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@unnumberedsec Contributors to GDB
-Richard Stallman was the original author of GDB, and of many other @sc{gnu}
-programs. Many others have contributed to its development. This
-section attempts to credit major contributors. One of the virtues of
-free software is that everyone is free to contribute to it; with
+Richard Stallman was the original author of GDB, and of many other
+@sc{gnu} programs. Many others have contributed to its development.
+This section attempts to credit major contributors. One of the virtues
+of free software is that everyone is free to contribute to it; with
regret, we cannot actually acknowledge everyone here. The file
-@file{ChangeLog} in the @value{GDBN} distribution approximates a blow-by-blow
-account.
+@file{ChangeLog} in the @value{GDBN} distribution approximates a
+blow-by-blow account.
Changes much prior to version 2.0 are lost in the mists of time.
omitted from this list, we would like to add your names!
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-So that they may not regard their long labor as thankless, we
+So that they may not regard their many labors as thankless, we
particularly thank those who shepherded @value{GDBN} through major
releases:
-Jason Molenda (release 4.17),
-Stan Shebs (release 4.14),
-Fred Fish (releases 4.16, 4.15, 4.13, 4.12, 4.11, 4.10, and 4.9),
-Stu Grossman and John Gilmore (releases 4.8, 4.7, 4.6, 4.5, and 4.4),
+Jim Blandy (release 4.18);
+Jason Molenda (release 4.17);
+Stan Shebs (release 4.14);
+Fred Fish (releases 4.16, 4.15, 4.13, 4.12, 4.11, 4.10, and 4.9);
+Stu Grossman and John Gilmore (releases 4.8, 4.7, 4.6, 4.5, and 4.4);
John Gilmore (releases 4.3, 4.2, 4.1, 4.0, and 3.9);
Jim Kingdon (releases 3.5, 3.4, and 3.3);
and Randy Smith (releases 3.2, 3.1, and 3.0).
-As major maintainer of @value{GDBN} for some period, each contributed
-significantly to the structure, stability, and capabilities of the
-entire debugger.
Richard Stallman, assisted at various times by Peter TerMaat, Chris
Hanson, and Richard Mlynarik, handled releases through 2.8.
Pace Willison contributed Intel 386 support.
Jay Vosburgh contributed Symmetry support.
+Andreas Schwab contributed M68K Linux support.
+
Rich Schaefer and Peter Schauer helped with support of SunOS shared
libraries.
-Jay Fenlason and Roland McGrath ensured that @value{GDBN} and GAS agree about
-several machine instruction sets.
+Jay Fenlason and Roland McGrath ensured that @value{GDBN} and GAS agree
+about several machine instruction sets.
Patrick Duval, Ted Goldstein, Vikram Koka and Glenn Engel helped develop
remote debugging. Intel Corporation, Wind River Systems, AMD, and ARM
symbols.
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-Hitachi America, Ltd. sponsored the support for Hitachi microprocessors.
+Hitachi America, Ltd. sponsored the support for H8/300, H8/500, and
+Super-H processors.
+
+NEC sponsored the support for the v850, Vr4xxx, and Vr5xxx processors.
+
+Mitsubishi sponsored the support for D10V, D30V, and M32R/D processors.
+
+Toshiba sponsored the support for the TX39 Mips processor.
+
+Matsushita sponsored the support for the MN10200 and MN10300 processors.
+
+Fujitsu sponsored the support for SPARClite and FR30 processors
Kung Hsu, Jeff Law, and Rick Sladkey added support for hardware
watchpoints.
information in this manual.
Cygnus Solutions has sponsored GDB maintenance and much of its
-development since 1991.
+development since 1991. Cygnus engineers who have worked on GDB
+fulltime include Mark Alexander, Jim Blandy, Per Bothner, Edith Epstein,
+Chris Faylor, Fred Fish, Martin Hunt, Jim Ingham, John Gilmore, Stu
+Grossman, Kung Hsu, Jim Kingdon, John Metzler, Fernando Nasser, Geoffrey
+Noer, Dawn Perchik, Rich Pixley, Zdenek Radouch, Keith Seitz, Stan
+Shebs, David Taylor, and Elena Zannoni. In addition, Dave Brolley, Ian
+Carmichael, Steve Chamberlain, Nick Clifton, JT Conklin, Stan Cox, DJ
+Delorie, Ulrich Drepper, Frank Eigler, Doug Evans, Sean Fagan, David
+Henkel-Wallace, Richard Henderson, Jeff Holcomb, Jeff Law, Jim Lemke,
+Tom Lord, Bob Manson, Michael Meissner, Jason Merrill, Catherine Moore,
+Drew Moseley, Ken Raeburn, Gavin Romig-Koch, Rob Savoye, Jamie Smith,
+Mike Stump, Ian Taylor, Angela Thomas, Michael Tiemann, Tom Tromey, Ron
+Unrau, Jim Wilson, and David Zuhn have made contributions both large
+and small.
+
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