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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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128239310SdimJohn Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
129239310Sdimprevious contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
130239310Sdim
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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.
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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