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5
6@node Contributors
7@unnumbered Contributors to GCC
8@cindex contributors
9
10The GCC project would like to thank its many contributors.  Without them the
11project would not have been nearly as successful as it has been.  Any omissions
12in this list are accidental.  Feel free to contact
13@email{law@@redhat.com} or @email{gerald@@pfeifer.com} if you have been left
14out or some of your contributions are not listed.  Please keep this list in
15alphabetical order.
16
17@itemize @bullet
18
19@item
20Analog Devices helped implement the support for complex data types
21and iterators.
22
23@item
24John David Anglin for threading-related fixes and improvements to
25libstdc++-v3, and the HP-UX port.
26
27@item
28James van Artsdalen wrote the code that makes efficient use of
29the Intel 80387 register stack.
30
31@item
32Abramo and Roberto Bagnara for the SysV68 Motorola 3300 Delta Series
33port.
34
35@item
36Alasdair Baird for various bug fixes.
37
38@item
39Giovanni Bajo for analyzing lots of complicated C++ problem reports.
40
41@item
42Peter Barada for his work to improve code generation for new
43ColdFire cores.
44
45@item
46Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end.
47
48@item
49Godmar Back for his Java improvements and encouragement.
50
51@item
52Scott Bambrough for help porting the Java compiler.
53
54@item
55Wolfgang Bangerth for processing tons of bug reports.
56
57@item
58Jon Beniston for his Microsoft Windows port of Java.
59
60@item
61Daniel Berlin for better DWARF2 support, faster/better optimizations,
62improved alias analysis, plus migrating GCC to Bugzilla.
63
64@item
65Geoff Berry for his Java object serialization work and various patches.
66
67@item
68Uros Bizjak for the implementation of x87 math built-in functions and
69for various middle end and i386 back end improvements and bugfixes.
70
71@item
72Eric Blake for helping to make GCJ and libgcj conform to the
73specifications.
74
75@item
76Janne Blomqvist for contributions to GNU Fortran.
77
78@item
79Segher Boessenkool for various fixes.
80
81@item
82Hans-J. Boehm for his @uref{http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/,,
83garbage collector}, IA-64 libffi port, and other Java work.
84
85@item
86Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other
87miscellaneous clean-ups.
88
89@item
90Steven Bosscher for integrating the GNU Fortran front end into GCC and for
91contributing to the tree-ssa branch.
92
93@item
94Eric Botcazou for fixing middle- and backend bugs left and right.
95
96@item
97Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
98improvements to the infrastructure for supporting new languages.  Chill
99front end implementation.  Initial implementations of
100cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++)
101maintainer.  Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of GCJ@.
102
103@item
104Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
105
106@item
107Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
108
109@item
110Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
111
112@item
113Paul Brook for work on the ARM architecture and maintaining GNU Fortran.
114
115@item
116Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
117
118@item
119Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
120
121@item
122Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
123
124@item
125Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ@.
126
127@item
128Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
129
130@item
131Craig Burley for leadership of the G77 Fortran effort.
132
133@item
134Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++.
135
136@item
137Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to
138the C++ strings, streambufs and formatted I/O, hard detective work on
139the frustrating localization issues, and keeping up with the problem reports.
140
141@item
142John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
143previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
144
145@item
146Stephane Carrez for 68HC11 and 68HC12 ports.
147
148@item
149Steve Chamberlain for support for the Renesas SH and H8 processors
150and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.
151
152@item
153Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ@.
154
155@item
156John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches.
157
158@item
159Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
160
161@item
162Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.
163
164@item
165Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
166
167@item
168The @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/,,GNU Classpath project}
169for all of their merged runtime code.
170
171@item
172Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and
173other random hacking.
174
175@item
176Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings.
177
178@item
179R. Kelley Cook for making GCC buildable from a read-only directory as
180well as other miscellaneous build process and documentation clean-ups.
181
182@item
183Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing.
184
185@item
186Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
187the scenes hacking.
188
189@item
190Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
191
192@item
193Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
194
195@item
196Paul Dale for his work to add uClinux platform support to the
197m68k backend.
198
199@item
200Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
201that print a copy of their source.
202
203@item
204Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.
205
206@item
207Bud Davis for work on the G77 and GNU Fortran compilers.
208
209@item
210Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes.
211
212@item
213DJ Delorie for the DJGPP port, build and libiberty maintenance,
214various bug fixes, and the M32C port.
215
216@item
217Arnaud Desitter for helping to debug GNU Fortran.
218
219@item
220Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to G++, contributions and
221maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3,
222including @code{valarray<>}, @code{complex<>}, maintaining the numerics library
223(including that pesky @code{<limits>} :-) and keeping up-to-date anything
224to do with numbers.
225
226@item
227Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99
228support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime
229libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and
230maintaining @code{complex<>}, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration
231architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.
232
233@item
234Zdenek Dvorak for a new loop unroller and various fixes.
235
236@item
237Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
238
239@item
240David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work
241with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes,
242doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands, and for
243ensuring GCC properly keeps working on AIX@.
244
245@item
246Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in
247libstdc++.
248
249@item
250Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery,
251documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional
252iostream bug fix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
253
254@item
255Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
256
257@item
258Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++
259configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.
260
261@item
262Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.
263
264@item
265Christian Ehrhardt for dealing with bug reports.
266
267@item
268Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
269own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
270
271@item
272Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
273
274@item
275Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
276and SPARC work.
277
278@item
279Christopher Faylor for his work on the Cygwin port and for caring and
280feeding the gcc.gnu.org box and saving its users tons of spam.
281
282@item
283Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
284
285@item
286Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portuguese translation of the GCJ FAQ@.
287
288@item
289Peter Gerwinski for various bug fixes and the Pascal front end.
290
291@item
292Kaveh R.@: Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee, amazing
293work to make @samp{-W -Wall -W* -Werror} useful, and continuously
294testing GCC on a plethora of platforms.  Kaveh extends his gratitude to
295the @uref{http://www.caip.rutgers.edu,,CAIP Center} at Rutgers
296University for providing him with computing resources to work on Free
297Software since the late 1980s.
298
299@item
300John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.
301
302@item
303Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
304
305@item
306Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
307multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
308support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
309via the steering committee.
310
311@item
312Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work.
313
314@item
315Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug Java code.
316
317@item
318Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
319
320@item
321Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
322tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
323the support for System V Release 4.  He has also worked heavily on the
324Intel 386 and 860 support.
325
326@item
327Mostafa Hagog for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS) and post reload GCSE@.
328
329@item
330Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
331warnings and assorted bug fixes.
332
333@item
334Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
335
336@item
337Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
338
339@item
340Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
341the c30/c40 ports functional.  Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
342fixes.
343
344@item
345Dara Hazeghi for wading through myriads of target-specific bug reports.
346
347@item
348Kate Hedstrom for staking the G77 folks with an initial testsuite.
349
350@item
351Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, ia32, and ia64 work, loop
352opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
353years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
354tons of patches.
355
356@item
357Aldy Hernandez for working on the PowerPC port, SIMD support, and
358various fixes.
359
360@item
361Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
362the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
363
364@item
365Kazu Hirata for caring and feeding the Renesas H8/300 port and various fixes.
366
367@item
368Katherine Holcomb for work on GNU Fortran.
369
370@item
371Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
372of testing and bug fixing, particularly of GCC configury code.
373
374@item
375Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
376
377@item
378Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
379
380@item
381Falk Hueffner for working on C and optimization bug reports.
382
383@item
384Bernardo Innocenti for his m68k work, including merging of
385ColdFire improvements and uClinux support.
386
387@item
388Christian Iseli for various bug fixes.
389
390@item
391Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
392
393@item
394Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
395
396@item
397Andreas Jaeger for testing and benchmarking of GCC and various bug fixes.
398
399@item
400Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
401as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
402system.
403
404@item
405Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes, her quality improvement
406sidetracks, and web page maintenance.
407
408@item
409Kean Johnston for SCO OpenServer support and various fixes.
410
411@item
412Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
413Kenner's ``toy'' language.
414
415@item
416Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation.
417
418@item
419Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
420
421@item
422Steven G. Kargl for work on GNU Fortran.
423
424@item
425David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
426
427@item
428Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bug fixes and optimizations of
429strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.
430
431@item
432Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
433and his automatic regression tester.
434
435@item
436Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with G++ and for a lot of early work
437in just about every part of libstdc++.
438
439@item
440Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
441MIL-STD-1750A@.
442
443@item
444Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
445Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
446Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
447instruction attributes.  He also made changes to better support RISC
448processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
449strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
450code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
451elimination and delay slot scheduling.  Richard Kenner was also the
452head maintainer of GCC for several years.
453
454@item
455Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and
456maintaining binary releases for Microsoft Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++
457porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32.
458
459@item
460Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
461
462@item
463Mark Klein for PA improvements.
464
465@item
466Thomas Koenig for various bug fixes.
467
468@item
469Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
470
471@item
472Benjamin Kosnik for his G++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
473
474@item
475Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
47668020 system.
477
478@item
479Asher Langton and Mike Kumbera for contributing Cray pointer support
480to GNU Fortran, and for other GNU Fortran improvements.
481
482@item
483Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
484entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
485handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
486fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
487
488@item
489Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
490with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
491
492@item
493Victor Leikehman for work on GNU Fortran.
494
495@item
496Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
497
498@item
499Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for C++ improvements including template as template
500parameter support, and many C++ fixes.
501
502@item
503Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
504random work on the Java front end.
505
506@item
507Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU@.
508
509@item
510Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and
511patches.
512
513@item
514Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
515
516@item
517Weiwen Liu for testing and various bug fixes.
518
519@item
520Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
521runtime libraries.
522
523@item
524Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
525various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of
526assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges.
527
528@item
529H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
530bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
531
532@item
533Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
534
535@item
536Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
537various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
538
539@item
540Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking
541improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and
542direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and
543implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler.
544
545@item
546Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
547
548@item
549Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and
550improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.
551
552@item
553All of the Mauve project
554@uref{http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/mauve/THANKS?rev=1.2&cvsroot=mauve&only_with_tag=HEAD,,contributors},
555for Java test code.
556
557@item
558Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.
559
560@item
561Adam Megacz for his work on the Microsoft Windows port of GCJ@.
562
563@item
564Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
565powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
566
567@item
568Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
569the G++ effort.
570
571@item
572Martin Michlmayr for testing GCC on several architectures using the
573entire Debian archive.
574
575@item
576David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
577SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
578developers.
579
580@item
581Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
582
583@item
584Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bug fixes, and turning the
585entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.
586
587@item
588Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
589C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
590ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.x.
591
592@item
593Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
594
595@item
596Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
597maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
598
599@item
600Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
601on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
602services, ftp services, etc etc.  Doing all this work on scrap paper and
603the backs of envelopes would have been@dots{} difficult.
604
605@item
606Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
607way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
608Linux kernels.
609
610@item
611Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.
612
613@item
614David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements, and for the initial
615IA-64 port.
616
617@item
618Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
619cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
620than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
621
622@item
623Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
624
625@item
626Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
627
628@item
629Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
630C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
631
632@item
633Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship
634through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale
635infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project
636documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth).  Later, more work on
637MT-safe string and shadow headers.
638
639@item
640Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.
641
642@item
643Nathanael Nerode for cleaning up the configuration/build process.
644
645@item
646NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
647language.
648
649@item
650Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
651engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
652
653@item
654Geoff Noer for his work on getting cygwin native builds working.
655
656@item
657Diego Novillo for his work on Tree SSA, OpenMP, SPEC performance
658tracking web pages and assorted fixes.
659
660@item
661David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
662FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
663improvements.
664
665@item
666Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
667amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy.
668
669@item
670Stefan Olsson for work on mt_alloc.
671
672@item
673Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
674
675@item
676Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to GCC's o32
677ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
678clean-ups and porting work, etc.
679
680@item
681Hartmut Penner for work on the s390 port.
682
683@item
684Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
685
686@item
687Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and
688continued Java maintainership.
689
690@item
691Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
692
693@item
694Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
695out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
696taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
697
698@item
699Andrew Pinski for processing bug reports by the dozen.
700
701@item
702Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
703libraries.
704
705@item
706Jerry Quinn for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O@.
707
708@item
709Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
710cleanups in the compiler.
711
712@item
713Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT@.
714
715@item
716David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
717port.
718
719@item
720Volker Reichelt for keeping up with the problem reports.
721
722@item
723Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
724hacking.
725
726@item
727Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD
728port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical
729threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems,
730as well as keeping GCC properly working on FreeBSD and continuous testing.
731
732@item
733Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
734
735@item
736Ola R@"onnerup for work on mt_alloc.
737
738@item
739Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
740
741@item
742David Ronis inspired and encouraged Craig to rewrite the G77
743documentation in texinfo format by contributing a first pass at a
744translation of the old @file{g77-0.5.16/f/DOC} file.
745
746@item
747Ken Rose for fixes to GCC's delay slot filling code.
748
749@item
750Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
751
752@item
753P@'etur Run@'olfsson for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O and
754large file support in C++ filebuf.
755
756@item
757Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits,
758Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support.
759
760@item
761Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
762
763@item
764Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
765
766@item
767Roger Sayle for improvements to constant folding and GCC's RTL optimizers
768as well as for fixing numerous bugs.
769
770@item
771Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ@.
772
773@item
774Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
775
776@item
777William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
778
779@item
780Tobias Schl@"uter for work on GNU Fortran.
781
782@item
783Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
784work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
785GCC 2.95.3.
786
787@item
788Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++---especially application
789testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release
790criteria---and libstdc++ header file tweaks.
791
792@item
793Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.
794
795@item
796Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
797
798@item
799Lars Segerlund for work on GNU Fortran.
800
801@item
802Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
803contributions and RTEMS testing.
804
805@item
806Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
807
808@item
809Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
810code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
811folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
812
813@item
814Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from
815the LWG (thereby keeping GCC in line with updates from the ISO)@.
816
817@item
818Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
819for GNU/Linux.
820
821@item
822Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
823
824@item
825Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
826
827@item
828Danny Smith for his major efforts on the Mingw (and Cygwin) ports.
829
830@item
831Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
832
833@item
834Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++
835testsuite entries.  Also for providing the patch to G77 to add
836rudimentary support for @code{INTEGER*1}, @code{INTEGER*2}, and
837@code{LOGICAL*1}.
838
839@item
840Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique.
841
842@item
843Richard Stallman, for writing the original GCC and launching the GNU project.
844
845@item
846Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
847Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
848
849@item
850Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
851
852@item
853Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
854
855@item
856Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
857
858@item
859John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.
860
861@item
862Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, G++ contributions over the years and more
863recently his vxworks contributions
864
865@item
866Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.
867
868@item
869Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
870
871@item
872Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking,
873fixincludes, etc.
874
875@item
876Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU@.
877
878@item
879Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
880
881@item
882Philipp Thomas for random bug fixes throughout the compiler
883
884@item
885Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD@.
886
887@item
888Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
889language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
890
891@item
892Michael Tiemann for random bug fixes, the first instruction scheduler,
893initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
894machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
895
896@item
897Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.
898
899@item
900Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
901
902@item
903Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
904definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
905
906@item
907Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java
908contributions and libgcj maintainership.
909
910@item
911Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
912types.
913
914@item
915Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes.
916
917@item
918Andy Vaught for the design and initial implementation of the GNU Fortran
919front end.
920
921@item
922Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their
923associated configure steps.
924
925@item
926Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
927
928@item
929Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML
930guidance.
931
932@item
933Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
934in time for GCC 3.0.
935
936@item
937Krister Walfridsson for random bug fixes.
938
939@item
940Feng Wang for contributions to GNU Fortran.
941
942@item
943Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files
944work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time
945header tree.
946
947@item
948John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
949related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
950value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
951
952@item
953Ulrich Weigand for work on the s390 port.
954
955@item
956Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bug fixes.
957
958@item
959Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ@.
960
961@item
962Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.
963
964@item
965Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with
966Classpath.
967
968@item
969Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
970
971@item
972Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
973
974@item
975Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
976problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
977reduction and other loop optimizations.
978
979@item
980Paul Woegerer and Tal Agmon for the CRX port.
981
982@item
983Carlo Wood for various fixes.
984
985@item
986Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
987
988@item
989Canqun Yang for work on GNU Fortran.
990
991@item
992Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
993description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
994
995@item
996Kevin Zachmann helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
997
998@item
999Ayal Zaks for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS).
1000
1001@item
1002Xiaoqiang Zhang for work on GNU Fortran.
1003
1004@item
1005Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.
1006
1007@end itemize
1008
1009The following people are recognized for their contributions to GNAT,
1010the Ada front end of GCC:
1011@itemize @bullet
1012@item
1013Bernard Banner
1014
1015@item
1016Romain Berrendonner
1017
1018@item
1019Geert Bosch
1020
1021@item
1022Emmanuel Briot
1023
1024@item
1025Joel Brobecker
1026
1027@item
1028Ben Brosgol
1029
1030@item
1031Vincent Celier
1032
1033@item
1034Arnaud Charlet
1035
1036@item
1037Chien Chieng
1038
1039@item
1040Cyrille Comar
1041
1042@item
1043Cyrille Crozes
1044
1045@item
1046Robert Dewar
1047
1048@item
1049Gary Dismukes
1050
1051@item
1052Robert Duff
1053
1054@item
1055Ed Falis
1056
1057@item
1058Ramon Fernandez
1059
1060@item
1061Sam Figueroa
1062
1063@item
1064Vasiliy Fofanov
1065
1066@item
1067Michael Friess
1068
1069@item
1070Franco Gasperoni
1071
1072@item
1073Ted Giering
1074
1075@item
1076Matthew Gingell
1077
1078@item
1079Laurent Guerby
1080
1081@item
1082Jerome Guitton
1083
1084@item
1085Olivier Hainque
1086
1087@item
1088Jerome Hugues
1089
1090@item
1091Hristian Kirtchev
1092
1093@item
1094Jerome Lambourg
1095
1096@item
1097Bruno Leclerc
1098
1099@item
1100Albert Lee
1101
1102@item
1103Sean McNeil
1104
1105@item
1106Javier Miranda
1107
1108@item
1109Laurent Nana
1110
1111@item
1112Pascal Obry
1113
1114@item
1115Dong-Ik Oh
1116
1117@item
1118Laurent Pautet
1119
1120@item
1121Brett Porter
1122
1123@item
1124Thomas Quinot
1125
1126@item
1127Nicolas Roche
1128
1129@item
1130Pat Rogers
1131
1132@item
1133Jose Ruiz
1134
1135@item
1136Douglas Rupp
1137
1138@item
1139Sergey Rybin
1140
1141@item
1142Gail Schenker
1143
1144@item
1145Ed Schonberg
1146
1147@item
1148Nicolas Setton
1149
1150@item
1151Samuel Tardieu
1152
1153@end itemize
1154
1155
1156The following people are recognized for their contributions of new
1157features, bug reports, testing and integration of classpath/libgcj for
1158GCC version 4.1:
1159@itemize @bullet
1160@item
1161Lillian Angel for @code{JTree} implementation and lots Free Swing
1162additions and bugfixes.
1163
1164@item
1165Wolfgang Baer for @code{GapContent} bugfixes.
1166
1167@item
1168Anthony Balkissoon for @code{JList}, Free Swing 1.5 updates and mouse event
1169fixes, lots of Free Swing work including @code{JTable} editing.
1170
1171@item
1172Stuart Ballard for RMI constant fixes.
1173
1174@item
1175Goffredo Baroncelli for @code{HTTPURLConnection} fixes.
1176
1177@item
1178Gary Benson for @code{MessageFormat} fixes.
1179
1180@item
1181Daniel Bonniot for @code{Serialization} fixes.
1182
1183@item
1184Chris Burdess for lots of gnu.xml and http protocol fixes, @code{StAX}
1185and @code{DOM xml:id} support.
1186
1187@item
1188Ka-Hing Cheung for @code{TreePath} and @code{TreeSelection} fixes.
1189
1190@item
1191Archie Cobbs for build fixes, VM interface updates,
1192@code{URLClassLoader} updates.
1193
1194@item
1195Kelley Cook for build fixes.
1196
1197@item
1198Martin Cordova for Suggestions for better @code{SocketTimeoutException}.
1199
1200@item
1201David Daney for @code{BitSet} bugfixes, @code{HttpURLConnection}
1202rewrite and improvements.
1203
1204@item
1205Thomas Fitzsimmons for lots of upgrades to the gtk+ AWT and Cairo 2D
1206support. Lots of imageio framework additions, lots of AWT and Free
1207Swing bugfixes.
1208
1209@item
1210Jeroen Frijters for @code{ClassLoader} and nio cleanups, serialization fixes,
1211better @code{Proxy} support, bugfixes and IKVM integration.
1212
1213@item
1214Santiago Gala for @code{AccessControlContext} fixes.
1215
1216@item
1217Nicolas Geoffray for @code{VMClassLoader} and @code{AccessController}
1218improvements.
1219
1220@item
1221David Gilbert for @code{basic} and @code{metal} icon and plaf support
1222and lots of documenting, Lots of Free Swing and metal theme
1223additions. @code{MetalIconFactory} implementation.
1224
1225@item
1226Anthony Green for @code{MIDI} framework, @code{ALSA} and @code{DSSI}
1227providers.
1228
1229@item
1230Andrew Haley for @code{Serialization} and @code{URLClassLoader} fixes,
1231gcj build speedups.
1232
1233@item
1234Kim Ho for @code{JFileChooser} implementation.
1235
1236@item
1237Andrew John Hughes for @code{Locale} and net fixes, URI RFC2986
1238updates, @code{Serialization} fixes, @code{Properties} XML support and
1239generic branch work, VMIntegration guide update.
1240
1241@item
1242Bastiaan Huisman for @code{TimeZone} bugfixing.
1243
1244@item
1245Andreas Jaeger for mprec updates.
1246
1247@item
1248Paul Jenner for better @option{-Werror} support.
1249
1250@item
1251Ito Kazumitsu for @code{NetworkInterface} implementation and updates.
1252
1253@item
1254Roman Kennke for @code{BoxLayout}, @code{GrayFilter} and
1255@code{SplitPane}, plus bugfixes all over. Lots of Free Swing work
1256including styled text.
1257
1258@item
1259Simon Kitching for @code{String} cleanups and optimization suggestions.
1260
1261@item
1262Michael Koch for configuration fixes, @code{Locale} updates, bug and
1263build fixes.
1264
1265@item
1266Guilhem Lavaux for configuration, thread and channel fixes and Kaffe
1267integration. JCL native @code{Pointer} updates. Logger bugfixes.
1268
1269@item
1270David Lichteblau for JCL support library global/local reference
1271cleanups.
1272
1273@item
1274Aaron Luchko for JDWP updates and documentation fixes.
1275
1276@item
1277Ziga Mahkovec for @code{Graphics2D} upgraded to Cairo 0.5 and new regex
1278features.
1279
1280@item
1281Sven de Marothy for BMP imageio support, CSS and @code{TextLayout}
1282fixes. @code{GtkImage} rewrite, 2D, awt, free swing and date/time fixes and
1283implementing the Qt4 peers.
1284
1285@item
1286Casey Marshall for crypto algorithm fixes, @code{FileChannel} lock,
1287@code{SystemLogger} and @code{FileHandler} rotate implementations, NIO
1288@code{FileChannel.map} support, security and policy updates.
1289
1290@item
1291Bryce McKinlay for RMI work.
1292
1293@item
1294Audrius Meskauskas for lots of Free Corba, RMI and HTML work plus
1295testing and documenting.
1296
1297@item
1298Kalle Olavi Niemitalo for build fixes.
1299
1300@item
1301Rainer Orth for build fixes.
1302
1303@item
1304Andrew Overholt for @code{File} locking fixes.
1305
1306@item
1307Ingo Proetel for @code{Image}, @code{Logger} and @code{URLClassLoader}
1308updates.
1309
1310@item
1311Olga Rodimina for @code{MenuSelectionManager} implementation.
1312
1313@item
1314Jan Roehrich for @code{BasicTreeUI} and @code{JTree} fixes.
1315
1316@item
1317Julian Scheid for documentation updates and gjdoc support.
1318
1319@item
1320Christian Schlichtherle for zip fixes and cleanups.
1321
1322@item
1323Robert Schuster for documentation updates and beans fixes,
1324@code{TreeNode} enumerations and @code{ActionCommand} and various
1325fixes, XML and URL, AWT and Free Swing bugfixes.
1326
1327@item
1328Keith Seitz for lots of JDWP work.
1329
1330@item
1331Christian Thalinger for 64-bit cleanups, Configuration and VM
1332interface fixes and @code{CACAO} integration, @code{fdlibm} updates.
1333
1334@item
1335Gael Thomas for @code{VMClassLoader} boot packages support suggestions.
1336
1337@item
1338Andreas Tobler for Darwin and Solaris testing and fixing, @code{Qt4}
1339support for Darwin/OS X, @code{Graphics2D} support, @code{gtk+}
1340updates.
1341
1342@item
1343Dalibor Topic for better @code{DEBUG} support, build cleanups and
1344Kaffe integration. @code{Qt4} build infrastructure, @code{SHA1PRNG}
1345and @code{GdkPixbugDecoder} updates.
1346
1347@item
1348Tom Tromey for Eclipse integration, generics work, lots of bugfixes
1349and gcj integration including coordinating The Big Merge.
1350
1351@item
1352Mark Wielaard for bugfixes, packaging and release management,
1353@code{Clipboard} implementation, system call interrupts and network
1354timeouts and @code{GdkPixpufDecoder} fixes.
1355
1356@end itemize
1357
1358
1359In addition to the above, all of which also contributed time and energy in
1360testing GCC, we would like to thank the following for their contributions
1361to testing:
1362
1363@itemize @bullet
1364@item
1365Michael Abd-El-Malek
1366
1367@item
1368Thomas Arend
1369
1370@item
1371Bonzo Armstrong
1372
1373@item
1374Steven Ashe
1375
1376@item
1377Chris Baldwin
1378
1379@item
1380David Billinghurst
1381
1382@item
1383Jim Blandy
1384
1385@item
1386Stephane Bortzmeyer
1387
1388@item
1389Horst von Brand
1390
1391@item
1392Frank Braun
1393
1394@item
1395Rodney Brown
1396
1397@item
1398Sidney Cadot
1399
1400@item
1401Bradford Castalia
1402
1403@item
1404Jonathan Corbet
1405
1406@item
1407Ralph Doncaster
1408
1409@item
1410Richard Emberson
1411
1412@item
1413Levente Farkas
1414
1415@item
1416Graham Fawcett
1417
1418@item
1419Mark Fernyhough
1420
1421@item
1422Robert A. French
1423
1424@item
1425J@"orgen Freyh
1426
1427@item
1428Mark K. Gardner
1429
1430@item
1431Charles-Antoine Gauthier
1432
1433@item
1434Yung Shing Gene
1435
1436@item
1437David Gilbert
1438
1439@item
1440Simon Gornall
1441
1442@item
1443Fred Gray
1444
1445@item
1446John Griffin
1447
1448@item
1449Patrik Hagglund
1450
1451@item
1452Phil Hargett
1453
1454@item
1455Amancio Hasty
1456
1457@item
1458Takafumi Hayashi
1459
1460@item
1461Bryan W. Headley
1462
1463@item
1464Kevin B. Hendricks
1465
1466@item
1467Joep Jansen
1468
1469@item
1470Christian Joensson
1471
1472@item
1473Michel Kern
1474
1475@item
1476David Kidd
1477
1478@item
1479Tobias Kuipers
1480
1481@item
1482Anand Krishnaswamy
1483
1484@item
1485A. O. V. Le Blanc
1486
1487@item
1488llewelly
1489
1490@item
1491Damon Love
1492
1493@item
1494Brad Lucier
1495
1496@item
1497Matthias Klose
1498
1499@item
1500Martin Knoblauch
1501
1502@item
1503Rick Lutowski
1504
1505@item
1506Jesse Macnish
1507
1508@item
1509Stefan Morrell
1510
1511@item
1512Anon A. Mous
1513
1514@item
1515Matthias Mueller
1516
1517@item
1518Pekka Nikander
1519
1520@item
1521Rick Niles
1522
1523@item
1524Jon Olson
1525
1526@item
1527Magnus Persson
1528
1529@item
1530Chris Pollard
1531
1532@item
1533Richard Polton
1534
1535@item
1536Derk Reefman
1537
1538@item
1539David Rees
1540
1541@item
1542Paul Reilly
1543
1544@item
1545Tom Reilly
1546
1547@item
1548Torsten Rueger
1549
1550@item
1551Danny Sadinoff
1552
1553@item
1554Marc Schifer
1555
1556@item
1557Erik Schnetter
1558
1559@item
1560Wayne K. Schroll
1561
1562@item
1563David Schuler
1564
1565@item
1566Vin Shelton
1567
1568@item
1569Tim Souder
1570
1571@item
1572Adam Sulmicki
1573
1574@item
1575Bill Thorson
1576
1577@item
1578George Talbot
1579
1580@item
1581Pedro A. M. Vazquez
1582
1583@item
1584Gregory Warnes
1585
1586@item
1587Ian Watson
1588
1589@item
1590David E. Young
1591
1592@item
1593And many others
1594@end itemize
1595
1596And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug
1597reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.
1598