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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 Steve Chamberlain for support for the Hitachi SH and H8 processors
113 and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.
116 Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ.
119 John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches.
122 Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
125 Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.
128 Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
131 The @uref{http://www.classpath.org,,GNU Classpath project}
132 for all of their merged runtime code.
135 Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and
136 other random hacking.
139 Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings.
142 Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing.
145 Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
149 Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
152 Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
155 Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
156 that print a copy of their source.
159 Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.
162 Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes.
165 Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to g++, contributions and
166 maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3,
167 including valarray<>, complex<>, maintaining the numerics library
168 (including that pesky <limits> :-) and keeping up-to-date anything
172 Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99
173 support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime
174 libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and
175 maintaining complex<>, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration
176 architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.
179 Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
182 David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work
183 with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes, and
184 for doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands.
187 Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in
191 Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery,
192 documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional
193 iostream bugfix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
196 Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
199 Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++
200 configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.
203 Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.
206 Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
207 own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
210 Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
213 Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
217 Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
220 Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portugese translation of the GCJ FAQ.
223 Peter Gerwinski for various bugfixes and the Pascal front end.
226 Kaveh Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee and
227 amazing work to make @samp{-W -Wall} useful.
230 John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.
233 Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
236 Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
237 multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
238 support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
239 via the steering committee.
242 Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work.
245 Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug our code.
248 Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
251 Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
252 tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
253 the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
254 Intel 386 and 860 support.
257 Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
258 warnings and assorted bugfixes.
261 Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
264 Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
267 Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
268 the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
272 Kate Hedstrom for staking the g77 folks with an initial testsuite.
275 Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, and ia32 work, loop
276 opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
277 years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
281 Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
282 the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
285 Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
286 of testing an bugfixing, particularly of our configury code.
289 Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
292 Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
295 Christian Iseli for various bugfixes.
298 Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
301 Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
304 Andreas Jaeger for various fixes to the MIPS port
307 Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
308 as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
312 Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes, her quality improvement
313 sidetracks, and web page maintainance.
316 J. Kean Johnston for OpenServer support.
319 Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
320 Kenner's "``toy'' language".
323 Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation.
326 Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
329 David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
332 Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bugfixes and optimizations of
333 strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.
336 Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
337 and his automatic regression tester.
340 Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with g++ and for a lot of early work
341 in just about every part of libstdc++.
344 Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
348 Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
349 Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
350 Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
351 instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
352 processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
353 strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
354 code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
355 elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
356 head maintainer of GCC for several years.
359 Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and
360 maintaining binary releases for Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++
361 porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32.
364 Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
367 Mark Klein for PA improvements.
370 Thomas Koenig for various bugfixes.
373 Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
376 Benjamin Kosnik for his g++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
379 Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
383 Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
384 entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
385 handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
386 fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
389 Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
390 with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
393 Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
396 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for improvements to demangler and various c++ fixes.
399 Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
400 random work on the Java front end.
403 Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU.
406 Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and
410 Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
413 Weiwen Liu for testing and various bugfixes.
416 Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
420 Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
421 various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of
422 assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges.
425 H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
426 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
429 Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
432 Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
433 various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
436 Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking
437 improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and
438 direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and
439 implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler.
442 Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
445 Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and
446 improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.
449 All of the Mauve project
450 @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/mauve/THANKS?rev=1.2&cvsroot=mauve&only_with_tag=HEAD,,contributors},
454 Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.
457 Adam Megacz for his work on the Win32 port of GCJ.
460 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
461 powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
464 Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
468 David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
469 SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
473 Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
476 Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bugfixes, and turning the
477 entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.
480 Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
481 C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
482 ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.x.
485 Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
488 Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
489 maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
492 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
493 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
494 services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and
495 the backs of envelopes would have been... difficult.
498 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
499 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
503 Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.
506 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements.
509 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
510 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
511 than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
514 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
517 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
520 Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
521 C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
524 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship
525 through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale
526 infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project
527 documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on
528 MT-safe string and shadow headers.
531 Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.
534 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
538 Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
539 engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
542 Geoff Noer for this work on getting cygwin native builds working.
545 David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
546 FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
550 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
551 amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy.
554 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
557 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to our o32
558 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
559 clean-ups and porting work, etc.
562 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
565 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and
566 continued Java maintainership.
569 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
572 Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
573 out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
574 taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
577 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
581 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
582 cleanups in the compiler.
585 Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT.
588 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
592 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
596 Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD
597 port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical
598 threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems.
601 Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
604 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
607 Ken Rose for fixes to our delay slot filling code.
610 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
613 Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits,
614 Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support.
617 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
620 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
623 Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ.
626 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
629 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
632 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
633 work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
637 Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++ -- especially application
638 testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release
639 criteria -- and libstdc++ header file tweaks.
642 Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.
645 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
648 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
649 contributions and RTEMS testing.
652 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
655 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
656 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
657 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
660 Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from
661 the LWG (thereby keeping us in line with updates from the ISO).
664 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
668 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
671 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
674 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
677 Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++
681 Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique.
684 Richard Stallman, for writing the original gcc and launching the GNU project.
687 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
688 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
691 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
694 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
697 Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
700 John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.
703 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, g++ contributions over the years and more
704 recently his vxworks contributions
707 Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.
710 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
713 Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking,
717 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU.
720 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
723 Philipp Thomas for random bugfixes throughout the compiler
726 Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD.
729 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
730 language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
733 Michael Tiemann for random bugfixes, the first instruction scheduler,
734 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
735 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
738 Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.
741 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
744 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
745 definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
748 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java
749 contributions and libgcj maintainership.
752 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
756 Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes.
759 Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their
760 associated configure steps.
763 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
766 Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML
770 Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
774 Krister Walfridsson for random bugfixes.
777 Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files
778 work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time
782 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
783 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
784 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
787 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bugfixes.
790 Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ.
793 Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.
796 Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with
800 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
803 Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
806 Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
807 problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
808 reduction and other loop optimizations.
811 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
814 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
817 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
818 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
821 Kevin Zachmann helped ported GCC to the Tahoe.
824 Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.
829 We'd also like to thank the folks who have contributed time and energy in
906 Charles-Antoine Gauthier
1092 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug
1093 reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.