1 @c Copyright (C) 1988,1989,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001
2 @c Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 @c This is part of the GCC manual.
4 @c For copying conditions, see the file gcc.texi.
6 The GCC project would like to thank its many contributors. Without them the
7 project would not have been nearly as successful as it has been. Any omissions
8 in this list are accidental. Feel free to contact
9 @email{law@@redhat.com} if you have been left out
10 or some of your contributions are not listed. Please keep this list in
13 Some projects operating under the GCC project maintain their own list
14 of contributors, such as
15 @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/libstdc++/,the C++ library}.
20 Analog Devices helped implement the support for complex data types
24 James van Artsdalen wrote the code that makes efficient use of
25 the Intel 80387 register stack.
28 Alasdair Baird for various bugfixes.
31 Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end.
34 Neil Booth for various work on cpplib.
37 Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
38 improvements to our infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
39 and Java front end implementations. Initial implementations of
40 cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library
44 Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
47 Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
50 Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
53 Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
56 Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
59 Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
62 Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
65 Craig Burley for leadership of the Fortran effort.
68 John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
69 previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
72 Steve Chamberlain wrote the support for the Hitachi SH and H8 processors
73 and the PicoJava processor.
76 Scott Christley for his ObjC contributions.
79 Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
82 Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and other random
86 Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing.
89 Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
93 Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
96 Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
99 Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
100 that print a copy of their source.
103 Ulrich Drepper for his work on the C++ runtime libraries, glibc,
104 testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99 support, CFG dumping support, etc.
107 Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
110 David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee,
111 ongoing work with the RS6000/PowerPC port, and help cleaning up Haifa
115 Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
118 Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements.
121 Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
122 own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
125 Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
128 Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
132 Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
135 Peter Gerwinski for various bugfixes and the Pascal front end.
138 Kaveh Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee and
139 amazing work to make @samp{-W -Wall} useful.
142 Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
145 Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
146 multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
147 support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
148 via the steering committee.
151 Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work.
154 Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
157 Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
158 tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
159 the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
160 Intel 386 and 860 support.
163 Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
164 warnings and assorted bugfixes.
167 Andrew Haley for his Java work.
170 Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
173 Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
174 the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
178 Kate Hedstrom for staking the g77 folks with an initial testsuite.
181 Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC and alpha work, loop opts, and
182 generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for years, flow
183 rewrite and lots of stuff I've forgotten.
186 Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
187 the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
190 Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
191 of testing an bugfixing, particularly of our configury code.
194 Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
197 Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
200 Christian Iseli for various bugfixes.
203 Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
206 Lee Iverson for random fixes and mips testing.
209 Andreas Jaeger for various fixes to the MIPS port
212 Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations.
215 J. Kean Johnston for OpenServer support.
218 Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
221 David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
224 Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for Linux.
227 Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with g++.
230 Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
234 Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
235 Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
236 Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
237 instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
238 processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
239 strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
240 code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
241 elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
242 head maintainer of GCC for several years.
245 Mumit Khan for various contributions to the cygwin and mingw32 ports and
246 maintaining binary releases for Windows hosts.
249 Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
252 Mark Klein for PA improvements.
255 Thomas Koenig for various bugfixes.
258 Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
261 Benjamin Kosnik for his g++ work.
264 Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
268 Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
269 entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
270 handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
271 fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
274 Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
275 with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
278 Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
281 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for improvements to demangler and various c++ fixes.
284 Warren Levy major work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and random
285 work on the Java front end.
288 Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the Mips cpu.
291 Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
294 Weiwen Liu for testing and various bugfixes.
297 Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
301 Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
302 and various C++ improvements including namespace support.
305 H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
306 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the Linux ports working.
309 Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
312 Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
313 various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
316 Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC
317 hacking improvements to compile-time performance and overall knowledge
318 and direction in the area of instruction scheduling.
321 Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
324 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS powerpc, haifa,
325 ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
328 Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
332 David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
333 SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
337 Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
340 Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
341 C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
342 ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.0.
345 Alan Modra for various Linux bits and testing.
348 Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
349 maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
352 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
353 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
354 services, ftp services, etc etc.
357 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
358 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC Linux
362 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements.
365 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
366 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
367 than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
370 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
373 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
376 Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
377 C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
380 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3.
383 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
387 Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
388 engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
391 Geoff Noer for this work on getting cygwin native builds working.
394 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
395 amazing testing work.
398 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
401 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to our o32
402 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, etc.
405 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
408 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for his Java work.
411 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
414 Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
415 out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
416 taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
419 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the ObjC front end and runtime libraries.
422 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, mips ports and various
423 cleanups in the compiler.
426 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
429 Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions and maintenance of libstdc++-v3,
430 including valarray implementation and limits support.
433 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
437 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
440 Ken Rose for fixes to our delay slot filling code.
443 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
446 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
449 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
452 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
455 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
458 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
459 work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
463 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
466 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
467 contributions and RTEMS testing.
470 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
473 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
474 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
475 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
478 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
482 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
485 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
488 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
491 Scott Snyder for various fixes.
494 Richard Stallman, for writing the original gcc and launching the GNU project.
497 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
498 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
501 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
504 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
507 Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
510 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, g++ contributions over the years and more
511 recently his vxworks contributions
514 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
517 Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking,
521 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper cpu.
524 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for Linux.
527 Philipp Thomas for random bugfixes throughout the compiler
530 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
534 Michael Tiemann for random bugfixes the first instruction scheduler,
535 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, sparc and M88k
536 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
539 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
542 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
543 definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
546 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and his Java work.
549 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
553 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
556 Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
560 Krister Walfridsson for random bugfixes.
563 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
564 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
565 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
568 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bugfixes.
571 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
574 Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
575 problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
576 reduction and other loop optimizations.
579 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
582 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
585 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
586 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
589 Kevin Zachmann helped ported GCC to the Tahoe.
594 We'd also like to thank the folks who have contributed time and energy in
704 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug
705 reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.