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2 @c 2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006 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 Eric Blake for helping to make GCJ and libgcj conform to the
72 Janne Blomqvist for contributions to gfortran.
75 Segher Boessenkool for various fixes.
78 Hans-J. Boehm for his @uref{http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/,,
79 garbage collector}, IA-64 libffi port, and other Java work.
82 Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other
83 miscellaneous clean-ups.
86 Steven Bosscher for integrating the gfortran front end into GCC and for
87 contributing to the tree-ssa branch.
90 Eric Botcazou for fixing middle- and backend bugs left and right.
93 Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
94 improvements to the infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
95 front end implementation. Initial implementations of
96 cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++)
97 maintainer. Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of GCJ@.
100 Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
103 Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
106 Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
109 Paul Brook for work on the ARM architecture and maintaining gfortran.
112 Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
115 Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
118 Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
121 Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ@.
124 Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
127 Craig Burley for leadership of the G77 Fortran effort.
130 Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++.
133 Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to
134 the C++ strings, streambufs and formatted I/O, hard detective work on
135 the frustrating localization issues, and keeping up with the problem reports.
138 John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
139 previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
142 Stephane Carrez for 68HC11 and 68HC12 ports.
145 Steve Chamberlain for support for the Renesas SH and H8 processors
146 and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.
149 Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ@.
152 John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches.
155 Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
158 Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.
161 Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
164 The @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/,,GNU Classpath project}
165 for all of their merged runtime code.
168 Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and
169 other random hacking.
172 Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings.
175 R. Kelley Cook for making GCC buildable from a read-only directory as
176 well as other miscellaneous build process and documentation clean-ups.
179 Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing.
182 Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
186 Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
189 Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
192 Paul Dale for his work to add uClinux platform support to the
196 Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
197 that print a copy of their source.
200 Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.
203 Bud Davis for work on the G77 and gfortran compilers.
206 Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes.
209 DJ Delorie for the DJGPP port, build and libiberty maintenance,
210 various bug fixes, and the M32C port.
213 Arnaud Desitter for helping to debug gfortran.
216 Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to G++, contributions and
217 maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3,
218 including @code{valarray<>}, @code{complex<>}, maintaining the numerics library
219 (including that pesky @code{<limits>} :-) and keeping up-to-date anything
223 Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99
224 support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime
225 libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and
226 maintaining @code{complex<>}, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration
227 architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.
230 Zdenek Dvorak for a new loop unroller and various fixes.
233 Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
236 David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work
237 with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes,
238 doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands, and for
239 ensuring GCC properly keeps working on AIX@.
242 Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in
246 Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery,
247 documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional
248 iostream bug fix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
251 Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
254 Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++
255 configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.
258 Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.
261 Christian Ehrhardt for dealing with bug reports.
264 Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
265 own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
268 Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
271 Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
275 Christopher Faylor for his work on the Cygwin port and for caring and
276 feeding the gcc.gnu.org box and saving its users tons of spam.
279 Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
282 Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portuguese translation of the GCJ FAQ@.
285 Peter Gerwinski for various bug fixes and the Pascal front end.
288 Kaveh R.@: Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee, amazing
289 work to make @samp{-W -Wall -W* -Werror} useful, and continuously
290 testing GCC on a plethora of platforms. Kaveh extends his gratitude to
291 the @uref{http://www.caip.rutgers.edu,,CAIP Center} at Rutgers
292 University for providing him with computing resources to work on Free
293 Software since the late 1980s.
296 John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.
299 Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
302 Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
303 multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
304 support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
305 via the steering committee.
308 Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work.
311 Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug Java code.
314 Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
317 Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
318 tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
319 the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
320 Intel 386 and 860 support.
323 Mostafa Hagog for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS) and post reload GCSE@.
326 Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
327 warnings and assorted bug fixes.
330 Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
333 Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
336 Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
337 the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
341 Dara Hazeghi for wading through myriads of target-specific bug reports.
344 Kate Hedstrom for staking the G77 folks with an initial testsuite.
347 Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, ia32, and ia64 work, loop
348 opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
349 years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
353 Aldy Hernandez for working on the PowerPC port, SIMD support, and
357 Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
358 the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
361 Kazu Hirata for caring and feeding the Renesas H8/300 port and various fixes.
364 Katherine Holcomb for work on gfortran.
367 Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
368 of testing and bug fixing, particularly of GCC configury code.
371 Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
374 Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
377 Falk Hueffner for working on C and optimization bug reports.
380 Bernardo Innocenti for his m68k work, including merging of
381 ColdFire improvements and uClinux support.
384 Christian Iseli for various bug fixes.
387 Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
390 Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
393 Andreas Jaeger for testing and benchmarking of GCC and various bug fixes.
396 Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
397 as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
401 Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes, her quality improvement
402 sidetracks, and web page maintenance.
405 Kean Johnston for SCO OpenServer support and various fixes.
408 Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
409 Kenner's ``toy'' language.
412 Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation.
415 Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
418 Steven G. Kargl for work on gfortran.
421 David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
424 Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bug fixes and optimizations of
425 strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.
428 Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
429 and his automatic regression tester.
432 Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with G++ and for a lot of early work
433 in just about every part of libstdc++.
436 Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
440 Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
441 Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
442 Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
443 instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
444 processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
445 strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
446 code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
447 elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
448 head maintainer of GCC for several years.
451 Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and
452 maintaining binary releases for Microsoft Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++
453 porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32.
456 Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
459 Mark Klein for PA improvements.
462 Thomas Koenig for various bug fixes.
465 Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
468 Benjamin Kosnik for his G++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
471 Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
475 Asher Langton and Mike Kumbera for contributing Cray pointer support
476 to gfortran, and for other gfortran improvements.
479 Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
480 entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
481 handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
482 fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
485 Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
486 with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
489 Victor Leikehman for work on gfortran.
492 Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
495 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for C++ improvements including template as template
496 parameter support, and many C++ fixes.
499 Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
500 random work on the Java front end.
503 Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU@.
506 Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and
510 Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
513 Weiwen Liu for testing and various bug fixes.
516 Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
520 Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
521 various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of
522 assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges.
525 H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
526 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
529 Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
532 Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
533 various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
536 Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking
537 improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and
538 direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and
539 implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler.
542 Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
545 Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and
546 improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.
549 All of the Mauve project
550 @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/mauve/THANKS?rev=1.2&cvsroot=mauve&only_with_tag=HEAD,,contributors},
554 Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.
557 Adam Megacz for his work on the Microsoft Windows port of GCJ@.
560 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
561 powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
564 Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
568 David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
569 SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
573 Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
576 Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bug fixes, and turning the
577 entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.
580 Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
581 C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
582 ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.x.
585 Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
588 Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
589 maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
592 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
593 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
594 services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and
595 the backs of envelopes would have been@dots{} difficult.
598 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
599 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
603 Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.
606 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements, and for the initial
610 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
611 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
612 than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
615 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
618 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
621 Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
622 C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
625 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship
626 through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale
627 infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project
628 documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on
629 MT-safe string and shadow headers.
632 Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.
635 Nathanael Nerode for cleaning up the configuration/build process.
638 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
642 Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
643 engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
646 Geoff Noer for his work on getting cygwin native builds working.
649 Diego Novillo for his SPEC performance tracking web pages and assorted
650 fixes in the middle end and various back ends.
653 David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
654 FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
658 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
659 amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy.
662 Stefan Olsson for work on mt_alloc.
665 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
668 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to GCC's o32
669 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
670 clean-ups and porting work, etc.
673 Hartmut Penner for work on the s390 port.
676 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
679 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and
680 continued Java maintainership.
683 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
686 Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
687 out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
688 taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
691 Andrew Pinski for processing bug reports by the dozen.
694 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
698 Jerry Quinn for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O@.
701 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
702 cleanups in the compiler.
705 Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT@.
708 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
712 Volker Reichelt for keeping up with the problem reports.
715 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
719 Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD
720 port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical
721 threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems,
722 as well as keeping GCC properly working on FreeBSD and continuous testing.
725 Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
728 Ola R@"onnerup for work on mt_alloc.
731 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
734 David Ronis inspired and encouraged Craig to rewrite the G77
735 documentation in texinfo format by contributing a first pass at a
736 translation of the old @file{g77-0.5.16/f/DOC} file.
739 Ken Rose for fixes to GCC's delay slot filling code.
742 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
745 P@'etur Run@'olfsson for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O and
746 large file support in C++ filebuf.
749 Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits,
750 Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support.
753 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
756 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
759 Roger Sayle for improvements to constant folding and GCC's RTL optimizers
760 as well as for fixing numerous bugs.
763 Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ@.
766 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
769 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
772 Tobias Schl@"uter for work on gfortran.
775 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
776 work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
780 Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++---especially application
781 testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release
782 criteria---and libstdc++ header file tweaks.
785 Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.
788 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
791 Lars Segerlund for work on gfortran.
794 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
795 contributions and RTEMS testing.
798 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
801 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
802 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
803 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
806 Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from
807 the LWG (thereby keeping GCC in line with updates from the ISO)@.
810 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
814 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
817 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
820 Danny Smith for his major efforts on the Mingw (and Cygwin) ports.
823 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
826 Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++
827 testsuite entries. Also for providing the patch to G77 to add
828 rudimentary support for @code{INTEGER*1}, @code{INTEGER*2}, and
832 Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique.
835 Richard Stallman, for writing the original GCC and launching the GNU project.
838 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
839 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
842 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
845 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
848 Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
851 John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.
854 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, G++ contributions over the years and more
855 recently his vxworks contributions
858 Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.
861 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
864 Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking,
868 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU@.
871 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
874 Philipp Thomas for random bug fixes throughout the compiler
877 Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD@.
880 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
881 language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
884 Michael Tiemann for random bug fixes, the first instruction scheduler,
885 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
886 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
889 Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.
892 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
895 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
896 definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
899 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java
900 contributions and libgcj maintainership.
903 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
907 Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes.
910 Andy Vaught for the design and initial implementation of the gfortran
914 Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their
915 associated configure steps.
918 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
921 Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML
925 Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
929 Krister Walfridsson for random bug fixes.
932 Feng Wang for contributions to gfortran.
935 Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files
936 work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time
940 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
941 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
942 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
945 Ulrich Weigand for work on the s390 port.
948 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bug fixes.
951 Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ@.
954 Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.
957 Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with
961 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
964 Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
967 Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
968 problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
969 reduction and other loop optimizations.
972 Paul Woegerer and Tal Agmon for the CRX port.
975 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
978 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
981 Canqun Yang for work on gfortran.
984 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
985 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
988 Kevin Zachmann helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
991 Ayal Zaks for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS).
994 Xiaoqiang Zhang for work on gfortran.
997 Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.
1001 The following people are recognized for their contributions to GNAT,
1002 the Ada front end of GCC:
1148 The following people are recognized for their contributions of new
1149 features, bug reports, testing and integration of classpath/libgcj for
1153 Lillian Angel for @code{JTree} implementation and lots Free Swing
1154 additions and bugfixes.
1157 Wolfgang Baer for @code{GapContent} bugfixes.
1160 Anthony Balkissoon for @code{JList}, Free Swing 1.5 updates and mouse event
1161 fixes, lots of Free Swing work including @code{JTable} editing.
1164 Stuart Ballard for RMI constant fixes.
1167 Goffredo Baroncelli for @code{HTTPURLConnection} fixes.
1170 Gary Benson for @code{MessageFormat} fixes.
1173 Daniel Bonniot for @code{Serialization} fixes.
1176 Chris Burdess for lots of gnu.xml and http protocol fixes, @code{StAX}
1177 and @code{DOM xml:id} support.
1180 Ka-Hing Cheung for @code{TreePath} and @code{TreeSelection} fixes.
1183 Archie Cobbs for build fixes, VM interface updates,
1184 @code{URLClassLoader} updates.
1187 Kelley Cook for build fixes.
1190 Martin Cordova for Suggestions for better @code{SocketTimeoutException}.
1193 David Daney for @code{BitSet} bugfixes, @code{HttpURLConnection}
1194 rewrite and improvements.
1197 Thomas Fitzsimmons for lots of upgrades to the gtk+ AWT and Cairo 2D
1198 support. Lots of imageio framework additions, lots of AWT and Free
1202 Jeroen Frijters for @code{ClassLoader} and nio cleanups, serialization fixes,
1203 better @code{Proxy} support, bugfixes and IKVM integration.
1206 Santiago Gala for @code{AccessControlContext} fixes.
1209 Nicolas Geoffray for @code{VMClassLoader} and @code{AccessController}
1213 David Gilbert for @code{basic} and @code{metal} icon and plaf support
1214 and lots of documenting, Lots of Free Swing and metal theme
1215 additions. @code{MetalIconFactory} implementation.
1218 Anthony Green for @code{MIDI} framework, @code{ALSA} and @code{DSSI}
1222 Andrew Haley for @code{Serialization} and @code{URLClassLoader} fixes,
1226 Kim Ho for @code{JFileChooser} implementation.
1229 Andrew John Hughes for @code{Locale} and net fixes, URI RFC2986
1230 updates, @code{Serialization} fixes, @code{Properties} XML support and
1231 generic branch work, VMIntegration guide update.
1234 Bastiaan Huisman for @code{TimeZone} bugfixing.
1237 Andreas Jaeger for mprec updates.
1240 Paul Jenner for better @option{-Werror} support.
1243 Ito Kazumitsu for @code{NetworkInterface} implementation and updates.
1246 Roman Kennke for @code{BoxLayout}, @code{GrayFilter} and
1247 @code{SplitPane}, plus bugfixes all over. Lots of Free Swing work
1248 including styled text.
1251 Simon Kitching for @code{String} cleanups and optimization suggestions.
1254 Michael Koch for configuration fixes, @code{Locale} updates, bug and
1258 Guilhem Lavaux for configuration, thread and channel fixes and Kaffe
1259 integration. JCL native @code{Pointer} updates. Logger bugfixes.
1262 David Lichteblau for JCL support library global/local reference
1266 Aaron Luchko for JDWP updates and documentation fixes.
1269 Ziga Mahkovec for @code{Graphics2D} upgraded to Cairo 0.5 and new regex
1273 Sven de Marothy for BMP imageio support, CSS and @code{TextLayout}
1274 fixes. @code{GtkImage} rewrite, 2D, awt, free swing and date/time fixes and
1275 implementing the Qt4 peers.
1278 Casey Marshall for crypto algorithm fixes, @code{FileChannel} lock,
1279 @code{SystemLogger} and @code{FileHandler} rotate implementations, NIO
1280 @code{FileChannel.map} support, security and policy updates.
1283 Bryce McKinlay for RMI work.
1286 Audrius Meskauskas for lots of Free Corba, RMI and HTML work plus
1287 testing and documenting.
1290 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo for build fixes.
1293 Rainer Orth for build fixes.
1296 Andrew Overholt for @code{File} locking fixes.
1299 Ingo Proetel for @code{Image}, @code{Logger} and @code{URLClassLoader}
1303 Olga Rodimina for @code{MenuSelectionManager} implemenation.
1306 Jan Roehrich for @code{BasicTreeUI} and @code{JTree} fixes.
1309 Julian Scheid for documentation updates and gjdoc support.
1312 Christian Schlichtherle for zip fixes and cleanups.
1315 Robert Schuster for documentation updates and beans fixes,
1316 @code{TreeNode} enumerations and @code{ActionCommand} and various
1317 fixes, XML and URL, AWT and Free Swing bugfixes.
1320 Keith Seitz for lots of JDWP work.
1323 Christian Thalinger for 64-bit cleanups, Configuration and VM
1324 interface fixes and @code{CACAO} integration, @code{fdlibm} updates.
1327 Gael Thomas for @code{VMClassLoader} boot packages support sugestions.
1330 Andreas Tobler for Darwin and Solaris testing and fixing, @code{Qt4}
1331 support for Darwin/OS X, @code{Graphics2D} support, @code{gtk+}
1335 Dalibor Topic for better @code{DEBUG} support, build cleanups and
1336 Kaffe integration. @code{Qt4} build infrastructure, @code{SHA1PRNG}
1337 and @code{GdkPixbugDecoder} updates.
1340 Tom Tromey for Eclipse integration, generics work, lots of bugfixes
1341 and gcj integration including coordinating The Big Merge.
1344 Mark Wielaard for bugfixes, packaging and release management,
1345 @code{Clipboard} implementation, system call interrupts and network
1346 timeouts and @code{GdkPixpufDecoder} fixes.
1351 In addition to the above, all of which also contributed time and energy in
1352 testing GCC, we would like to thank the following for their contributions
1357 Michael Abd-El-Malek
1423 Charles-Antoine Gauthier
1588 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug
1589 reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.