-@c Copyright (C) 1988,1989,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002
-@c Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c Copyright (C) 1988,1989,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,
+@c 2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c This is part of the GCC manual.
@c For copying conditions, see the file gcc.texi.
The GCC project would like to thank its many contributors. Without them the
project would not have been nearly as successful as it has been. Any omissions
in this list are accidental. Feel free to contact
-@email{law@@redhat.com} if you have been left out
-or some of your contributions are not listed. Please keep this list in
+@email{law@@redhat.com} or @email{gerald@@pfeifer.com} if you have been left
+out or some of your contributions are not listed. Please keep this list in
alphabetical order.
-Some projects operating under the GCC project maintain their own list
-of contributors, such as
-@uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/libstdc++/,the C++ library}.
-
@itemize @bullet
@item
and iterators.
@item
-John David Anglin for improvements to libstdc++-v3 and the HP-UX port.
+John David Anglin for threading-related fixes and improvements to
+libstdc++-v3, and the HP-UX port.
@item
James van Artsdalen wrote the code that makes efficient use of
the Intel 80387 register stack.
@item
-Alasdair Baird for various bugfixes.
+Abramo and Roberto Bagnara for the SysV68 Motorola 3300 Delta Series
+port.
+
+@item
+Alasdair Baird for various bug fixes.
+
+@item
+Giovanni Bajo for analyzing lots of complicated C++ problem reports.
+
+@item
+Peter Barada for his work to improve code generation for new
+ColdFire cores.
@item
Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end.
+@item
+Godmar Back for his Java improvements and encouragement.
+
+@item
+Scott Bambrough for help porting the Java compiler.
+
+@item
+Wolfgang Bangerth for processing tons of bug reports.
+
+@item
+Jon Beniston for his Microsoft Windows port of Java.
+
+@item
+Daniel Berlin for better DWARF2 support, faster/better optimizations,
+improved alias analysis, plus migrating GCC to Bugzilla.
+
+@item
+Geoff Berry for his Java object serialization work and various patches.
+
+@item
+Uros Bizjak for the implementation of x87 math built-in functions and
+for various middle end and i386 back end improvements and bug fixes.
+
+@item
+Eric Blake for helping to make GCJ and libgcj conform to the
+specifications.
+
+@item
+Janne Blomqvist for contributions to GNU Fortran.
+
+@item
+Segher Boessenkool for various fixes.
+
+@item
+Hans-J. Boehm for his @uref{http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/,,
+garbage collector}, IA-64 libffi port, and other Java work.
+
@item
Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other
miscellaneous clean-ups.
+@item
+Steven Bosscher for integrating the GNU Fortran front end into GCC and for
+contributing to the tree-ssa branch.
+
+@item
+Eric Botcazou for fixing middle- and backend bugs left and right.
+
@item
Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
-improvements to our infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
-and Java front end implementations. Initial implementations of
-cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library
-(libg++) maintainer.
+improvements to the infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
+front end implementation. Initial implementations of
+cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++)
+maintainer. Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of GCJ@.
@item
Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
@item
Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
+@item
+Paul Brook for work on the ARM architecture and maintaining GNU Fortran.
+
@item
Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
@item
Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
+@item
+Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ@.
+
@item
Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
@item
-Craig Burley for leadership of the Fortran effort.
+Craig Burley for leadership of the G77 Fortran effort.
+
+@item
+Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++.
@item
-Paolo Carlini for his work on libstdc++-v3.
+Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to
+the C++ strings, streambufs and formatted I/O, hard detective work on
+the frustrating localization issues, and keeping up with the problem reports.
@item
John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
@item
-Steve Chamberlain wrote the support for the Hitachi SH and H8 processors
-and the PicoJava processor.
+Stephane Carrez for 68HC11 and 68HC12 ports.
+
+@item
+Steve Chamberlain for support for the Renesas SH and H8 processors
+and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.
+
+@item
+Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ@.
+
+@item
+John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches.
@item
Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
+@item
+Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.
+
@item
Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
@item
-Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and other random
-hacking.
+The @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/,,GNU Classpath project}
+for all of their merged runtime code.
+
+@item
+Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and
+other random hacking.
+
+@item
+Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings.
+
+@item
+R. Kelley Cook for making GCC buildable from a read-only directory as
+well as other miscellaneous build process and documentation clean-ups.
@item
-Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing.
+Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bug fixing.
@item
Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
@item
Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
+@item
+Paul Dale for his work to add uClinux platform support to the
+m68k backend.
+
@item
Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
that print a copy of their source.
@item
-Ulrich Drepper for his work on the C++ runtime libraries, glibc,
- testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99 support, CFG dumping support, etc.
+Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.
+
+@item
+Bud Davis for work on the G77 and GNU Fortran compilers.
+
+@item
+Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes.
+
+@item
+DJ Delorie for the DJGPP port, build and libiberty maintenance,
+various bug fixes, and the M32C port.
+
+@item
+Arnaud Desitter for helping to debug GNU Fortran.
+
+@item
+Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to G++, contributions and
+maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3,
+including @code{valarray<>}, @code{complex<>}, maintaining the numerics library
+(including that pesky @code{<limits>} :-) and keeping up-to-date anything
+to do with numbers.
+
+@item
+Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99
+support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime
+libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and
+maintaining @code{complex<>}, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration
+architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.
+
+@item
+Zdenek Dvorak for a new loop unroller and various fixes.
@item
Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
@item
-David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee,
-ongoing work with the RS6000/PowerPC port, and help cleaning up Haifa
-loop changes.
+David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work
+with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes,
+doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands, and for
+ensuring GCC properly keeps working on AIX@.
+
+@item
+Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in
+libstdc++.
+
+@item
+Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery,
+documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional
+iostream bug fix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
@item
Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
@item
-Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements.
+Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++
+configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.
+
+@item
+Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.
+
+@item
+Christian Ehrhardt for dealing with bug reports.
@item
Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
+@item
+Revital Eres for work on the PowerPC 750CL port.
+
@item
Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
and SPARC work.
+@item
+Christopher Faylor for his work on the Cygwin port and for caring and
+feeding the gcc.gnu.org box and saving its users tons of spam.
+
@item
Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
@item
-Peter Gerwinski for various bugfixes and the Pascal front end.
+Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portuguese translation of the GCJ FAQ@.
+
+@item
+Peter Gerwinski for various bug fixes and the Pascal front end.
+
+@item
+Kaveh R.@: Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee, amazing
+work to make @samp{-W -Wall -W* -Werror} useful, and continuously
+testing GCC on a plethora of platforms. Kaveh extends his gratitude to
+the @uref{http://www.caip.rutgers.edu,,CAIP Center} at Rutgers
+University for providing him with computing resources to work on Free
+Software since the late 1980s.
@item
-Kaveh Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee and
-amazing work to make @samp{-W -Wall} useful.
+John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.
@item
Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
@item
Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work.
+@item
+Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug Java code.
+
@item
Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
Intel 386 and 860 support.
+@item
+Mostafa Hagog for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS) and post reload GCSE@.
+
@item
Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
-warnings and assorted bugfixes.
+warnings and assorted bug fixes.
@item
-Andrew Haley for his Java work.
+Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
@item
Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
fixes.
@item
-Kate Hedstrom for staking the g77 folks with an initial testsuite.
+Dara Hazeghi for wading through myriads of target-specific bug reports.
+
+@item
+Kate Hedstrom for staking the G77 folks with an initial testsuite.
@item
-Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, and ia32 work, loop
+Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, ia32, and ia64 work, loop
opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
tons of patches.
+@item
+Aldy Hernandez for working on the PowerPC port, SIMD support, and
+various fixes.
+
@item
Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
+@item
+Kazu Hirata for caring and feeding the Renesas H8/300 port and various fixes.
+
+@item
+Katherine Holcomb for work on GNU Fortran.
+
@item
Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
-of testing an bugfixing, particularly of our configury code.
+of testing and bug fixing, particularly of GCC configury code.
@item
Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
@item
-Christian Iseli for various bugfixes.
+Falk Hueffner for working on C and optimization bug reports.
+
+@item
+Bernardo Innocenti for his m68k work, including merging of
+ColdFire improvements and uClinux support.
+
+@item
+Christian Iseli for various bug fixes.
@item
Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
@item
-Andreas Jaeger for various fixes to the MIPS port
+Andreas Jaeger for testing and benchmarking of GCC and various bug fixes.
@item
Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
-as lots of bug fixes and test cases.
+as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
+system.
+
+@item
+Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes, her quality improvement
+sidetracks, and web page maintenance.
+
+@item
+Kean Johnston for SCO OpenServer support and various fixes.
@item
-Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes and for her quality improvement
-sidetracks.
+Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
+Kenner's ``toy'' language.
@item
-J. Kean Johnston for OpenServer support.
+Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation.
@item
Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
+@item
+Steven G. Kargl for work on GNU Fortran.
+
@item
David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
+@item
+Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bug fixes and optimizations of
+strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.
+
@item
Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
and his automatic regression tester.
@item
-Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with g++.
+Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with G++ and for a lot of early work
+in just about every part of libstdc++.
@item
Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
head maintainer of GCC for several years.
@item
-Mumit Khan for various contributions to the cygwin and mingw32 ports and
-maintaining binary releases for Windows hosts.
+Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and
+maintaining binary releases for Microsoft Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++
+porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32.
@item
Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
Mark Klein for PA improvements.
@item
-Thomas Koenig for various bugfixes.
+Thomas Koenig for various bug fixes.
@item
Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
@item
-Benjamin Kosnik for his g++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
+Benjamin Kosnik for his G++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
@item
Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
68020 system.
+@item
+Asher Langton and Mike Kumbera for contributing Cray pointer support
+to GNU Fortran, and for other GNU Fortran improvements.
+
@item
Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
+@item
+Victor Leikehman for work on GNU Fortran.
+
@item
Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
@item
-Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for improvements to demangler and various c++ fixes.
+Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for C++ improvements including template as template
+parameter support, and many C++ fixes.
+
+@item
+Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
+random work on the Java front end.
@item
-Warren Levy major work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and random
-work on the Java front end.
+Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU@.
@item
-Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU.
+Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and
+patches.
@item
Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
@item
-Weiwen Liu for testing and various bugfixes.
+Chen Liqin for various S+core related fixes/improvement, and for
+maintaining the S+core port.
+
+@item
+Weiwen Liu for testing and various bug fixes.
@item
Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
@item
Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
-and various C++ improvements including namespace support.
+various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of
+assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges.
@item
H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
@item
Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
+@item
+Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and
+improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.
+
+@item
+All of the Mauve project
+@uref{http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/mauve/THANKS?rev=1.2&cvsroot=mauve&only_with_tag=HEAD,,contributors},
+for Java test code.
+
+@item
+Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.
+
+@item
+Adam Megacz for his work on the Microsoft Windows port of GCJ@.
+
@item
Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
@item
Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
-the g++ effort.
+the G++ effort.
+
+@item
+Martin Michlmayr for testing GCC on several architectures using the
+entire Debian archive.
@item
David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
@item
Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
+@item
+Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bug fixes, and turning the
+entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.
+
@item
Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
@item
Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
-services, ftp services, etc etc.
+services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and
+the backs of envelopes would have been@dots{} difficult.
@item
Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
Linux kernels.
@item
-David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements.
+Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.
+
+@item
+David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements, and for the initial
+IA-64 port.
@item
Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
@item
-Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3.
+Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship
+through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale
+infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project
+documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on
+MT-safe string and shadow headers.
+
+@item
+Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.
+
+@item
+Nathanael Nerode for cleaning up the configuration/build process.
@item
NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
@item
-Geoff Noer for this work on getting cygwin native builds working.
+Geoff Noer for his work on getting cygwin native builds working.
+
+@item
+Diego Novillo for his work on Tree SSA, OpenMP, SPEC performance
+tracking web pages and assorted fixes.
@item
David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
@item
Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
-amazing testing work.
+amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy.
+
+@item
+Stefan Olsson for work on mt_alloc.
@item
Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
@item
-Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to our o32
-ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, etc.
+Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to GCC's o32
+ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
+clean-ups and porting work, etc.
+
+@item
+Hartmut Penner for work on the s390 port.
@item
Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
@item
-Alexandre Petit-Bianco for his Java work.
+Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and
+continued Java maintainership.
@item
Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
+@item
+Andrew Pinski for processing bug reports by the dozen.
+
@item
Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
libraries.
+@item
+Jerry Quinn for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O@.
+
@item
Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
cleanups in the compiler.
+@item
+Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT@.
+
@item
David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
port.
@item
-Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions and maintenance of libstdc++-v3,
-including valarray implementation and limits support.
+Volker Reichelt for keeping up with the problem reports.
@item
Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
hacking.
@item
-Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 and the FreeBSD port.
+Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD
+port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical
+threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems,
+as well as keeping GCC properly working on FreeBSD and continuous testing.
@item
Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
+@item
+Ola R@"onnerup for work on mt_alloc.
+
@item
Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
@item
-Ken Rose for fixes to our delay slot filling code.
+David Ronis inspired and encouraged Craig to rewrite the G77
+documentation in texinfo format by contributing a first pass at a
+translation of the old @file{g77-0.5.16/f/DOC} file.
+
+@item
+Ken Rose for fixes to GCC's delay slot filling code.
@item
Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
+@item
+P@'etur Run@'olfsson for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O and
+large file support in C++ filebuf.
+
+@item
+Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits,
+Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support.
+
@item
Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
@item
Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
+@item
+Roger Sayle for improvements to constant folding and GCC's RTL optimizers
+as well as for fixing numerous bugs.
+
+@item
+Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ@.
+
@item
Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
@item
William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
+@item
+Tobias Schl@"uter for work on GNU Fortran.
+
@item
Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
GCC 2.95.3.
+@item
+Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++---especially application
+testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release
+criteria---and libstdc++ header file tweaks.
+
+@item
+Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.
+
@item
Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
+@item
+Lars Segerlund for work on GNU Fortran.
+
@item
Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
contributions and RTEMS testing.
code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
+@item
+Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from
+the LWG (thereby keeping GCC in line with updates from the ISO)@.
+
@item
Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
-for linux.
+for GNU/Linux.
@item
Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
+@item
+Trevor Smigiel for contributing the SPU port.
+
@item
Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
+@item
+Danny Smith for his major efforts on the Mingw (and Cygwin) ports.
+
@item
Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
@item
-Scott Snyder for various fixes.
+Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++
+testsuite entries. Also for providing the patch to G77 to add
+rudimentary support for @code{INTEGER*1}, @code{INTEGER*2}, and
+@code{LOGICAL*1}.
@item
-Richard Stallman, for writing the original gcc and launching the GNU project.
+Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique.
+
+@item
+Richard Stallman, for writing the original GCC and launching the GNU project.
@item
Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
@item
-Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, g++ contributions over the years and more
+John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.
+
+@item
+Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, G++ contributions over the years and more
recently his vxworks contributions
+@item
+Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.
+
@item
Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
fixincludes, etc.
@item
-Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU.
+Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU@.
@item
Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
@item
-Philipp Thomas for random bugfixes throughout the compiler
+Philipp Thomas for random bug fixes throughout the compiler
+
+@item
+Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD@.
@item
Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
-language.
+language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
@item
-Michael Tiemann for random bugfixes, the first instruction scheduler,
+Michael Tiemann for random bug fixes, the first instruction scheduler,
initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
+@item
+Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.
+
@item
Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
@item
-Tom Tromey for internationalization support and his Java work.
+Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java
+contributions and libgcj maintainership.
@item
Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
types.
+@item
+Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes.
+
+@item
+Andy Vaught for the design and initial implementation of the GNU Fortran
+front end.
+
+@item
+Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their
+associated configure steps.
+
@item
Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
+@item
+Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML
+guidance.
+
@item
Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
in time for GCC 3.0.
@item
-Krister Walfridsson for random bugfixes.
+Krister Walfridsson for random bug fixes.
+
+@item
+Feng Wang for contributions to GNU Fortran.
+
+@item
+Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files
+work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time
+header tree.
@item
John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
@item
-Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bugfixes.
+Ulrich Weigand for work on the s390 port.
+
+@item
+Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bug fixes.
+
+@item
+Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ@.
+
+@item
+Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.
+
+@item
+Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with
+Classpath.
@item
Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
reduction and other loop optimizations.
+@item
+Paul Woegerer and Tal Agmon for the CRX port.
+
@item
Carlo Wood for various fixes.
@item
Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
+@item
+Canqun Yang for work on GNU Fortran.
+
@item
Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
@item
-Kevin Zachmann helped ported GCC to the Tahoe.
+Kevin Zachmann helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
+
+@item
+Ayal Zaks for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS).
+
+@item
+Xiaoqiang Zhang for work on GNU Fortran.
+
+@item
+Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.
+
+@end itemize
+
+The following people are recognized for their contributions to GNAT,
+the Ada front end of GCC:
+@itemize @bullet
+@item
+Bernard Banner
+
+@item
+Romain Berrendonner
+
+@item
+Geert Bosch
+
+@item
+Emmanuel Briot
+
+@item
+Joel Brobecker
+
+@item
+Ben Brosgol
+
+@item
+Vincent Celier
+
+@item
+Arnaud Charlet
+
+@item
+Chien Chieng
+
+@item
+Cyrille Comar
+
+@item
+Cyrille Crozes
+
+@item
+Robert Dewar
+
+@item
+Gary Dismukes
+
+@item
+Robert Duff
+
+@item
+Ed Falis
+
+@item
+Ramon Fernandez
+
+@item
+Sam Figueroa
+
+@item
+Vasiliy Fofanov
+
+@item
+Michael Friess
+
+@item
+Franco Gasperoni
+
+@item
+Ted Giering
+
+@item
+Matthew Gingell
+
+@item
+Laurent Guerby
+
+@item
+Jerome Guitton
+
+@item
+Olivier Hainque
+
+@item
+Jerome Hugues
+
+@item
+Hristian Kirtchev
+
+@item
+Jerome Lambourg
+
+@item
+Bruno Leclerc
+
+@item
+Albert Lee
+
+@item
+Sean McNeil
+
+@item
+Javier Miranda
+
+@item
+Laurent Nana
+
+@item
+Pascal Obry
+
+@item
+Dong-Ik Oh
+
+@item
+Laurent Pautet
+
+@item
+Brett Porter
+
+@item
+Thomas Quinot
+
+@item
+Nicolas Roche
+
+@item
+Pat Rogers
+
+@item
+Jose Ruiz
+
+@item
+Douglas Rupp
+
+@item
+Sergey Rybin
+
+@item
+Gail Schenker
+
+@item
+Ed Schonberg
+
+@item
+Nicolas Setton
+
+@item
+Samuel Tardieu
+
+@end itemize
+
+
+The following people are recognized for their contributions of new
+features, bug reports, testing and integration of classpath/libgcj for
+GCC version 4.1:
+@itemize @bullet
+@item
+Lillian Angel for @code{JTree} implementation and lots Free Swing
+additions and bug fixes.
+
+@item
+Wolfgang Baer for @code{GapContent} bug fixes.
+
+@item
+Anthony Balkissoon for @code{JList}, Free Swing 1.5 updates and mouse event
+fixes, lots of Free Swing work including @code{JTable} editing.
+
+@item
+Stuart Ballard for RMI constant fixes.
+
+@item
+Goffredo Baroncelli for @code{HTTPURLConnection} fixes.
+
+@item
+Gary Benson for @code{MessageFormat} fixes.
+
+@item
+Daniel Bonniot for @code{Serialization} fixes.
+
+@item
+Chris Burdess for lots of gnu.xml and http protocol fixes, @code{StAX}
+and @code{DOM xml:id} support.
+
+@item
+Ka-Hing Cheung for @code{TreePath} and @code{TreeSelection} fixes.
+
+@item
+Archie Cobbs for build fixes, VM interface updates,
+@code{URLClassLoader} updates.
+
+@item
+Kelley Cook for build fixes.
+
+@item
+Martin Cordova for Suggestions for better @code{SocketTimeoutException}.
+
+@item
+David Daney for @code{BitSet} bug fixes, @code{HttpURLConnection}
+rewrite and improvements.
+
+@item
+Thomas Fitzsimmons for lots of upgrades to the gtk+ AWT and Cairo 2D
+support. Lots of imageio framework additions, lots of AWT and Free
+Swing bug fixes.
+
+@item
+Jeroen Frijters for @code{ClassLoader} and nio cleanups, serialization fixes,
+better @code{Proxy} support, bug fixes and IKVM integration.
+
+@item
+Santiago Gala for @code{AccessControlContext} fixes.
+
+@item
+Nicolas Geoffray for @code{VMClassLoader} and @code{AccessController}
+improvements.
+
+@item
+David Gilbert for @code{basic} and @code{metal} icon and plaf support
+and lots of documenting, Lots of Free Swing and metal theme
+additions. @code{MetalIconFactory} implementation.
+
+@item
+Anthony Green for @code{MIDI} framework, @code{ALSA} and @code{DSSI}
+providers.
+
+@item
+Andrew Haley for @code{Serialization} and @code{URLClassLoader} fixes,
+gcj build speedups.
+
+@item
+Kim Ho for @code{JFileChooser} implementation.
+
+@item
+Andrew John Hughes for @code{Locale} and net fixes, URI RFC2986
+updates, @code{Serialization} fixes, @code{Properties} XML support and
+generic branch work, VMIntegration guide update.
+
+@item
+Bastiaan Huisman for @code{TimeZone} bug fixing.
+
+@item
+Andreas Jaeger for mprec updates.
+
+@item
+Paul Jenner for better @option{-Werror} support.
+
+@item
+Ito Kazumitsu for @code{NetworkInterface} implementation and updates.
+
+@item
+Roman Kennke for @code{BoxLayout}, @code{GrayFilter} and
+@code{SplitPane}, plus bug fixes all over. Lots of Free Swing work
+including styled text.
+
+@item
+Simon Kitching for @code{String} cleanups and optimization suggestions.
+
+@item
+Michael Koch for configuration fixes, @code{Locale} updates, bug and
+build fixes.
+
+@item
+Guilhem Lavaux for configuration, thread and channel fixes and Kaffe
+integration. JCL native @code{Pointer} updates. Logger bug fixes.
+
+@item
+David Lichteblau for JCL support library global/local reference
+cleanups.
+
+@item
+Aaron Luchko for JDWP updates and documentation fixes.
+
+@item
+Ziga Mahkovec for @code{Graphics2D} upgraded to Cairo 0.5 and new regex
+features.
+
+@item
+Sven de Marothy for BMP imageio support, CSS and @code{TextLayout}
+fixes. @code{GtkImage} rewrite, 2D, awt, free swing and date/time fixes and
+implementing the Qt4 peers.
+
+@item
+Casey Marshall for crypto algorithm fixes, @code{FileChannel} lock,
+@code{SystemLogger} and @code{FileHandler} rotate implementations, NIO
+@code{FileChannel.map} support, security and policy updates.
+
+@item
+Bryce McKinlay for RMI work.
+
+@item
+Audrius Meskauskas for lots of Free Corba, RMI and HTML work plus
+testing and documenting.
+
+@item
+Kalle Olavi Niemitalo for build fixes.
+
+@item
+Rainer Orth for build fixes.
+
+@item
+Andrew Overholt for @code{File} locking fixes.
+
+@item
+Ingo Proetel for @code{Image}, @code{Logger} and @code{URLClassLoader}
+updates.
+
+@item
+Olga Rodimina for @code{MenuSelectionManager} implementation.
+
+@item
+Jan Roehrich for @code{BasicTreeUI} and @code{JTree} fixes.
+
+@item
+Julian Scheid for documentation updates and gjdoc support.
+
+@item
+Christian Schlichtherle for zip fixes and cleanups.
+
+@item
+Robert Schuster for documentation updates and beans fixes,
+@code{TreeNode} enumerations and @code{ActionCommand} and various
+fixes, XML and URL, AWT and Free Swing bug fixes.
+
+@item
+Keith Seitz for lots of JDWP work.
+
+@item
+Christian Thalinger for 64-bit cleanups, Configuration and VM
+interface fixes and @code{CACAO} integration, @code{fdlibm} updates.
+
+@item
+Gael Thomas for @code{VMClassLoader} boot packages support suggestions.
+
+@item
+Andreas Tobler for Darwin and Solaris testing and fixing, @code{Qt4}
+support for Darwin/OS X, @code{Graphics2D} support, @code{gtk+}
+updates.
+
+@item
+Dalibor Topic for better @code{DEBUG} support, build cleanups and
+Kaffe integration. @code{Qt4} build infrastructure, @code{SHA1PRNG}
+and @code{GdkPixbugDecoder} updates.
+
+@item
+Tom Tromey for Eclipse integration, generics work, lots of bug fixes
+and gcj integration including coordinating The Big Merge.
+
+@item
+Mark Wielaard for bug fixes, packaging and release management,
+@code{Clipboard} implementation, system call interrupts and network
+timeouts and @code{GdkPixpufDecoder} fixes.
@end itemize
-We'd also like to thank the folks who have contributed time and energy in
-testing GCC:
+In addition to the above, all of which also contributed time and energy in
+testing GCC, we would like to thank the following for their contributions
+to testing:
@itemize @bullet
+@item
+Michael Abd-El-Malek
+
+@item
+Thomas Arend
+
+@item
+Bonzo Armstrong
+
+@item
+Steven Ashe
+
+@item
+Chris Baldwin
+
@item
David Billinghurst
+@item
+Jim Blandy
+
+@item
+Stephane Bortzmeyer
+
@item
Horst von Brand
+@item
+Frank Braun
+
@item
Rodney Brown
@item
-Joe Buck
+Sidney Cadot
+
+@item
+Bradford Castalia
+
+@item
+Jonathan Corbet
@item
-Craig Burley
+Ralph Doncaster
@item
-Ulrich Drepper
+Richard Emberson
@item
-David Edelsohn
+Levente Farkas
+
+@item
+Graham Fawcett
+
+@item
+Mark Fernyhough
+
+@item
+Robert A. French
+
+@item
+J@"orgen Freyh
+
+@item
+Mark K. Gardner
+
+@item
+Charles-Antoine Gauthier
@item
Yung Shing Gene
@item
-Kaveh Ghazi
+David Gilbert
+
+@item
+Simon Gornall
+
+@item
+Fred Gray
+
+@item
+John Griffin
+
+@item
+Patrik Hagglund
+
+@item
+Phil Hargett
+
+@item
+Amancio Hasty
@item
-Kate Hedstrom
+Takafumi Hayashi
@item
-Richard Henderson
+Bryan W. Headley
@item
-Manfred Hollstein
+Kevin B. Hendricks
@item
-Kamil Iskra
+Joep Jansen
@item
Christian Joensson
@item
-Jeff Law
+Michel Kern
@item
-Robert Lipe
+David Kidd
@item
-Damon Love
+Tobias Kuipers
@item
-Dave Love
+Anand Krishnaswamy
@item
-H.J. Lu
+A. O. V. Le Blanc
@item
-Brad Lucier
+llewelly
+
+@item
+Damon Love
@item
-Mumit Khan
+Brad Lucier
@item
Matthias Klose
Martin Knoblauch
@item
-David Miller
+Rick Lutowski
+
+@item
+Jesse Macnish
@item
-Toon Moene
+Stefan Morrell
+
+@item
+Anon A. Mous
@item
Matthias Mueller
@item
-Alexandre Oliva
+Pekka Nikander
+
+@item
+Rick Niles
+
+@item
+Jon Olson
+
+@item
+Magnus Persson
+
+@item
+Chris Pollard
@item
Richard Polton
+@item
+Derk Reefman
+
@item
David Rees
@item
-Loren J. Rittle
+Paul Reilly
+
+@item
+Tom Reilly
+
+@item
+Torsten Rueger
@item
-Peter Schmid
+Danny Sadinoff
+
+@item
+Marc Schifer
+
+@item
+Erik Schnetter
+
+@item
+Wayne K. Schroll
@item
David Schuler
Vin Shelton
@item
-Franz Sirl
+Tim Souder
+
+@item
+Adam Sulmicki
+
+@item
+Bill Thorson
+
+@item
+George Talbot
+
+@item
+Pedro A. M. Vazquez
+
+@item
+Gregory Warnes
@item
-Mike Stump
+Ian Watson
@item
-Carlo Wood
+David E. Young
@item
And many others