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1239310Sdim@c Copyright (C) 1988,1989,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000, 2239310Sdim@c 2001,2002,2003,2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 3239310Sdim@c This is part of the GCC manual. 4239310Sdim@c For copying conditions, see the file gcc.texi. 5239310Sdim 6239310Sdim@node Contributors 7239310Sdim@unnumbered Contributors to GCC 8239310Sdim@cindex contributors 9239310Sdim 10239310SdimThe GCC project would like to thank its many contributors. Without them the 11239310Sdimproject would not have been nearly as successful as it has been. Any omissions 12239310Sdimin this list are accidental. Feel free to contact 13239310Sdim@email{law@@redhat.com} or @email{gerald@@pfeifer.com} if you have been left 14239310Sdimout or some of your contributions are not listed. Please keep this list in 15239310Sdimalphabetical order. 16239310Sdim 17239310Sdim@itemize @bullet 18239310Sdim 19249423Sdim@item 20239310SdimAnalog Devices helped implement the support for complex data types 21249423Sdimand iterators. 22249423Sdim 23239310Sdim@item 24249423SdimJohn David Anglin for threading-related fixes and improvements to 25239310Sdimlibstdc++-v3, and the HP-UX port. 26239310Sdim 27239310Sdim@item 28249423SdimJames van Artsdalen wrote the code that makes efficient use of 29239310Sdimthe Intel 80387 register stack. 30239310Sdim 31249423Sdim@item 32239310SdimAbramo and Roberto Bagnara for the SysV68 Motorola 3300 Delta Series 33239310Sdimport. 34239310Sdim 35239310Sdim@item 36239310SdimAlasdair Baird for various bug fixes. 37239310Sdim 38239310Sdim@item 39239310SdimGiovanni Bajo for analyzing lots of complicated C++ problem reports. 40239310Sdim 41239310Sdim@item 42239310SdimPeter Barada for his work to improve code generation for new 43239310SdimColdFire cores. 44239310Sdim 45239310Sdim@item 46249423SdimGerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end. 47249423Sdim 48239310Sdim@item 49239310SdimGodmar Back for his Java improvements and encouragement. 50239310Sdim 51239310Sdim@item 52239310SdimScott Bambrough for help porting the Java compiler. 53239310Sdim 54249423Sdim@item 55239310SdimWolfgang Bangerth for processing tons of bug reports. 56239310Sdim 57239310Sdim@item 58239310SdimJon Beniston for his Microsoft Windows port of Java. 59239310Sdim 60239310Sdim@item 61239310SdimDaniel Berlin for better DWARF2 support, faster/better optimizations, 62239310Sdimimproved alias analysis, plus migrating GCC to Bugzilla. 63239310Sdim 64239310Sdim@item 65239310SdimGeoff Berry for his Java object serialization work and various patches. 66249423Sdim 67239310Sdim@item 68239310SdimEric Blake for helping to make GCJ and libgcj conform to the 69239310Sdimspecifications. 70239310Sdim 71239310Sdim@item 72239310SdimSegher Boessenkool for various fixes. 73239310Sdim 74239310Sdim@item 75239310SdimHans-J. Boehm for his @uref{http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/,, 76239310Sdimgarbage collector}, IA-64 libffi port, and other Java work. 77239310Sdim 78239310Sdim@item 79239310SdimNeil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other 80239310Sdimmiscellaneous clean-ups. 81239310Sdim 82239310Sdim@item 83239310SdimEric Botcazou for fixing middle- and backend bugs left and right. 84239310Sdim 85239310Sdim@item 86239310SdimPer Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various 87239310Sdimimprovements to the infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill 88239310Sdimfront end implementation. Initial implementations of 89239310Sdimcpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++) 90249423Sdimmaintainer. Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of GCJ. 91239310Sdim 92239310Sdim@item 93239310SdimDevon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe. 94251662Sdim 95239310Sdim@item 96239310SdimDon Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions. 97239310Sdim 98239310Sdim@item 99239310SdimDave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill. 100239310Sdim 101239310Sdim@item 102239310SdimRobert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems. 103249423Sdim 104239310Sdim@item 105239310SdimChristian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination. 106239310Sdim 107239310Sdim@item 108239310SdimHerman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes. 109249423Sdim 110239310Sdim@item 111249423SdimJoerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ. 112249423Sdim 113249423Sdim@item 114239310SdimJoe Buck for his direction via the steering committee. 115249423Sdim 116239310Sdim@item 117249423SdimCraig Burley for leadership of the Fortran effort. 118239310Sdim 119249423Sdim@item 120239310SdimStephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++. 121239310Sdim 122239310Sdim@item 123239310SdimPaolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to 124249423Sdimthe C++ strings, streambufs and formatted I/O, hard detective work on 125249423Sdimthe frustrating localization issues, and keeping up with the problem reports. 126239310Sdim 127249423Sdim@item 128239310SdimJohn Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements, 129239310Sdimprevious contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc. 130239310Sdim 131251662Sdim@item 132239310SdimStephane Carrez for 68HC11 and 68HC12 ports. 133239310Sdim 134239310Sdim@item 135239310SdimSteve Chamberlain for support for the Renesas SH and H8 processors 136239310Sdimand the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes. 137239310Sdim 138239310Sdim@item 139249423SdimGlenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ. 140239310Sdim 141239310Sdim@item 142249423SdimJohn-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches. 143239310Sdim 144239310Sdim@item 145239310SdimScott Christley for his Objective-C contributions. 146239310Sdim 147239310Sdim@item 148239310SdimEric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups. 149239310Sdim 150239310Sdim@item 151239310SdimBranko Cibej for more warning contributions. 152249423Sdim 153239310Sdim@item 154239310SdimThe @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/,,GNU Classpath project} 155239310Sdimfor all of their merged runtime code. 156251662Sdim 157251662Sdim@item 158239310SdimNick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and 159239310Sdimother random hacking. 160251662Sdim 161239310Sdim@item 162239310SdimMichael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings. 163239310Sdim 164239310Sdim@item 165239310SdimR. Kelley Cook for making GCC buildable from a read-only directory as 166249423Sdimwell as other miscellaneous build process and documentation clean-ups. 167239310Sdim 168239310Sdim@item 169249423SdimRalf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing. 170249423Sdim 171249423Sdim@item 172249423SdimStan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind 173239310Sdimthe scenes hacking. 174239310Sdim 175239310Sdim@item 176239310SdimAlex Crain provided changes for the 3b1. 177239310Sdim 178239310Sdim@item 179239310SdimIan Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port. 180239310Sdim 181239310Sdim@item 182249423SdimPaul Dale for his work to add uClinux platform support to the 183249423Sdimm68k backend. 184239310Sdim 185239310Sdim@item 186239310SdimDario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs 187239310Sdimthat print a copy of their source. 188239310Sdim 189239310Sdim@item 190239310SdimRussell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++. 191239310Sdim 192239310Sdim@item 193239310SdimMo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes. 194239310Sdim 195239310Sdim@item 196239310SdimDJ Delorie for the DJGPP port, build and libiberty maintenance, and 197239310Sdimvarious bug fixes. 198249423Sdim 199239310Sdim@item 200249423SdimGabriel Dos Reis for contributions to G++, contributions and 201249423Sdimmaintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3, 202249423Sdimincluding valarray<>, complex<>, maintaining the numerics library 203239310Sdim(including that pesky <limits> :-) and keeping up-to-date anything 204249423Sdimto do with numbers. 205239310Sdim 206239310Sdim@item 207239310SdimUlrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99 208251662Sdimsupport, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime 209251662Sdimlibraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and 210239310Sdimmaintaining complex<>, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration 211239310Sdimarchitecture, libio maintenance, and early math work. 212239310Sdim 213251662Sdim@item 214239310SdimZdenek Dvorak for a new loop unroller and various fixes. 215249423Sdim 216239310Sdim@item 217239310SdimRichard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@. 218239310Sdim 219239310Sdim@item 220239310SdimDavid Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work 221249423Sdimwith the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes, 222239310Sdimdoing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands, and for 223239310Sdimensuring GCC properly keeps working on AIX. 224239310Sdim 225239310Sdim@item 226239310SdimKevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in 227239310Sdimlibstdc++. 228239310Sdim 229239310Sdim@item 230239310SdimPhil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery, 231239310Sdimdocumentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional 232239310Sdimiostream bug fix, and work on shared library symbol versioning. 233239310Sdim 234239310Sdim@item 235239310SdimPaul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@. 236239310Sdim 237239310Sdim@item 238239310SdimMark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++ 239251662Sdimconfiguration support for locales and fstream-related fixes. 240251662Sdim 241239310Sdim@item 242239310SdimVadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams. 243239310Sdim 244239310Sdim@item 245239310SdimChristian Ehrhardt for dealing with bug reports. 246239310Sdim 247239310Sdim@item 248239310SdimBen Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its 249239310Sdimown subdirectory and for his work on autoconf. 250239310Sdim 251239310Sdim@item 252239310SdimMarc Espie for OpenBSD support. 253239310Sdim 254251662Sdim@item 255239310SdimDoug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r, 256239310Sdimand SPARC work. 257239310Sdim 258239310Sdim@item 259239310SdimChristopher Faylor for his work on the Cygwin port and for caring and 260239310Sdimfeeding the gcc.gnu.org box and saving its users tons of spam. 261249423Sdim 262249423Sdim@item 263251662SdimFred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes. 264249423Sdim 265251662Sdim@item 266251662SdimIvan Fontes Garcia for the Portugese translation of the GCJ FAQ. 267239310Sdim 268239310Sdim@item 269239310SdimPeter Gerwinski for various bug fixes and the Pascal front end. 270249423Sdim 271251662Sdim@item 272239310SdimKaveh Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee, 273239310Sdimamazing work to make @samp{-W -Wall} useful, and continuously testing 274239310SdimGCC on a plethora of platforms. 275239310Sdim 276239310Sdim@item 277239310SdimJohn Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java. 278239310Sdim 279239310Sdim@item 280249423SdimJudy Goldberg for c++ contributions. 281249423Sdim 282249423Sdim@item 283239310SdimTorbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite, 284239310Sdimmultiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long 285239310Sdimsupport, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction 286239310Sdimvia the steering committee. 287239310Sdim 288239310Sdim@item 289239310SdimAnthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work. 290239310Sdim 291239310Sdim@item 292239310SdimStu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug Java code. 293239310Sdim 294239310Sdim@item 295239310SdimMichael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11. 296239310Sdim 297239310Sdim@item 298239310SdimRon Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize} 299239310Sdimtools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of 300239310Sdimthe support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the 301239310SdimIntel 386 and 860 support. 302239310Sdim 303@item 304Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new 305warnings and assorted bug fixes. 306 307@item 308Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts. 309 310@item 311Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300. 312 313@item 314Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get 315the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and 316fixes. 317 318@item 319Dara Hazeghi for wading through myriads of target-specific bug reports. 320 321@item 322Kate Hedstrom for staking the G77 folks with an initial testsuite. 323 324@item 325Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, ia32, and ia64 work, loop 326opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for 327years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing 328tons of patches. 329 330@item 331Aldy Hernandez for working on the PowerPC port, SIMD support, and 332various fixes. 333 334@item 335Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed 336the support for the Sony NEWS machine. 337 338@item 339Kazu Hirata for caring and feeding the Renesas H8/300 port and various fixes. 340 341@item 342Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots 343of testing and bug fixing, particularly of GCC configury code. 344 345@item 346Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches. 347 348@item 349Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements. 350 351@item 352Falk Hueffner for working on C and optimization bug reports. 353 354@item 355Bernardo Innocenti for his m68k work, including merging of 356ColdFire improvements and uClinux support. 357 358@item 359Christian Iseli for various bug fixes. 360 361@item 362Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking. 363 364@item 365Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing. 366 367@item 368Andreas Jaeger for testing and benchmarking of GCC and various bug fixes. 369 370@item 371Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well 372as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build 373system. 374 375@item 376Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes, her quality improvement 377sidetracks, and web page maintenance. 378 379@item 380Kean Johnston for SCO OpenServer support and various fixes. 381 382@item 383Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard 384Kenner's "``toy'' language". 385 386@item 387Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation. 388 389@item 390Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target. 391 392@item 393David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@. 394 395@item 396Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bug fixes and optimizations of 397strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes. 398 399@item 400Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux 401and his automatic regression tester. 402 403@item 404Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with G++ and for a lot of early work 405in just about every part of libstdc++. 406 407@item 408Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the 409MIL-STD-1750A@. 410 411@item 412Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research 413Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC 414Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for 415instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC 416processors including changes to common subexpression elimination, 417strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition 418code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer 419elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the 420head maintainer of GCC for several years. 421 422@item 423Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and 424maintaining binary releases for Microsoft Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++ 425porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32. 426 427@item 428Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support. 429 430@item 431Mark Klein for PA improvements. 432 433@item 434Thomas Koenig for various bug fixes. 435 436@item 437Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code. 438 439@item 440Benjamin Kosnik for his G++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort. 441 442@item 443Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions 44468020 system. 445 446@item 447Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the 448entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases, 449handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have 450fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking. 451 452@item 453Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping 454with analysis and improvements of x86 performance. 455 456@item 457Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer. 458 459@item 460Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for C++ improvements including template as template 461parameter support, and many C++ fixes. 462 463@item 464Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and 465random work on the Java front end. 466 467@item 468Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU. 469 470@item 471Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and 472patches. 473 474@item 475Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc. 476 477@item 478Weiwen Liu for testing and various bug fixes. 479 480@item 481Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and 482runtime libraries. 483 484@item 485Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure, 486various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of 487assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges. 488 489@item 490H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86 491bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working. 492 493@item 494Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers. 495 496@item 497Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system, 498various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc. 499 500@item 501Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking 502improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and 503direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and 504implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler. 505 506@item 507Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu. 508 509@item 510Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and 511improvements, and string clean up and testsuites. 512 513@item 514All of the Mauve project 515@uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/mauve/THANKS?rev=1.2&cvsroot=mauve&only_with_tag=HEAD,,contributors}, 516for Java test code. 517 518@item 519Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements. 520 521@item 522Adam Megacz for his work on the Microsoft Windows port of GCJ. 523 524@item 525Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS, 526powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking. 527 528@item 529Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading 530the G++ effort. 531 532@item 533David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of 534SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel 535developers. 536 537@item 538Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines. 539 540@item 541Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bug fixes, and turning the 542entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible. 543 544@item 545Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of 546C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements, 547ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.x. 548 549@item 550Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing. 551 552@item 553Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran 554maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast. 555 556@item 557Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services 558on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web 559services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and 560the backs of envelopes would have been... difficult. 561 562@item 563Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her 564way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC 565Linux kernels. 566 567@item 568Mike Moreton for his various Java patches. 569 570@item 571David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements, and for the initial 572IA-64 port. 573 574@item 575Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in 576cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider 577than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support. 578 579@item 580Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues. 581 582@item 583Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port. 584 585@item 586Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO 587C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation. 588 589@item 590Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship 591through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale 592infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project 593documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on 594MT-safe string and shadow headers. 595 596@item 597Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++. 598 599@item 600Nathanael Nerode for cleaning up the configuration/build process. 601 602@item 603NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C 604language. 605 606@item 607Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search 608engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes. 609 610@item 611Geoff Noer for this work on getting cygwin native builds working. 612 613@item 614Diego Novillo for his SPEC performance tracking web pages and assorted 615fixes in the middle end and various back ends. 616 617@item 618David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM, 619FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure 620improvements. 621 622@item 623Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and 624amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy. 625 626@item 627Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes. 628 629@item 630Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to GCC's o32 631ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration 632clean-ups and porting work, etc. 633 634@item 635Hartmut Penner for work on the s390 port. 636 637@item 638Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8. 639 640@item 641Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and 642continued Java maintainership. 643 644@item 645Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port. 646 647@item 648Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing 649out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and 650taking care of documentation maintenance in general. 651 652@item 653Andrew Pinski for processing bug reports by the dozen. 654 655@item 656Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime 657libraries. 658 659@item 660Jerry Quinn for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O. 661 662@item 663Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various 664cleanups in the compiler. 665 666@item 667Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT. 668 669@item 670David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC 671port. 672 673@item 674Volker Reichelt for keeping up with the problem reports. 675 676@item 677Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload 678hacking. 679 680@item 681Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD 682port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical 683threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems, 684as well as keeping GCC properly working on FreeBSD and continuous testing. 685 686@item 687Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports. 688 689@item 690Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work. 691 692@item 693Ken Rose for fixes to GCC's delay slot filling code. 694 695@item 696Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor. 697 698@item 699P@'etur Run@'olfsson for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O and 700large file support in C++ filebuf. 701 702@item 703Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits, 704Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support. 705 706@item 707Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator. 708 709@item 710Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300. 711 712@item 713Roger Sayle for improvements to constant folding and GCC's RTL optimizers 714as well as for fixing numerous bugs. 715 716@item 717Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ. 718 719@item 720Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha. 721 722@item 723William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support. 724 725@item 726Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major 727work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for 728GCC 2.95.3. 729 730@item 731Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++ -- especially application 732testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release 733criteria -- and libstdc++ header file tweaks. 734 735@item 736Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches. 737 738@item 739Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port. 740 741@item 742Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS 743contributions and RTEMS testing. 744 745@item 746Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements. 747 748@item 749Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some 750code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant 751folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports. 752 753@item 754Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from 755the LWG (thereby keeping GCC in line with updates from the ISO). 756 757@item 758Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable 759for GNU/Linux. 760 761@item 762Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking. 763 764@item 765Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines. 766 767@item 768Danny Smith for his major efforts on the Mingw (and Cygwin) ports. 769 770@item 771Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support. 772 773@item 774Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++ 775testsuite entries. 776 777@item 778Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique. 779 780@item 781Richard Stallman, for writing the original GCC and launching the GNU project. 782 783@item 784Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for 785Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description. 786 787@item 788Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements. 789 790@item 791Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer. 792 793@item 794Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements. 795 796@item 797John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes. 798 799@item 800Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, G++ contributions over the years and more 801recently his vxworks contributions 802 803@item 804Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement. 805 806@item 807Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms. 808 809@item 810Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking, 811fixincludes, etc. 812 813@item 814Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU. 815 816@item 817Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux. 818 819@item 820Philipp Thomas for random bug fixes throughout the compiler 821 822@item 823Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD. 824 825@item 826Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C 827language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter. 828 829@item 830Michael Tiemann for random bug fixes, the first instruction scheduler, 831initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k 832machine description work, delay slot scheduling. 833 834@item 835Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin. 836 837@item 838Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support. 839 840@item 841Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL 842definitions, and of the VAX machine description. 843 844@item 845Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java 846contributions and libgcj maintainership. 847 848@item 849Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor 850types. 851 852@item 853Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes. 854 855@item 856Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their 857associated configure steps. 858 859@item 860Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports. 861 862@item 863Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML 864guidance. 865 866@item 867Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo 868in time for GCC 3.0. 869 870@item 871Krister Walfridsson for random bug fixes. 872 873@item 874Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files 875work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time 876header tree. 877 878@item 879John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator, 880related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation, 881value range propagation and other work, WE32k port. 882 883@item 884Ulrich Weigand for work on the s390 port. 885 886@item 887Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bug fixes. 888 889@item 890Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ. 891 892@item 893Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io. 894 895@item 896Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with 897Classpath. 898 899@item 900Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe. 901 902@item 903Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port. 904 905@item 906Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard 907problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength 908reduction and other loop optimizations. 909 910@item 911Carlo Wood for various fixes. 912 913@item 914Tom Wood for work on the m88k port. 915 916@item 917Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine 918description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro). 919 920@item 921Kevin Zachmann helped ported GCC to the Tahoe. 922 923@item 924Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix. 925 926@end itemize 927 928In addition to the above, all of which also contributed time and energy in 929testing GCC, we would like to thank the following for their contributions 930to testing: 931 932@itemize @bullet 933@item 934Michael Abd-El-Malek 935 936@item 937Thomas Arend 938 939@item 940Bonzo Armstrong 941 942@item 943Steven Ashe 944 945@item 946Chris Baldwin 947 948@item 949David Billinghurst 950 951@item 952Jim Blandy 953 954@item 955Stephane Bortzmeyer 956 957@item 958Horst von Brand 959 960@item 961Frank Braun 962 963@item 964Rodney Brown 965 966@item 967Sidney Cadot 968 969@item 970Bradford Castalia 971 972@item 973Ralph Doncaster 974 975@item 976Richard Emberson 977 978@item 979Levente Farkas 980 981@item 982Graham Fawcett 983 984@item 985Robert A. French 986 987@item 988J@"orgen Freyh 989 990@item 991Mark K. Gardner 992 993@item 994Charles-Antoine Gauthier 995 996@item 997Yung Shing Gene 998 999@item 1000David Gilbert 1001 1002@item 1003Simon Gornall 1004 1005@item 1006Fred Gray 1007 1008@item 1009John Griffin 1010 1011@item 1012Patrik Hagglund 1013 1014@item 1015Phil Hargett 1016 1017@item 1018Amancio Hasty 1019 1020@item 1021Bryan W. Headley 1022 1023@item 1024Kevin B. Hendricks 1025 1026@item 1027Joep Jansen 1028 1029@item 1030Christian Joensson 1031 1032@item 1033David Kidd 1034 1035@item 1036Tobias Kuipers 1037 1038@item 1039Anand Krishnaswamy 1040 1041@item 1042llewelly 1043 1044@item 1045Damon Love 1046 1047@item 1048Brad Lucier 1049 1050@item 1051Matthias Klose 1052 1053@item 1054Martin Knoblauch 1055 1056@item 1057Jesse Macnish 1058 1059@item 1060Stefan Morrell 1061 1062@item 1063Anon A. Mous 1064 1065@item 1066Matthias Mueller 1067 1068@item 1069Pekka Nikander 1070 1071@item 1072Jon Olson 1073 1074@item 1075Magnus Persson 1076 1077@item 1078Chris Pollard 1079 1080@item 1081Richard Polton 1082 1083@item 1084David Rees 1085 1086@item 1087Paul Reilly 1088 1089@item 1090Tom Reilly 1091 1092@item 1093Torsten Rueger 1094 1095@item 1096Danny Sadinoff 1097 1098@item 1099Marc Schifer 1100 1101@item 1102David Schuler 1103 1104@item 1105Vin Shelton 1106 1107@item 1108Tim Souder 1109 1110@item 1111Adam Sulmicki 1112 1113@item 1114George Talbot 1115 1116@item 1117Gregory Warnes 1118 1119@item 1120David E. Young 1121 1122@item 1123And many others 1124@end itemize 1125 1126And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug 1127reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place. 1128