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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 Hans-J. Boehm for his @uref{http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/,,
59 garbage collector}, IA-64 libffi port, and other Java work.
62 Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other
63 miscellaneous clean-ups.
66 Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
67 improvements to our infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
68 front end implementation. Initial implementations of
69 cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++)
70 maintainer. Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of GCJ.
73 Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
76 Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
79 Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
82 Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
85 Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
88 Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
91 Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ.
94 Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
97 Craig Burley for leadership of the Fortran effort.
100 Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++.
103 Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to
104 the string class, hard detective work on the frustrating localization
105 issues, and keeping up with the problem reports.
108 John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
109 previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
112 Stephane Carrez for 68HC11 and 68HC12 ports.
115 Steve Chamberlain for support for the Hitachi SH and H8 processors
116 and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.
119 Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ.
122 John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches.
125 Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
128 Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.
131 Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
134 The @uref{http://www.classpath.org,,GNU Classpath project}
135 for all of their merged runtime code.
138 Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and
139 other random hacking.
142 Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings.
145 Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing.
148 Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
152 Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
155 Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
158 Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
159 that print a copy of their source.
162 Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.
165 Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes.
168 Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to g++, contributions and
169 maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3,
170 including valarray<>, complex<>, maintaining the numerics library
171 (including that pesky <limits> :-) and keeping up-to-date anything
175 Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99
176 support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime
177 libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and
178 maintaining complex<>, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration
179 architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.
182 Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
185 David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work
186 with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes, and
187 for doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands.
190 Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in
194 Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery,
195 documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional
196 iostream bugfix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
199 Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
202 Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++
203 configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.
206 Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.
209 Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
210 own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
213 Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
216 Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
220 Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
223 Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portugese translation of the GCJ FAQ.
226 Peter Gerwinski for various bugfixes and the Pascal front end.
229 Kaveh Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee and
230 amazing work to make @samp{-W -Wall} useful.
233 John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.
236 Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
239 Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
240 multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
241 support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
242 via the steering committee.
245 Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work.
248 Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug our code.
251 Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
254 Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
255 tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
256 the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
257 Intel 386 and 860 support.
260 Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
261 warnings and assorted bugfixes.
264 Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
267 Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
270 Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
271 the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
275 Kate Hedstrom for staking the g77 folks with an initial testsuite.
278 Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, and ia32 work, loop
279 opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
280 years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
284 Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
285 the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
288 Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
289 of testing an bugfixing, particularly of our configury code.
292 Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
295 Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
298 Christian Iseli for various bugfixes.
301 Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
304 Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
307 Andreas Jaeger for various fixes to the MIPS port
310 Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
311 as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
315 Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes, her quality improvement
316 sidetracks, and web page maintainance.
319 J. Kean Johnston for OpenServer support.
322 Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
323 Kenner's "``toy'' language".
326 Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation.
329 Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
332 David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
335 Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bugfixes and optimizations of
336 strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.
339 Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
340 and his automatic regression tester.
343 Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with g++ and for a lot of early work
344 in just about every part of libstdc++.
347 Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
351 Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
352 Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
353 Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
354 instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
355 processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
356 strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
357 code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
358 elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
359 head maintainer of GCC for several years.
362 Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and
363 maintaining binary releases for Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++
364 porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32.
367 Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
370 Mark Klein for PA improvements.
373 Thomas Koenig for various bugfixes.
376 Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
379 Benjamin Kosnik for his g++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
382 Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
386 Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
387 entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
388 handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
389 fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
392 Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
393 with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
396 Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
399 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for improvements to demangler and various c++ fixes.
402 Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
403 random work on the Java front end.
406 Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU.
409 Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and
413 Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
416 Weiwen Liu for testing and various bugfixes.
419 Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
423 Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
424 various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of
425 assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges.
428 H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
429 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
432 Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
435 Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
436 various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
439 Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking
440 improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and
441 direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and
442 implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler.
445 Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
448 Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and
449 improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.
452 All of the Mauve project
453 @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/mauve/THANKS?rev=1.2&cvsroot=mauve&only_with_tag=HEAD,,contributors},
457 Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.
460 Adam Megacz for his work on the Win32 port of GCJ.
463 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
464 powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
467 Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
471 David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
472 SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
476 Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
479 Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bugfixes, and turning the
480 entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.
483 Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
484 C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
485 ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.x.
488 Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
491 Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
492 maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
495 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
496 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
497 services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and
498 the backs of envelopes would have been... difficult.
501 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
502 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
506 Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.
509 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements.
512 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
513 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
514 than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
517 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
520 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
523 Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
524 C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
527 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship
528 through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale
529 infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project
530 documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on
531 MT-safe string and shadow headers.
534 Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.
537 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
541 Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
542 engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
545 Geoff Noer for this work on getting cygwin native builds working.
548 David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
549 FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
553 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
554 amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy.
557 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
560 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to our o32
561 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
562 clean-ups and porting work, etc.
565 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
568 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and
569 continued Java maintainership.
572 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
575 Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
576 out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
577 taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
580 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
584 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
585 cleanups in the compiler.
588 Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT.
591 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
595 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
599 Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD
600 port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical
601 threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems.
604 Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
607 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
610 Ken Rose for fixes to our delay slot filling code.
613 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
616 Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits,
617 Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support.
620 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
623 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
626 Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ.
629 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
632 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
635 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
636 work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
640 Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++ -- especially application
641 testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release
642 criteria -- and libstdc++ header file tweaks.
645 Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.
648 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
651 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
652 contributions and RTEMS testing.
655 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
658 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
659 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
660 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
663 Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from
664 the LWG (thereby keeping us in line with updates from the ISO).
667 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
671 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
674 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
677 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
680 Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++
684 Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique.
687 Richard Stallman, for writing the original gcc and launching the GNU project.
690 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
691 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
694 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
697 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
700 Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
703 John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.
706 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, g++ contributions over the years and more
707 recently his vxworks contributions
710 Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.
713 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
716 Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking,
720 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU.
723 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
726 Philipp Thomas for random bugfixes throughout the compiler
729 Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD.
732 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
733 language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
736 Michael Tiemann for random bugfixes, the first instruction scheduler,
737 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
738 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
741 Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.
744 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
747 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
748 definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
751 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java
752 contributions and libgcj maintainership.
755 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
759 Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes.
762 Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their
763 associated configure steps.
766 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
769 Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML
773 Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
777 Krister Walfridsson for random bugfixes.
780 Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files
781 work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time
785 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
786 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
787 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
790 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bugfixes.
793 Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ.
796 Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.
799 Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with
803 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
806 Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
809 Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
810 problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
811 reduction and other loop optimizations.
814 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
817 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
820 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
821 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
824 Kevin Zachmann helped ported GCC to the Tahoe.
827 Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.
832 We'd also like to thank the folks who have contributed time and energy in
909 Charles-Antoine Gauthier
1095 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug
1096 reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.