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559191Skris
659191Skris@node Contributors
759191Skris@unnumbered Contributors to GCC
859191Skris@cindex contributors
959191Skris
1059191SkrisThe GCC project would like to thank its many contributors.  Without them the
1159191Skrisproject would not have been nearly as successful as it has been.  Any omissions
1259191Skrisin this list are accidental.  Feel free to contact
1359191Skris@email{law@@redhat.com} or @email{gerald@@pfeifer.com} if you have been left
1459191Skrisout or some of your contributions are not listed.  Please keep this list in
1559191Skrisalphabetical order.
1659191Skris
1759191Skris@itemize @bullet
1859191Skris
1959191Skris@item
2059191SkrisAnalog Devices helped implement the support for complex data types
2159191Skrisand iterators.
2259191Skris
2359191Skris@item
2459191SkrisJohn David Anglin for threading-related fixes and improvements to
2559191Skrislibstdc++-v3, and the HP-UX port.
2659191Skris
2759191Skris@item
2859191SkrisJames van Artsdalen wrote the code that makes efficient use of
2959191Skristhe Intel 80387 register stack.
3059191Skris
3159191Skris@item
3259191SkrisAlasdair Baird for various bug fixes.
3359191Skris
3459191Skris@item
3559191SkrisGerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end.
3659191Skris
3759191Skris@item
3859191SkrisGodmar Back for his Java improvements and encouragement.
3959191Skris
4059191Skris@item
4159191SkrisScott Bambrough for help porting the Java compiler.
4259191Skris
43109998Smarkm@item
4459191SkrisWolfgang Bangerth for processing tons of bug reports.
4559191Skris
4659191Skris@item
4759191SkrisJon Beniston for his Windows port of Java.
4859191Skris
4959191Skris@item
5059191SkrisDaniel Berlin for better DWARF2 support, faster/better optimizations,
51improved alias analysis, plus migrating us to Bugzilla.
52
53@item
54Geoff Berry for his Java object serialization work and various patches.
55
56@item
57Eric Blake for helping to make GCJ and libgcj conform to the
58specifications.
59
60@item
61Segher Boessenkool for various fixes.
62
63@item
64Hans-J. Boehm for his @uref{http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/,,
65garbage collector}, IA-64 libffi port, and other Java work.
66
67@item
68Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other
69miscellaneous clean-ups.
70
71@item
72Eric Botcazou for fixing middle- and backend bugs left and right.
73
74@item
75Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
76improvements to our infrastructure for supporting new languages.  Chill
77front end implementation.  Initial implementations of
78cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++)
79maintainer.  Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of GCJ.
80
81@item
82Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
83
84@item
85Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
86
87@item
88Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
89
90@item
91Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
92
93@item
94Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
95
96@item
97Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
98
99@item
100Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ.
101
102@item
103Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
104
105@item
106Craig Burley for leadership of the Fortran effort.
107
108@item
109Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++.
110
111@item
112Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to
113the string class, hard detective work on the frustrating localization
114issues, and keeping up with the problem reports.
115
116@item
117John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
118previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
119
120@item
121Stephane Carrez for 68HC11 and 68HC12 ports.
122
123@item
124Steve Chamberlain for support for the Renesas SH and H8 processors
125and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.
126
127@item
128Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ.
129
130@item
131John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches.
132
133@item
134Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
135
136@item
137Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.
138
139@item
140Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
141
142@item
143The @uref{http://www.classpath.org,,GNU Classpath project}
144for all of their merged runtime code.
145
146@item
147Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and
148other random hacking.
149
150@item
151Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings.
152
153@item
154Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing.
155
156@item
157Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
158the scenes hacking.
159
160@item
161Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
162
163@item
164Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
165
166@item
167Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
168that print a copy of their source.
169
170@item
171Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.
172
173@item
174Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes.
175
176@item
177DJ Delorie for the DJGPP port, build and libiberty maintenance, and
178various bug fixes.
179
180@item
181Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to g++, contributions and
182maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3,
183including valarray<>, complex<>, maintaining the numerics library
184(including that pesky <limits> :-) and keeping up-to-date anything
185to do with numbers.
186
187@item
188Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99
189support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime
190libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and
191maintaining complex<>, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration
192architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.
193
194@item
195Zdenek Dvorak for a new loop unroller and various fixes.
196
197@item
198Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
199
200@item
201David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work
202with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes,
203doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands, and for
204ensuring GCC properly keeps working on AIX.
205
206@item
207Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in
208libstdc++.
209
210@item
211Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery,
212documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional
213iostream bug fix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
214
215@item
216Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
217
218@item
219Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++
220configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.
221
222@item
223Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.
224
225@item
226Christian Ehrhardt for dealing with bug reports.
227
228@item
229Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
230own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
231
232@item
233Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
234
235@item
236Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
237and SPARC work.
238
239@item
240Christopher Faylor for his work on the Cygwin port and for caring and
241feeding the gcc.gnu.org box and saving its users tons of spam.
242
243@item
244Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
245
246@item
247Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portugese translation of the GCJ FAQ.
248
249@item
250Peter Gerwinski for various bug fixes and the Pascal front end.
251
252@item
253Kaveh Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee,
254amazing work to make @samp{-W -Wall} useful, and continuously testing
255GCC on a plethora of platforms.
256
257@item
258John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.
259
260@item
261Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
262
263@item
264Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
265multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
266support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
267via the steering committee.
268
269@item
270Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work.
271
272@item
273Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug our code.
274
275@item
276Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
277
278@item
279Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
280tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
281the support for System V Release 4.  He has also worked heavily on the
282Intel 386 and 860 support.
283
284@item
285Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
286warnings and assorted bug fixes.
287
288@item
289Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
290
291@item
292Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
293
294@item
295Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
296the c30/c40 ports functional.  Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
297fixes.
298
299@item
300Kate Hedstrom for staking the g77 folks with an initial testsuite.
301
302@item
303Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, ia32, and ia64 work, loop
304opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
305years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
306tons of patches.
307
308@item
309Aldy Hernandez for working on the PowerPC port, SIMD support, and
310various fixes.
311
312@item
313Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
314the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
315
316@item
317Kazu Hirata for caring and feeding the Renesas H8/300 port and various fixes.
318
319@item
320Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
321of testing and bug fixing, particularly of our configury code.
322
323@item
324Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
325
326@item
327Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
328
329@item
330Christian Iseli for various bug fixes.
331
332@item
333Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
334
335@item
336Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
337
338@item
339Andreas Jaeger for testing and benchmarking of GCC and various bug fixes.
340
341@item
342Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
343as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
344system.
345
346@item
347Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes, her quality improvement
348sidetracks, and web page maintenance.
349
350@item
351Kean Johnston for SCO OpenServer support and various fixes.
352
353@item
354Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
355Kenner's "``toy'' language".
356
357@item
358Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation.
359
360@item
361Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
362
363@item
364David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
365
366@item
367Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bug fixes and optimizations of
368strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.
369
370@item
371Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
372and his automatic regression tester.
373
374@item
375Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with g++ and for a lot of early work
376in just about every part of libstdc++.
377
378@item
379Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
380MIL-STD-1750A@.
381
382@item
383Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
384Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
385Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
386instruction attributes.  He also made changes to better support RISC
387processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
388strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
389code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
390elimination and delay slot scheduling.  Richard Kenner was also the
391head maintainer of GCC for several years.
392
393@item
394Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and
395maintaining binary releases for Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++
396porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32.
397
398@item
399Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
400
401@item
402Mark Klein for PA improvements.
403
404@item
405Thomas Koenig for various bug fixes.
406
407@item
408Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
409
410@item
411Benjamin Kosnik for his g++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
412
413@item
414Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
41568020 system.
416
417@item
418Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
419entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
420handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
421fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
422
423@item
424Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
425with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
426
427@item
428Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
429
430@item
431Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for C++ improvements including template as template
432parameter support, and many C++ fixes.
433
434@item
435Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
436random work on the Java front end.
437
438@item
439Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU.
440
441@item
442Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and
443patches.
444
445@item
446Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
447
448@item
449Weiwen Liu for testing and various bug fixes.
450
451@item
452Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
453runtime libraries.
454
455@item
456Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
457various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of
458assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges.
459
460@item
461H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
462bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
463
464@item
465Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
466
467@item
468Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
469various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
470
471@item
472Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking
473improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and
474direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and
475implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler.
476
477@item
478Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
479
480@item
481Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and
482improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.
483
484@item
485All of the Mauve project
486@uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/mauve/THANKS?rev=1.2&cvsroot=mauve&only_with_tag=HEAD,,contributors},
487for Java test code.
488
489@item
490Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.
491
492@item
493Adam Megacz for his work on the Windows port of GCJ.
494
495@item
496Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
497powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
498
499@item
500Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
501the g++ effort.
502
503@item
504David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
505SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
506developers.
507
508@item
509Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
510
511@item
512Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bug fixes, and turning the
513entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.
514
515@item
516Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
517C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
518ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.x.
519
520@item
521Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
522
523@item
524Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
525maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
526
527@item
528Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
529on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
530services, ftp services, etc etc.  Doing all this work on scrap paper and
531the backs of envelopes would have been... difficult.
532
533@item
534Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
535way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
536Linux kernels.
537
538@item
539Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.
540
541@item
542David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements.
543
544@item
545Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
546cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
547than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
548
549@item
550Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
551
552@item
553Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
554
555@item
556Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
557C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
558
559@item
560Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship
561through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale
562infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project
563documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth).  Later, more work on
564MT-safe string and shadow headers.
565
566@item
567Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.
568
569@item
570Nathanael Nerode for cleaning up the configuration/build process.
571
572@item
573NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
574language.
575
576@item
577Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
578engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
579
580@item
581Geoff Noer for this work on getting cygwin native builds working.
582
583@item
584Diego Novillo for his SPEC performance tracking web pages and assorted
585fixes in the middle end and various back ends.
586
587@item
588David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
589FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
590improvements.
591
592@item
593Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
594amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy.
595
596@item
597Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
598
599@item
600Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to our o32
601ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
602clean-ups and porting work, etc.
603
604@item
605Hartmut Penner for work on the s390 port.
606
607@item
608Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
609
610@item
611Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and
612continued Java maintainership.
613
614@item
615Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
616
617@item
618Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
619out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
620taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
621
622@item
623Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
624libraries.
625
626@item
627Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
628cleanups in the compiler.
629
630@item
631Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT.
632
633@item
634David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
635port.
636
637@item
638Volker Reichelt for keeping up with the problem reports.
639
640@item
641Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
642hacking.
643
644@item
645Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD
646port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical
647threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems,
648as well as keeping GCC properly working on FreeBSD and continuous testing.
649
650@item
651Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
652
653@item
654Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
655
656@item
657Ken Rose for fixes to our delay slot filling code.
658
659@item
660Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
661
662@item
663Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits,
664Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support.
665
666@item
667Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
668
669@item
670Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
671
672@item
673Roger Sayle for improvements to constant folding and GCC's RTL optimizers
674as well as for fixing numerous bugs.
675
676@item
677Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ.
678
679@item
680Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
681
682@item
683William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
684
685@item
686Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
687work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
688GCC 2.95.3.
689
690@item
691Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++ -- especially application
692testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release
693criteria -- and libstdc++ header file tweaks.
694
695@item
696Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.
697
698@item
699Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
700
701@item
702Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
703contributions and RTEMS testing.
704
705@item
706Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
707
708@item
709Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
710code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
711folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
712
713@item
714Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from
715the LWG (thereby keeping us in line with updates from the ISO).
716
717@item
718Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
719for linux.
720
721@item
722Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
723
724@item
725Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
726
727@item
728Danny Smith for his major efforts on the Mingw (and Cygwin) ports.
729
730@item
731Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
732
733@item
734Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++
735testsuite entries.
736
737@item
738Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique.
739
740@item
741Richard Stallman, for writing the original gcc and launching the GNU project.
742
743@item
744Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
745Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
746
747@item
748Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
749
750@item
751Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
752
753@item
754Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
755
756@item
757John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.
758
759@item
760Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, g++ contributions over the years and more
761recently his vxworks contributions
762
763@item
764Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.
765
766@item
767Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
768
769@item
770Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking,
771fixincludes, etc.
772
773@item
774Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU.
775
776@item
777Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
778
779@item
780Philipp Thomas for random bug fixes throughout the compiler
781
782@item
783Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD.
784
785@item
786Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
787language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
788
789@item
790Michael Tiemann for random bug fixes, the first instruction scheduler,
791initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
792machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
793
794@item
795Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.
796
797@item
798Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
799
800@item
801Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
802definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
803
804@item
805Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java
806contributions and libgcj maintainership.
807
808@item
809Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
810types.
811
812@item
813Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes.
814
815@item
816Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their
817associated configure steps.
818
819@item
820Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
821
822@item
823Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML
824guidance.
825
826@item
827Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
828in time for GCC 3.0.
829
830@item
831Krister Walfridsson for random bug fixes.
832
833@item
834Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files
835work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time
836header tree.
837
838@item
839John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
840related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
841value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
842
843@item
844Ulrich Weigand for work on the s390 port.
845
846@item
847Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bug fixes.
848
849@item
850Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ.
851
852@item
853Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.
854
855@item
856Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with
857Classpath.
858
859@item
860Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
861
862@item
863Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
864
865@item
866Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
867problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
868reduction and other loop optimizations.
869
870@item
871Carlo Wood for various fixes.
872
873@item
874Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
875
876@item
877Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
878description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
879
880@item
881Kevin Zachmann helped ported GCC to the Tahoe.
882
883@item
884Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.
885
886@end itemize
887
888In addition to the above, all of which also contributed time and energy in
889testing GCC, we would like to thank the following for their contributions
890to testing:
891
892@itemize @bullet
893@item
894Michael Abd-El-Malek
895
896@item
897Thomas Arend
898
899@item
900Bonzo Armstrong
901
902@item
903Steven Ashe
904
905@item
906Chris Baldwin
907
908@item
909David Billinghurst
910
911@item
912Jim Blandy
913
914@item
915Stephane Bortzmeyer
916
917@item
918Horst von Brand
919
920@item
921Frank Braun
922
923@item
924Rodney Brown
925
926@item
927Sidney Cadot
928
929@item
930Bradford Castalia
931
932@item
933Ralph Doncaster
934
935@item
936Richard Emberson
937
938@item
939Levente Farkas
940
941@item
942Graham Fawcett
943
944@item
945Robert A. French
946
947@item
948J@"orgen Freyh
949
950@item
951Mark K. Gardner
952
953@item
954Charles-Antoine Gauthier
955
956@item
957Yung Shing Gene
958
959@item
960David Gilbert
961
962@item
963Simon Gornall
964
965@item
966Fred Gray
967
968@item
969John Griffin
970
971@item
972Patrik Hagglund
973
974@item
975Phil Hargett
976
977@item
978Amancio Hasty
979
980@item
981Bryan W. Headley
982
983@item
984Kevin B. Hendricks
985
986@item
987Joep Jansen
988
989@item
990Christian Joensson
991
992@item
993David Kidd
994
995@item
996Tobias Kuipers
997
998@item
999Anand Krishnaswamy
1000
1001@item
1002llewelly
1003
1004@item
1005Damon Love
1006
1007@item
1008Brad Lucier
1009
1010@item
1011Matthias Klose
1012
1013@item
1014Martin Knoblauch
1015
1016@item
1017Jesse Macnish
1018
1019@item
1020Stefan Morrell
1021
1022@item
1023Anon A. Mous
1024
1025@item
1026Matthias Mueller
1027
1028@item
1029Pekka Nikander
1030
1031@item
1032Jon Olson
1033
1034@item
1035Magnus Persson
1036
1037@item
1038Chris Pollard
1039
1040@item
1041Richard Polton
1042
1043@item
1044David Rees
1045
1046@item
1047Paul Reilly
1048
1049@item
1050Tom Reilly
1051
1052@item
1053Torsten Rueger
1054
1055@item
1056Danny Sadinoff
1057
1058@item
1059Marc Schifer
1060
1061@item
1062David Schuler
1063
1064@item
1065Vin Shelton
1066
1067@item
1068Tim Souder
1069
1070@item
1071Adam Sulmicki
1072
1073@item
1074George Talbot
1075
1076@item
1077Gregory Warnes
1078
1079@item
1080David E. Young
1081
1082@item
1083And many others
1084@end itemize
1085
1086And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug
1087reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.
1088