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159191Skris@c Copyright (C) 1988,1989,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000, 259191Skris@c 2001,2002,2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 359191Skris@c This is part of the GCC manual. 459191Skris@c For copying conditions, see the file gcc.texi. 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