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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 bugfixes.
39 Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end.
42 Godmar Back for his Java improvements and encouragement.
45 Scott Bambrough for help porting the Java compiler.
48 Jon Beniston for his Win32 port of Java.
51 Geoff Berry for his Java object serialization work and various patches.
54 Eric Blake for helping to make GCJ and libgcj conform to the
58 Eric Botcazou for fixing middle- and backend bugs left and right.
61 Hans-J. Boehm for his @uref{http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/,,
62 garbage collector}, IA-64 libffi port, and other Java work.
65 Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other
66 miscellaneous clean-ups.
69 Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
70 improvements to our infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
71 front end implementation. Initial implementations of
72 cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++)
73 maintainer. Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of GCJ.
76 Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
79 Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
82 Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
85 Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
88 Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
91 Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
94 Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ.
97 Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
100 Craig Burley for leadership of the Fortran effort.
103 Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++.
106 Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to
107 the string class, hard detective work on the frustrating localization
108 issues, and keeping up with the problem reports.
111 John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
112 previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
115 Stephane Carrez for 68HC11 and 68HC12 ports.
118 Steve Chamberlain for support for the Hitachi SH and H8 processors
119 and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.
122 Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ.
125 John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches.
128 Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
131 Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.
134 Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
137 The @uref{http://www.classpath.org,,GNU Classpath project}
138 for all of their merged runtime code.
141 Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and
142 other random hacking.
145 Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings.
148 Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing.
151 Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
155 Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
158 Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
161 Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
162 that print a copy of their source.
165 Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.
168 Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bugfixes.
171 Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to g++, contributions and
172 maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3,
173 including valarray<>, complex<>, maintaining the numerics library
174 (including that pesky <limits> :-) and keeping up-to-date anything
178 Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99
179 support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime
180 libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and
181 maintaining complex<>, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration
182 architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.
185 Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
188 David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work
189 with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes, and
190 for doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands.
193 Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in
197 Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery,
198 documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional
199 iostream bugfix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
202 Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
205 Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++
206 configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.
209 Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.
212 Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
213 own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
216 Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
219 Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
223 Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
226 Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portugese translation of the GCJ FAQ.
229 Peter Gerwinski for various bugfixes and the Pascal front end.
232 Kaveh Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee and
233 amazing work to make @samp{-W -Wall} useful.
236 John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.
239 Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
242 Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
243 multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
244 support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
245 via the steering committee.
248 Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work.
251 Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug our code.
254 Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
257 Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
258 tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
259 the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
260 Intel 386 and 860 support.
263 Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
264 warnings and assorted bugfixes.
267 Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
270 Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
273 Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
274 the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
278 Kate Hedstrom for staking the g77 folks with an initial testsuite.
281 Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, and ia32 work, loop
282 opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
283 years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
287 Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
288 the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
291 Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
292 of testing an bugfixing, particularly of our configury code.
295 Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
298 Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
301 Christian Iseli for various bugfixes.
304 Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
307 Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
310 Andreas Jaeger for various fixes to the MIPS port
313 Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
314 as lots of bugfixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
318 Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes, her quality improvement
319 sidetracks, and web page maintainance.
322 J. Kean Johnston for OpenServer support.
325 Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
326 Kenner's "``toy'' language".
329 Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation.
332 Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
335 David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
338 Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bugfixes and optimizations of
339 strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.
342 Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
343 and his automatic regression tester.
346 Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with g++ and for a lot of early work
347 in just about every part of libstdc++.
350 Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
354 Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
355 Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
356 Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
357 instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
358 processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
359 strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
360 code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
361 elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
362 head maintainer of GCC for several years.
365 Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and
366 maintaining binary releases for Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++
367 porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32.
370 Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
373 Mark Klein for PA improvements.
376 Thomas Koenig for various bugfixes.
379 Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
382 Benjamin Kosnik for his g++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
385 Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
389 Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
390 entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
391 handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
392 fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
395 Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
396 with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
399 Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
402 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for improvements to demangler and various c++ fixes.
405 Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
406 random work on the Java front end.
409 Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU.
412 Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and
416 Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
419 Weiwen Liu for testing and various bugfixes.
422 Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
426 Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
427 various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of
428 assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges.
431 H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
432 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
435 Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
438 Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
439 various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
442 Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking
443 improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and
444 direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and
445 implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler.
448 Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
451 Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and
452 improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.
455 All of the Mauve project
456 @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/mauve/THANKS?rev=1.2&cvsroot=mauve&only_with_tag=HEAD,,contributors},
460 Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.
463 Adam Megacz for his work on the Win32 port of GCJ.
466 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
467 powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
470 Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
474 David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
475 SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
479 Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
482 Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bugfixes, and turning the
483 entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.
486 Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
487 C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
488 ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.x.
491 Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
494 Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
495 maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
498 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
499 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
500 services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and
501 the backs of envelopes would have been... difficult.
504 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
505 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
509 Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.
512 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements.
515 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
516 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
517 than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
520 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
523 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
526 Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
527 C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
530 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship
531 through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale
532 infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project
533 documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on
534 MT-safe string and shadow headers.
537 Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.
540 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
544 Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
545 engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
548 Geoff Noer for this work on getting cygwin native builds working.
551 David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
552 FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
556 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
557 amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy.
560 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
563 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to our o32
564 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
565 clean-ups and porting work, etc.
568 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
571 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and
572 continued Java maintainership.
575 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
578 Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
579 out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
580 taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
583 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
587 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
588 cleanups in the compiler.
591 Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT.
594 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
598 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
602 Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD
603 port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical
604 threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems.
607 Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
610 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
613 Ken Rose for fixes to our delay slot filling code.
616 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
619 Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits,
620 Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support.
623 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
626 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
629 Roger Sayle for improvements to constant folding and GCC's RTL optimizers
630 as well as for fixing numerous bugs.
633 Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ.
636 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
639 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
642 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
643 work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
647 Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++ -- especially application
648 testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release
649 criteria -- and libstdc++ header file tweaks.
652 Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.
655 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
658 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
659 contributions and RTEMS testing.
662 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
665 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
666 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
667 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
670 Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from
671 the LWG (thereby keeping us in line with updates from the ISO).
674 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
678 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
681 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
684 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
687 Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++
691 Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique.
694 Richard Stallman, for writing the original gcc and launching the GNU project.
697 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
698 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
701 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
704 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
707 Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
710 John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.
713 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, g++ contributions over the years and more
714 recently his vxworks contributions
717 Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bugfixes, and encouragement.
720 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
723 Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking,
727 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU.
730 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
733 Philipp Thomas for random bugfixes throughout the compiler
736 Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD.
739 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
740 language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
743 Michael Tiemann for random bugfixes, the first instruction scheduler,
744 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
745 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
748 Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.
751 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
754 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
755 definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
758 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java
759 contributions and libgcj maintainership.
762 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
766 Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes.
769 Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their
770 associated configure steps.
773 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
776 Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML
780 Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
784 Krister Walfridsson for random bugfixes.
787 Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files
788 work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time
792 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
793 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
794 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
797 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bugfixes.
800 Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ.
803 Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.
806 Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with
810 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
813 Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
816 Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
817 problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
818 reduction and other loop optimizations.
821 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
824 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
827 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
828 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
831 Kevin Zachmann helped ported GCC to the Tahoe.
834 Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.
839 We'd also like to thank the folks who have contributed time and energy in
916 Charles-Antoine Gauthier
1102 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug
1103 reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.