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
178 Paul Dale for his work to add uClinux platform support to the
182 Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
183 that print a copy of their source.
186 Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.
189 Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes.
192 DJ Delorie for the DJGPP port, build and libiberty maintenance, and
196 Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to g++, contributions and
197 maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3,
198 including valarray<>, complex<>, maintaining the numerics library
199 (including that pesky <limits> :-) and keeping up-to-date anything
203 Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99
204 support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime
205 libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and
206 maintaining complex<>, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration
207 architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.
210 Zdenek Dvorak for a new loop unroller and various fixes.
213 Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
216 David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work
217 with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes,
218 doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands, and for
219 ensuring GCC properly keeps working on AIX.
222 Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in
226 Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery,
227 documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional
228 iostream bug fix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
231 Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
234 Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++
235 configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.
238 Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.
241 Christian Ehrhardt for dealing with bug reports.
244 Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
245 own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
248 Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
251 Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
255 Christopher Faylor for his work on the Cygwin port and for caring and
256 feeding the gcc.gnu.org box and saving its users tons of spam.
259 Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
262 Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portugese translation of the GCJ FAQ.
265 Peter Gerwinski for various bug fixes and the Pascal front end.
268 Kaveh Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee,
269 amazing work to make @samp{-W -Wall} useful, and continuously testing
270 GCC on a plethora of platforms.
273 John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.
276 Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
279 Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
280 multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
281 support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
282 via the steering committee.
285 Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work.
288 Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug our code.
291 Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
294 Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
295 tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
296 the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
297 Intel 386 and 860 support.
300 Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
301 warnings and assorted bug fixes.
304 Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
307 Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
310 Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
311 the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
315 Dara Hazeghi for wading through myriads of target-specific bug reports.
318 Kate Hedstrom for staking the g77 folks with an initial testsuite.
321 Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, ia32, and ia64 work, loop
322 opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
323 years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
327 Aldy Hernandez for working on the PowerPC port, SIMD support, and
331 Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
332 the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
335 Kazu Hirata for caring and feeding the Renesas H8/300 port and various fixes.
338 Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
339 of testing and bug fixing, particularly of our configury code.
342 Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
345 Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
348 Falk Hueffner for working on C and optimization bug reports.
351 Bernardo Innocenti for his m68k work, including merging of
352 ColdFire improvements and uClinux support.
355 Christian Iseli for various bug fixes.
358 Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
361 Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
364 Andreas Jaeger for testing and benchmarking of GCC and various bug fixes.
367 Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
368 as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
372 Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes, her quality improvement
373 sidetracks, and web page maintenance.
376 Kean Johnston for SCO OpenServer support and various fixes.
379 Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
380 Kenner's "``toy'' language".
383 Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation.
386 Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
389 David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
392 Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bug fixes and optimizations of
393 strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.
396 Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
397 and his automatic regression tester.
400 Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with g++ and for a lot of early work
401 in just about every part of libstdc++.
404 Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
408 Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
409 Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
410 Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
411 instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
412 processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
413 strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
414 code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
415 elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
416 head maintainer of GCC for several years.
419 Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and
420 maintaining binary releases for Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++
421 porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32.
424 Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
427 Mark Klein for PA improvements.
430 Thomas Koenig for various bug fixes.
433 Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
436 Benjamin Kosnik for his g++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
439 Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
443 Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
444 entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
445 handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
446 fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
449 Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
450 with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
453 Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
456 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for C++ improvements including template as template
457 parameter support, and many C++ fixes.
460 Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
461 random work on the Java front end.
464 Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU.
467 Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and
471 Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
474 Weiwen Liu for testing and various bug fixes.
477 Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
481 Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
482 various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of
483 assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges.
486 H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
487 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
490 Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
493 Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
494 various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
497 Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking
498 improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and
499 direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and
500 implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler.
503 Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
506 Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and
507 improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.
510 All of the Mauve project
511 @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/mauve/THANKS?rev=1.2&cvsroot=mauve&only_with_tag=HEAD,,contributors},
515 Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.
518 Adam Megacz for his work on the Windows port of GCJ.
521 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
522 powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
525 Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
529 David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
530 SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
534 Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
537 Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bug fixes, and turning the
538 entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.
541 Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
542 C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
543 ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.x.
546 Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
549 Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
550 maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
553 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
554 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
555 services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and
556 the backs of envelopes would have been... difficult.
559 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
560 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
564 Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.
567 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements.
570 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
571 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
572 than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
575 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
578 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
581 Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
582 C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
585 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship
586 through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale
587 infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project
588 documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on
589 MT-safe string and shadow headers.
592 Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.
595 Nathanael Nerode for cleaning up the configuration/build process.
598 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
602 Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
603 engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
606 Geoff Noer for this work on getting cygwin native builds working.
609 Diego Novillo for his SPEC performance tracking web pages and assorted
610 fixes in the middle end and various back ends.
613 David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
614 FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
618 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
619 amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy.
622 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
625 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to our o32
626 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
627 clean-ups and porting work, etc.
630 Hartmut Penner for work on the s390 port.
633 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
636 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and
637 continued Java maintainership.
640 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
643 Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
644 out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
645 taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
648 Andrew Pinski for processing bug reports by the dozen.
651 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
655 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
656 cleanups in the compiler.
659 Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT.
662 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
666 Volker Reichelt for keeping up with the problem reports.
669 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
673 Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD
674 port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical
675 threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems,
676 as well as keeping GCC properly working on FreeBSD and continuous testing.
679 Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
682 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
685 Ken Rose for fixes to our delay slot filling code.
688 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
691 Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits,
692 Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support.
695 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
698 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
701 Roger Sayle for improvements to constant folding and GCC's RTL optimizers
702 as well as for fixing numerous bugs.
705 Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ.
708 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
711 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
714 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
715 work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
719 Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++ -- especially application
720 testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release
721 criteria -- and libstdc++ header file tweaks.
724 Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.
727 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
730 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
731 contributions and RTEMS testing.
734 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
737 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
738 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
739 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
742 Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from
743 the LWG (thereby keeping us in line with updates from the ISO).
746 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
750 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
753 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
756 Danny Smith for his major efforts on the Mingw (and Cygwin) ports.
759 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
762 Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++
766 Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique.
769 Richard Stallman, for writing the original gcc and launching the GNU project.
772 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
773 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
776 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
779 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
782 Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
785 John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.
788 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, g++ contributions over the years and more
789 recently his vxworks contributions
792 Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.
795 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
798 Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking,
802 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU.
805 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
808 Philipp Thomas for random bug fixes throughout the compiler
811 Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD.
814 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
815 language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
818 Michael Tiemann for random bug fixes, the first instruction scheduler,
819 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
820 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
823 Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.
826 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
829 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
830 definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
833 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java
834 contributions and libgcj maintainership.
837 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
841 Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes.
844 Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their
845 associated configure steps.
848 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
851 Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML
855 Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
859 Krister Walfridsson for random bug fixes.
862 Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files
863 work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time
867 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
868 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
869 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
872 Ulrich Weigand for work on the s390 port.
875 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bug fixes.
878 Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ.
881 Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.
884 Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with
888 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
891 Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
894 Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
895 problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
896 reduction and other loop optimizations.
899 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
902 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
905 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
906 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
909 Kevin Zachmann helped ported GCC to the Tahoe.
912 Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.
916 In addition to the above, all of which also contributed time and energy in
917 testing GCC, we would like to thank the following for their contributions
982 Charles-Antoine Gauthier
1114 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug
1115 reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.