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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 bug fixes.
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 Wolfgang Bangerth for processing tons of bug reports.
51 Jon Beniston for his Windows port of Java.
54 Daniel Berlin for better DWARF2 support, faster/better optimizations,
55 improved alias analysis, plus migrating us to Bugzilla.
58 Geoff Berry for his Java object serialization work and various patches.
61 Eric Blake for helping to make GCJ and libgcj conform to the
65 Segher Boessenkool for various fixes.
68 Hans-J. Boehm for his @uref{http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/,,
69 garbage collector}, IA-64 libffi port, and other Java work.
72 Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other
73 miscellaneous clean-ups.
76 Eric Botcazou for fixing middle- and backend bugs left and right.
79 Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
80 improvements to our infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
81 front end implementation. Initial implementations of
82 cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++)
83 maintainer. Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of GCJ.
86 Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
89 Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
92 Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
95 Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
98 Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
101 Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
104 Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ.
107 Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
110 Craig Burley for leadership of the Fortran effort.
113 Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++.
116 Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to
117 the string class, hard detective work on the frustrating localization
118 issues, and keeping up with the problem reports.
121 John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
122 previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
125 Stephane Carrez for 68HC11 and 68HC12 ports.
128 Steve Chamberlain for support for the Renesas SH and H8 processors
129 and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.
132 Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ.
135 John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches.
138 Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
141 Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.
144 Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
147 The @uref{http://www.classpath.org,,GNU Classpath project}
148 for all of their merged runtime code.
151 Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and
152 other random hacking.
155 Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings.
158 Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing.
161 Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
165 Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
168 Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
171 Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
172 that print a copy of their source.
175 Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.
178 Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes.
181 DJ Delorie for the DJGPP port, build and libiberty maintenance, and
185 Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to g++, contributions and
186 maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3,
187 including valarray<>, complex<>, maintaining the numerics library
188 (including that pesky <limits> :-) and keeping up-to-date anything
192 Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99
193 support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime
194 libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and
195 maintaining complex<>, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration
196 architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.
199 Zdenek Dvorak for a new loop unroller and various fixes.
202 Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
205 David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work
206 with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes,
207 doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands, and for
208 ensuring GCC properly keeps working on AIX.
211 Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in
215 Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery,
216 documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional
217 iostream bug fix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
220 Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
223 Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++
224 configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.
227 Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.
230 Christian Ehrhardt for dealing with bug reports.
233 Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
234 own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
237 Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
240 Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
244 Christopher Faylor for his work on the Cygwin port and for caring and
245 feeding the gcc.gnu.org box and saving its users tons of spam.
248 Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
251 Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portugese translation of the GCJ FAQ.
254 Peter Gerwinski for various bug fixes and the Pascal front end.
257 Kaveh Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee,
258 amazing work to make @samp{-W -Wall} useful, and continously testing
259 GCC on a plethora of platforms.
262 John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.
265 Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
268 Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
269 multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
270 support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
271 via the steering committee.
274 Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work.
277 Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug our code.
280 Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
283 Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
284 tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
285 the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
286 Intel 386 and 860 support.
289 Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
290 warnings and assorted bug fixes.
293 Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
296 Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
299 Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
300 the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
304 Kate Hedstrom for staking the g77 folks with an initial testsuite.
307 Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, ia32, and ia64 work, loop
308 opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
309 years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
313 Aldy Hernandez for working on the PowerPC port, SIMD support, and
317 Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
318 the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
321 Kazu Hirata for caring and feeding the Renesas H8/300 port and various fixes.
324 Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
325 of testing and bug fixing, particularly of our configury code.
328 Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
331 Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
334 Christian Iseli for various bug fixes.
337 Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
340 Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
343 Andreas Jaeger for testing and benchmarking of GCC and various bug fixes.
346 Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
347 as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
351 Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes, her quality improvement
352 sidetracks, and web page maintenance.
355 Kean Johnston for SCO OpenServer support and various fixes.
358 Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
359 Kenner's "``toy'' language".
362 Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation.
365 Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
368 David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
371 Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bug fixes and optimizations of
372 strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.
375 Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
376 and his automatic regression tester.
379 Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with g++ and for a lot of early work
380 in just about every part of libstdc++.
383 Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
387 Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
388 Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
389 Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
390 instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
391 processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
392 strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
393 code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
394 elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
395 head maintainer of GCC for several years.
398 Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and
399 maintaining binary releases for Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++
400 porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32.
403 Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
406 Mark Klein for PA improvements.
409 Thomas Koenig for various bug fixes.
412 Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
415 Benjamin Kosnik for his g++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
418 Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
422 Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
423 entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
424 handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
425 fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
428 Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
429 with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
432 Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
435 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for C++ improvements including template as template
436 parameter support, and many C++ fixes.
439 Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
440 random work on the Java front end.
443 Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU.
446 Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and
450 Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
453 Weiwen Liu for testing and various bug fixes.
456 Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
460 Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
461 various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of
462 assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges.
465 H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
466 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
469 Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
472 Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
473 various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
476 Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking
477 improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and
478 direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and
479 implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler.
482 Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
485 Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and
486 improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.
489 All of the Mauve project
490 @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/mauve/THANKS?rev=1.2&cvsroot=mauve&only_with_tag=HEAD,,contributors},
494 Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.
497 Adam Megacz for his work on the Windows port of GCJ.
500 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
501 powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
504 Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
508 David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
509 SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
513 Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
516 Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bug fixes, and turning the
517 entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.
520 Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
521 C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
522 ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.x.
525 Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
528 Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
529 maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
532 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
533 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
534 services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and
535 the backs of envelopes would have been... difficult.
538 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
539 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
543 Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.
546 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements.
549 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
550 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
551 than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
554 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
557 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
560 Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
561 C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
564 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship
565 through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale
566 infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project
567 documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on
568 MT-safe string and shadow headers.
571 Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.
574 Nathanael Nerode for cleaning up the configuration/build process.
577 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
581 Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
582 engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
585 Geoff Noer for this work on getting cygwin native builds working.
588 Diego Novillo for his SPEC performance tracking web pages and assorted
589 fixes in the middle end and various back ends.
592 David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
593 FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
597 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
598 amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy.
601 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
604 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to our o32
605 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
606 clean-ups and porting work, etc.
609 Hartmut Penner for work on the s390 port.
612 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
615 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and
616 continued Java maintainership.
619 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
622 Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
623 out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
624 taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
627 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
631 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
632 cleanups in the compiler.
635 Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT.
638 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
642 Volker Reichelt for keeping up with the problem reports.
645 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
649 Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD
650 port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical
651 threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems,
652 as well as keeping GCC properly working on FreeBSD and continuous testing.
655 Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
658 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
661 Ken Rose for fixes to our delay slot filling code.
664 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
667 Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits,
668 Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support.
671 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
674 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
677 Roger Sayle for improvements to constant folding and GCC's RTL optimizers
678 as well as for fixing numerous bugs.
681 Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ.
684 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
687 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
690 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
691 work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
695 Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++ -- especially application
696 testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release
697 criteria -- and libstdc++ header file tweaks.
700 Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.
703 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
706 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
707 contributions and RTEMS testing.
710 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
713 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
714 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
715 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
718 Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from
719 the LWG (thereby keeping us in line with updates from the ISO).
722 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
726 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
729 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
732 Danny Smith for his major efforts on the Mingw (and Cygwin) ports.
735 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
738 Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++
742 Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique.
745 Richard Stallman, for writing the original gcc and launching the GNU project.
748 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
749 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
752 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
755 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
758 Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
761 John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.
764 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, g++ contributions over the years and more
765 recently his vxworks contributions
768 Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.
771 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
774 Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking,
778 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU.
781 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
784 Philipp Thomas for random bug fixes throughout the compiler
787 Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD.
790 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
791 language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
794 Michael Tiemann for random bug fixes, the first instruction scheduler,
795 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
796 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
799 Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.
802 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
805 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
806 definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
809 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java
810 contributions and libgcj maintainership.
813 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
817 Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes.
820 Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their
821 associated configure steps.
824 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
827 Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML
831 Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
835 Krister Walfridsson for random bug fixes.
838 Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files
839 work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time
843 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
844 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
845 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
848 Ulrich Weigand for work on the s390 port.
851 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bug fixes.
854 Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ.
857 Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.
860 Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with
864 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
867 Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
870 Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
871 problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
872 reduction and other loop optimizations.
875 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
878 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
881 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
882 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
885 Kevin Zachmann helped ported GCC to the Tahoe.
888 Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.
893 We'd also like to thank the folks who have contributed time and energy in
967 Charles-Antoine Gauthier
1150 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug
1151 reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.