1 @c Copyright (C) 1988,1989,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,
2 @c 2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 @c This is part of the GCC manual.
4 @c For copying conditions, see the file gcc.texi.
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 Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
162 Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.
165 Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
168 The @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/,,GNU Classpath project}
169 for all of their merged runtime code.
172 Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and
173 other random hacking.
176 Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings.
179 R. Kelley Cook for making GCC buildable from a read-only directory as
180 well as other miscellaneous build process and documentation clean-ups.
183 Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bug fixing.
186 Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
190 Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
193 Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
196 Paul Dale for his work to add uClinux platform support to the
200 Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
201 that print a copy of their source.
204 Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.
207 Bud Davis for work on the G77 and GNU Fortran compilers.
210 Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes.
213 DJ Delorie for the DJGPP port, build and libiberty maintenance,
214 various bug fixes, and the M32C port.
217 Arnaud Desitter for helping to debug GNU Fortran.
220 Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to G++, contributions and
221 maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3,
222 including @code{valarray<>}, @code{complex<>}, maintaining the numerics library
223 (including that pesky @code{<limits>} :-) and keeping up-to-date anything
227 Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99
228 support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime
229 libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and
230 maintaining @code{complex<>}, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration
231 architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.
234 Zdenek Dvorak for a new loop unroller and various fixes.
237 Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
240 David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work
241 with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes,
242 doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands, and for
243 ensuring GCC properly keeps working on AIX@.
246 Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in
250 Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery,
251 documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional
252 iostream bug fix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
255 Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
258 Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++
259 configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.
262 Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.
265 Christian Ehrhardt for dealing with bug reports.
268 Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
269 own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
272 Revital Eres for work on the PowerPC 750CL port.
275 Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
278 Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
282 Christopher Faylor for his work on the Cygwin port and for caring and
283 feeding the gcc.gnu.org box and saving its users tons of spam.
286 Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
289 Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portuguese translation of the GCJ FAQ@.
292 Peter Gerwinski for various bug fixes and the Pascal front end.
295 Kaveh R.@: Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee, amazing
296 work to make @samp{-W -Wall -W* -Werror} useful, and continuously
297 testing GCC on a plethora of platforms. Kaveh extends his gratitude to
298 the @uref{http://www.caip.rutgers.edu,,CAIP Center} at Rutgers
299 University for providing him with computing resources to work on Free
300 Software since the late 1980s.
303 John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.
306 Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
309 Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
310 multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
311 support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
312 via the steering committee.
315 Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work.
318 Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug Java code.
321 Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
324 Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
325 tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
326 the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
327 Intel 386 and 860 support.
330 Mostafa Hagog for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS) and post reload GCSE@.
333 Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
334 warnings and assorted bug fixes.
337 Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
340 Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
343 Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
344 the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
348 Dara Hazeghi for wading through myriads of target-specific bug reports.
351 Kate Hedstrom for staking the G77 folks with an initial testsuite.
354 Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, ia32, and ia64 work, loop
355 opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
356 years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
360 Aldy Hernandez for working on the PowerPC port, SIMD support, and
364 Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
365 the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
368 Kazu Hirata for caring and feeding the Renesas H8/300 port and various fixes.
371 Katherine Holcomb for work on GNU Fortran.
374 Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
375 of testing and bug fixing, particularly of GCC configury code.
378 Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
381 Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
384 Falk Hueffner for working on C and optimization bug reports.
387 Bernardo Innocenti for his m68k work, including merging of
388 ColdFire improvements and uClinux support.
391 Christian Iseli for various bug fixes.
394 Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
397 Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
400 Andreas Jaeger for testing and benchmarking of GCC and various bug fixes.
403 Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
404 as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
408 Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes, her quality improvement
409 sidetracks, and web page maintenance.
412 Kean Johnston for SCO OpenServer support and various fixes.
415 Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
416 Kenner's ``toy'' language.
419 Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation.
422 Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
425 Steven G. Kargl for work on GNU Fortran.
428 David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
431 Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bug fixes and optimizations of
432 strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.
435 Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
436 and his automatic regression tester.
439 Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with G++ and for a lot of early work
440 in just about every part of libstdc++.
443 Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
447 Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
448 Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
449 Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
450 instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
451 processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
452 strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
453 code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
454 elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
455 head maintainer of GCC for several years.
458 Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and
459 maintaining binary releases for Microsoft Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++
460 porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32.
463 Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
466 Mark Klein for PA improvements.
469 Thomas Koenig for various bug fixes.
472 Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
475 Benjamin Kosnik for his G++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
478 Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
482 Asher Langton and Mike Kumbera for contributing Cray pointer support
483 to GNU Fortran, and for other GNU Fortran improvements.
486 Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
487 entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
488 handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
489 fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
492 Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
493 with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
496 Victor Leikehman for work on GNU Fortran.
499 Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
502 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for C++ improvements including template as template
503 parameter support, and many C++ fixes.
506 Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
507 random work on the Java front end.
510 Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU@.
513 Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and
517 Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
520 Chen Liqin for various S+core related fixes/improvement, and for
521 maintaining the S+core port.
524 Weiwen Liu for testing and various bug fixes.
527 Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
531 Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
532 various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of
533 assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges.
536 H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
537 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
540 Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
543 Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
544 various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
547 Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking
548 improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and
549 direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and
550 implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler.
553 Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
556 Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and
557 improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.
560 All of the Mauve project
561 @uref{http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/mauve/THANKS?rev=1.2&cvsroot=mauve&only_with_tag=HEAD,,contributors},
565 Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.
568 Adam Megacz for his work on the Microsoft Windows port of GCJ@.
571 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
572 powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
575 Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
579 Martin Michlmayr for testing GCC on several architectures using the
580 entire Debian archive.
583 David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
584 SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
588 Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
591 Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bug fixes, and turning the
592 entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.
595 Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
596 C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
597 ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.x.
600 Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
603 Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
604 maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
607 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
608 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
609 services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and
610 the backs of envelopes would have been@dots{} difficult.
613 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
614 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
618 Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.
621 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements, and for the initial
625 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
626 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
627 than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
630 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
633 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
636 Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
637 C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
640 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship
641 through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale
642 infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project
643 documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on
644 MT-safe string and shadow headers.
647 Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.
650 Nathanael Nerode for cleaning up the configuration/build process.
653 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
657 Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
658 engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
661 Geoff Noer for his work on getting cygwin native builds working.
664 Diego Novillo for his work on Tree SSA, OpenMP, SPEC performance
665 tracking web pages and assorted fixes.
668 David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
669 FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
673 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
674 amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy.
677 Stefan Olsson for work on mt_alloc.
680 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
683 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to GCC's o32
684 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
685 clean-ups and porting work, etc.
688 Hartmut Penner for work on the s390 port.
691 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
694 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and
695 continued Java maintainership.
698 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
701 Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
702 out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
703 taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
706 Andrew Pinski for processing bug reports by the dozen.
709 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
713 Jerry Quinn for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O@.
716 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
717 cleanups in the compiler.
720 Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT@.
723 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
727 Volker Reichelt for keeping up with the problem reports.
730 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
734 Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD
735 port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical
736 threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems,
737 as well as keeping GCC properly working on FreeBSD and continuous testing.
740 Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
743 Ola R@"onnerup for work on mt_alloc.
746 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
749 David Ronis inspired and encouraged Craig to rewrite the G77
750 documentation in texinfo format by contributing a first pass at a
751 translation of the old @file{g77-0.5.16/f/DOC} file.
754 Ken Rose for fixes to GCC's delay slot filling code.
757 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
760 P@'etur Run@'olfsson for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O and
761 large file support in C++ filebuf.
764 Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits,
765 Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support.
768 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
771 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
774 Roger Sayle for improvements to constant folding and GCC's RTL optimizers
775 as well as for fixing numerous bugs.
778 Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ@.
781 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
784 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
787 Tobias Schl@"uter for work on GNU Fortran.
790 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
791 work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
795 Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++---especially application
796 testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release
797 criteria---and libstdc++ header file tweaks.
800 Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.
803 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
806 Lars Segerlund for work on GNU Fortran.
809 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
810 contributions and RTEMS testing.
813 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
816 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
817 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
818 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
821 Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from
822 the LWG (thereby keeping GCC in line with updates from the ISO)@.
825 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
829 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
832 Trevor Smigiel for contributing the SPU port.
835 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
838 Danny Smith for his major efforts on the Mingw (and Cygwin) ports.
841 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
844 Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++
845 testsuite entries. Also for providing the patch to G77 to add
846 rudimentary support for @code{INTEGER*1}, @code{INTEGER*2}, and
850 Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique.
853 Richard Stallman, for writing the original GCC and launching the GNU project.
856 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
857 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
860 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
863 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
866 Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
869 John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.
872 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, G++ contributions over the years and more
873 recently his vxworks contributions
876 Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.
879 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
882 Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking,
886 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU@.
889 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
892 Philipp Thomas for random bug fixes throughout the compiler
895 Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD@.
898 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
899 language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
902 Michael Tiemann for random bug fixes, the first instruction scheduler,
903 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
904 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
907 Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.
910 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
913 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
914 definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
917 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java
918 contributions and libgcj maintainership.
921 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
925 Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes.
928 Andy Vaught for the design and initial implementation of the GNU Fortran
932 Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their
933 associated configure steps.
936 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
939 Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML
943 Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
947 Krister Walfridsson for random bug fixes.
950 Feng Wang for contributions to GNU Fortran.
953 Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files
954 work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time
958 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
959 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
960 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
963 Ulrich Weigand for work on the s390 port.
966 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bug fixes.
969 Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ@.
972 Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.
975 Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with
979 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
982 Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
985 Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
986 problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
987 reduction and other loop optimizations.
990 Paul Woegerer and Tal Agmon for the CRX port.
993 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
996 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
999 Canqun Yang for work on GNU Fortran.
1002 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
1003 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
1006 Kevin Zachmann helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
1009 Ayal Zaks for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS).
1012 Xiaoqiang Zhang for work on GNU Fortran.
1015 Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.
1019 The following people are recognized for their contributions to GNAT,
1020 the Ada front end of GCC:
1166 The following people are recognized for their contributions of new
1167 features, bug reports, testing and integration of classpath/libgcj for
1171 Lillian Angel for @code{JTree} implementation and lots Free Swing
1172 additions and bug fixes.
1175 Wolfgang Baer for @code{GapContent} bug fixes.
1178 Anthony Balkissoon for @code{JList}, Free Swing 1.5 updates and mouse event
1179 fixes, lots of Free Swing work including @code{JTable} editing.
1182 Stuart Ballard for RMI constant fixes.
1185 Goffredo Baroncelli for @code{HTTPURLConnection} fixes.
1188 Gary Benson for @code{MessageFormat} fixes.
1191 Daniel Bonniot for @code{Serialization} fixes.
1194 Chris Burdess for lots of gnu.xml and http protocol fixes, @code{StAX}
1195 and @code{DOM xml:id} support.
1198 Ka-Hing Cheung for @code{TreePath} and @code{TreeSelection} fixes.
1201 Archie Cobbs for build fixes, VM interface updates,
1202 @code{URLClassLoader} updates.
1205 Kelley Cook for build fixes.
1208 Martin Cordova for Suggestions for better @code{SocketTimeoutException}.
1211 David Daney for @code{BitSet} bug fixes, @code{HttpURLConnection}
1212 rewrite and improvements.
1215 Thomas Fitzsimmons for lots of upgrades to the gtk+ AWT and Cairo 2D
1216 support. Lots of imageio framework additions, lots of AWT and Free
1220 Jeroen Frijters for @code{ClassLoader} and nio cleanups, serialization fixes,
1221 better @code{Proxy} support, bug fixes and IKVM integration.
1224 Santiago Gala for @code{AccessControlContext} fixes.
1227 Nicolas Geoffray for @code{VMClassLoader} and @code{AccessController}
1231 David Gilbert for @code{basic} and @code{metal} icon and plaf support
1232 and lots of documenting, Lots of Free Swing and metal theme
1233 additions. @code{MetalIconFactory} implementation.
1236 Anthony Green for @code{MIDI} framework, @code{ALSA} and @code{DSSI}
1240 Andrew Haley for @code{Serialization} and @code{URLClassLoader} fixes,
1244 Kim Ho for @code{JFileChooser} implementation.
1247 Andrew John Hughes for @code{Locale} and net fixes, URI RFC2986
1248 updates, @code{Serialization} fixes, @code{Properties} XML support and
1249 generic branch work, VMIntegration guide update.
1252 Bastiaan Huisman for @code{TimeZone} bug fixing.
1255 Andreas Jaeger for mprec updates.
1258 Paul Jenner for better @option{-Werror} support.
1261 Ito Kazumitsu for @code{NetworkInterface} implementation and updates.
1264 Roman Kennke for @code{BoxLayout}, @code{GrayFilter} and
1265 @code{SplitPane}, plus bug fixes all over. Lots of Free Swing work
1266 including styled text.
1269 Simon Kitching for @code{String} cleanups and optimization suggestions.
1272 Michael Koch for configuration fixes, @code{Locale} updates, bug and
1276 Guilhem Lavaux for configuration, thread and channel fixes and Kaffe
1277 integration. JCL native @code{Pointer} updates. Logger bug fixes.
1280 David Lichteblau for JCL support library global/local reference
1284 Aaron Luchko for JDWP updates and documentation fixes.
1287 Ziga Mahkovec for @code{Graphics2D} upgraded to Cairo 0.5 and new regex
1291 Sven de Marothy for BMP imageio support, CSS and @code{TextLayout}
1292 fixes. @code{GtkImage} rewrite, 2D, awt, free swing and date/time fixes and
1293 implementing the Qt4 peers.
1296 Casey Marshall for crypto algorithm fixes, @code{FileChannel} lock,
1297 @code{SystemLogger} and @code{FileHandler} rotate implementations, NIO
1298 @code{FileChannel.map} support, security and policy updates.
1301 Bryce McKinlay for RMI work.
1304 Audrius Meskauskas for lots of Free Corba, RMI and HTML work plus
1305 testing and documenting.
1308 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo for build fixes.
1311 Rainer Orth for build fixes.
1314 Andrew Overholt for @code{File} locking fixes.
1317 Ingo Proetel for @code{Image}, @code{Logger} and @code{URLClassLoader}
1321 Olga Rodimina for @code{MenuSelectionManager} implementation.
1324 Jan Roehrich for @code{BasicTreeUI} and @code{JTree} fixes.
1327 Julian Scheid for documentation updates and gjdoc support.
1330 Christian Schlichtherle for zip fixes and cleanups.
1333 Robert Schuster for documentation updates and beans fixes,
1334 @code{TreeNode} enumerations and @code{ActionCommand} and various
1335 fixes, XML and URL, AWT and Free Swing bug fixes.
1338 Keith Seitz for lots of JDWP work.
1341 Christian Thalinger for 64-bit cleanups, Configuration and VM
1342 interface fixes and @code{CACAO} integration, @code{fdlibm} updates.
1345 Gael Thomas for @code{VMClassLoader} boot packages support suggestions.
1348 Andreas Tobler for Darwin and Solaris testing and fixing, @code{Qt4}
1349 support for Darwin/OS X, @code{Graphics2D} support, @code{gtk+}
1353 Dalibor Topic for better @code{DEBUG} support, build cleanups and
1354 Kaffe integration. @code{Qt4} build infrastructure, @code{SHA1PRNG}
1355 and @code{GdkPixbugDecoder} updates.
1358 Tom Tromey for Eclipse integration, generics work, lots of bug fixes
1359 and gcj integration including coordinating The Big Merge.
1362 Mark Wielaard for bug fixes, packaging and release management,
1363 @code{Clipboard} implementation, system call interrupts and network
1364 timeouts and @code{GdkPixpufDecoder} fixes.
1369 In addition to the above, all of which also contributed time and energy in
1370 testing GCC, we would like to thank the following for their contributions
1375 Michael Abd-El-Malek
1441 Charles-Antoine Gauthier
1606 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug
1607 reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.