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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} if you have been left out
14 or some of your contributions are not listed. Please keep this list in
17 Some projects operating under the GCC project maintain their own list
18 of contributors, such as
19 @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/libstdc++/,the C++ library}.
24 Analog Devices helped implement the support for complex data types
28 John David Anglin for improvements to libstdc++-v3 and the HP-UX port.
31 James van Artsdalen wrote the code that makes efficient use of
32 the Intel 80387 register stack.
35 Alasdair Baird for various bugfixes.
38 Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end.
41 Godmar Back for his Java improvements and encouragement.
44 Scott Bambrough for help porting the Java compiler.
47 Jon Beniston for his Win32 port of Java.
50 Geoff Berry for his Java object serialization work and various patches.
53 Eric Blake for helping to make gcj and libgcj conform to the
57 Hans-J. Boehm for his @uref{http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/,,
58 garbage collector}, IA-64 libffi port, and other Java work.
61 Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other
62 miscellaneous clean-ups.
65 Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
66 improvements to our infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
67 front end implementation. Initial implementations of
68 cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++)
69 maintainer. Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of gcj.
72 Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
75 Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
78 Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
81 Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
84 Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
87 Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
90 Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ.
93 Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
96 Craig Burley for leadership of the Fortran effort.
99 Paolo Carlini for his work on libstdc++-v3.
102 John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
103 previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
106 Steve Chamberlain for support for the Hitachi SH and H8 processors
107 and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.
110 Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ.
113 John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches.
116 Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
119 Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.
122 Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
125 The @uref{http://www.classpath.org,,GNU Classpath project}
126 for all of their merged runtime code.
129 Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and other random
133 Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing.
136 Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
140 Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
143 Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
146 Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
147 that print a copy of their source.
150 Mo DeJong for gcj and libgcj bug fixes.
153 Ulrich Drepper for his work on the C++ runtime libraries, glibc,
154 testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99 support, CFG dumping support, etc.
157 Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
160 David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee,
161 ongoing work with the RS6000/PowerPC port, and help cleaning up Haifa
165 Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
168 Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements.
171 Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
172 own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
175 Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
178 Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
182 Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
185 Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portugese translation of the GCJ FAQ.
188 Peter Gerwinski for various bugfixes and the Pascal front end.
191 Kaveh Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee and
192 amazing work to make @samp{-W -Wall} useful.
195 John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.
198 Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
201 Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
202 multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
203 support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
204 via the steering committee.
207 Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work.
210 Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug our code.
213 Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
216 Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
217 tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
218 the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
219 Intel 386 and 860 support.
222 Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
223 warnings and assorted bugfixes.
226 Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
229 Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
232 Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
233 the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
237 Kate Hedstrom for staking the g77 folks with an initial testsuite.
240 Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, and ia32 work, loop
241 opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
242 years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
246 Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
247 the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
250 Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
251 of testing an bugfixing, particularly of our configury code.
254 Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
257 Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
260 Christian Iseli for various bugfixes.
263 Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
266 Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
269 Andreas Jaeger for various fixes to the MIPS port
272 Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
273 as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
277 Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes and for her quality improvement
281 J. Kean Johnston for OpenServer support.
284 Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
285 Kenner's "``toy'' language".
288 Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
291 David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
294 Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
295 and his automatic regression tester.
298 Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with g++.
301 Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
305 Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
306 Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
307 Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
308 instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
309 processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
310 strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
311 code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
312 elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
313 head maintainer of GCC for several years.
316 Mumit Khan for various contributions to the cygwin and mingw32 ports and
317 maintaining binary releases for Windows hosts.
320 Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
323 Mark Klein for PA improvements.
326 Thomas Koenig for various bugfixes.
329 Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
332 Benjamin Kosnik for his g++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
335 Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
339 Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
340 entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
341 handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
342 fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
345 Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
346 with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
349 Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
352 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for improvements to demangler and various c++ fixes.
355 Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
356 random work on the Java front end.
359 Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU.
362 Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and
366 Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
369 Weiwen Liu for testing and various bugfixes.
372 Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
376 Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
377 and various C++ improvements including namespace support.
380 H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
381 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
384 Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
387 Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
388 various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
391 Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking
392 improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and
393 direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and
394 implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler.
397 Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
400 All of the Mauve project
401 @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/mauve/THANKS?rev=1.2&cvsroot=mauve&only_with_tag=HEAD,,contributors},
405 Bryce McKinlay for numerous gcj and libgcj fixes and improvements.
408 Adam Megacz for his work on the Win32 port of GCJ.
411 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
412 powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
415 Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
419 David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
420 SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
424 Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
427 Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
428 C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
429 ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.x.
432 Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
435 Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
436 maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
439 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
440 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
441 services, ftp services, etc etc.
444 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
445 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
449 Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.
452 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements.
455 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
456 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
457 than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
460 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
463 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
466 Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
467 C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
470 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3.
473 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
477 Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
478 engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
481 Geoff Noer for this work on getting cygwin native builds working.
484 David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
485 FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
489 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
490 amazing testing work.
493 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
496 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to our o32
497 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
498 clean-ups and porting work, etc.
501 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
504 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and
505 continued Java maintainership.
508 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
511 Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
512 out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
513 taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
516 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
520 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
521 cleanups in the compiler.
524 Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT.
527 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
531 Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions and maintenance of libstdc++-v3,
532 including valarray implementation and limits support.
535 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
539 Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 and the FreeBSD port.
542 Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
545 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
548 Ken Rose for fixes to our delay slot filling code.
551 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
554 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
557 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
560 Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ.
563 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
566 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
569 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
570 work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
574 Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.
577 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
580 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
581 contributions and RTEMS testing.
584 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
587 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
588 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
589 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
592 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
596 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
599 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
602 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
605 Scott Snyder for various fixes.
608 Richard Stallman, for writing the original gcc and launching the GNU project.
611 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
612 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
615 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
618 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
621 Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
624 John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.
627 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, g++ contributions over the years and more
628 recently his vxworks contributions
631 Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.
634 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
637 Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking,
641 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU.
644 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
647 Philipp Thomas for random bugfixes throughout the compiler
650 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
651 language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
654 Michael Tiemann for random bugfixes, the first instruction scheduler,
655 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
656 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
659 Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.
662 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
665 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
666 definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
669 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java
670 contributions and libgcj maintainership.
673 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
677 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
680 Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
684 Krister Walfridsson for random bugfixes.
687 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
688 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
689 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
692 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bugfixes.
695 Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ.
698 Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.
701 Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with
705 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
708 Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
711 Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
712 problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
713 reduction and other loop optimizations.
716 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
719 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
722 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
723 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
726 Kevin Zachmann helped ported GCC to the Tahoe.
729 Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.
734 We'd also like to thank the folks who have contributed time and energy in
805 Charles-Antoine Gauthier
982 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug
983 reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.