FSF GCC merge 02/23/03

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@node Contributors
@unnumbered Contributors to GCC
@cindex contributors

The GCC project would like to thank its many contributors.  Without them the
project would not have been nearly as successful as it has been.  Any omissions
in this list are accidental.  Feel free to contact
@email{law@@redhat.com} or @email{gerald@@pfeifer.com} if you have been left
out or some of your contributions are not listed.  Please keep this list in
alphabetical order.

@itemize @bullet

@item
Analog Devices helped implement the support for complex data types
and iterators.

@item
John David Anglin for threading-related fixes and improvements to
libstdc++-v3, and the HP-UX port.

@item
James van Artsdalen wrote the code that makes efficient use of
the Intel 80387 register stack.

@item
Abramo and Roberto Bagnara for the SysV68 Motorola 3300 Delta Series
port.

@item
Alasdair Baird for various bugfixes.

@item
Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end.

@item
Godmar Back for his Java improvements and encouragement.

@item
Scott Bambrough for help porting the Java compiler.

@item
Jon Beniston for his Win32 port of Java.

@item
Geoff Berry for his Java object serialization work and various patches.

@item
Eric Blake for helping to make GCJ and libgcj conform to the
specifications.

@item
Hans-J. Boehm for his @uref{http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/,,
garbage collector}, IA-64 libffi port, and other Java work.

@item
Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other
miscellaneous clean-ups.

@item
Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
improvements to our infrastructure for supporting new languages.  Chill
front end implementation.  Initial implementations of
cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++)
maintainer.  Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of GCJ.

@item
Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.

@item
Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.

@item
Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.

@item
Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.

@item
Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.

@item
Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.

@item
Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ.

@item
Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.

@item
Craig Burley for leadership of the Fortran effort.

@item
Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++.

@item
Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to
the string class, hard detective work on the frustrating localization
issues, and keeping up with the problem reports.

@item
John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.

@item
Steve Chamberlain for support for the Hitachi SH and H8 processors
and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.

@item
Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ.

@item
John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches.

@item
Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.

@item
Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.

@item
Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.

@item
The @uref{http://www.classpath.org,,GNU Classpath project}
for all of their merged runtime code.

@item
Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and
other random hacking.

@item
Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings.

@item
Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing.

@item
Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
the scenes hacking.

@item
Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.

@item
Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.

@item
Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
that print a copy of their source.

@item
Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.

@item
Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes.

@item
Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to g++, contributions and
maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3,
including valarray<>, complex<>, maintaining the numerics library
(including that pesky <limits> :-) and keeping up-to-date anything
to do with numbers.

@item
Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99
support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime
libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and
maintaining complex<>, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration
architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.

@item
Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.

@item
David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work
with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes, and
for doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands.

@item
Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in
libstdc++.

@item
Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery,
documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional
iostream bugfix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.

@item
Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.

@item
Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++
configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.

@item
Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.

@item
Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.

@item
Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.

@item
Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
and SPARC work.

@item
Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.

@item
Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portugese translation of the GCJ FAQ.

@item
Peter Gerwinski for various bugfixes and the Pascal front end.

@item
Kaveh Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee and
amazing work to make @samp{-W -Wall} useful.

@item
John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.

@item
Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.

@item
Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
via the steering committee.

@item
Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work.

@item
Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug our code.

@item
Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.

@item
Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
the support for System V Release 4.  He has also worked heavily on the
Intel 386 and 860 support.

@item
Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
warnings and assorted bugfixes.

@item
Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.

@item
Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.

@item
Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
the c30/c40 ports functional.  Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
fixes.

@item
Kate Hedstrom for staking the g77 folks with an initial testsuite.

@item
Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, and ia32 work, loop
opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
tons of patches.

@item
Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
the support for the Sony NEWS machine.

@item
Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
of testing an bugfixing, particularly of our configury code.

@item
Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.

@item
Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.

@item
Christian Iseli for various bugfixes.

@item
Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.

@item
Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.

@item
Andreas Jaeger for various fixes to the MIPS port

@item
Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
system.

@item
Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes and for her quality improvement
sidetracks.

@item
J. Kean Johnston for OpenServer support.

@item
Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
Kenner's "``toy'' language".

@item
Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation.

@item
Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.

@item
David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.

@item
Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bugfixes and optimizations of
strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.

@item
Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
and his automatic regression tester.

@item
Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with g++ and for a lot of early work
in just about every part of libstdc++.

@item
Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
MIL-STD-1750A@.

@item
Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
instruction attributes.  He also made changes to better support RISC
processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
elimination and delay slot scheduling.  Richard Kenner was also the
head maintainer of GCC for several years.

@item
Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and
maintaining binary releases for Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++
porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32.

@item
Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.

@item
Mark Klein for PA improvements.

@item
Thomas Koenig for various bugfixes.

@item
Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.

@item
Benjamin Kosnik for his g++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.

@item
Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
68020 system.

@item
Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.

@item
Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.

@item
Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.

@item
Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for improvements to demangler and various c++ fixes.

@item
Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
random work on the Java front end.

@item
Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU.

@item
Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and
patches.

@item
Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.

@item
Weiwen Liu for testing and various bugfixes.

@item
Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
runtime libraries.

@item
Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of
assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges.

@item
H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.

@item
Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.

@item
Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.

@item
Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking
improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and
direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and
implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler.

@item
Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.

@item
Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and
improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.

@item
All of the Mauve project
@uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/mauve/THANKS?rev=1.2&cvsroot=mauve&only_with_tag=HEAD,,contributors},
for Java test code.

@item
Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.

@item
Adam Megacz for his work on the Win32 port of GCJ.

@item
Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.

@item
Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
the g++ effort.

@item
David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
developers.

@item
Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.

@item
Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bugfixes, and turning the
entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.

@item
Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.x.

@item
Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.

@item
Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.

@item
Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
services, ftp services, etc etc.  Doing all this work on scrap paper and
the backs of envelopes would have been... difficult.

@item
Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
Linux kernels.

@item
Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.

@item
David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements.

@item
Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.

@item
Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.

@item
Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.

@item
Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.

@item
Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship
through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale
infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project
documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth).  Later, more work on
MT-safe string and shadow headers.

@item
Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.

@item
NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
language.

@item
Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.

@item
Geoff Noer for this work on getting cygwin native builds working.

@item
David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
improvements.

@item
Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy.

@item
Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.

@item
Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to our o32
ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
clean-ups and porting work, etc.

@item
Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.

@item
Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and
continued Java maintainership.

@item
Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.

@item
Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
taking care of documentation maintenance in general.

@item
Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
libraries.

@item
Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
cleanups in the compiler.

@item
Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT.

@item
David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
port.

@item
Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
hacking.

@item
Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD
port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical
threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems.

@item
Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.

@item
Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.

@item
Ken Rose for fixes to our delay slot filling code.

@item
Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.

@item
Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits,
Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support.

@item
Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.

@item
Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.

@item
Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ.

@item
Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.

@item
William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.

@item
Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
GCC 2.95.3.

@item
Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++ -- especially application
testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release
criteria -- and libstdc++ header file tweaks.

@item
Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.

@item
Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.

@item
Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
contributions and RTEMS testing.

@item
Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.

@item
Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.

@item
Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from
the LWG (thereby keeping us in line with updates from the ISO).

@item
Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
for linux.

@item
Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.

@item
Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.

@item
Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.

@item
Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++
testsuite entries.

@item
Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique.

@item
Richard Stallman, for writing the original gcc and launching the GNU project.

@item
Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.

@item
Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.

@item
Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.

@item
Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.

@item
John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.

@item
Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, g++ contributions over the years and more
recently his vxworks contributions

@item
Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.

@item
Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.

@item
Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking,
fixincludes, etc.

@item
Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU.

@item
Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.

@item
Philipp Thomas for random bugfixes throughout the compiler

@item
Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD.

@item
Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.

@item
Michael Tiemann for random bugfixes, the first instruction scheduler,
initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
machine description work, delay slot scheduling.

@item
Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.

@item
Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.

@item
Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
definitions, and of the VAX machine description.

@item
Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java
contributions and libgcj maintainership.

@item
Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
types.

@item
Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes.

@item
Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their
associated configure steps.

@item
Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.

@item
Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML
guidance.

@item
Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
in time for GCC 3.0.

@item
Krister Walfridsson for random bugfixes.

@item
Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files
work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time
header tree.

@item
John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.

@item
Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bugfixes.

@item
Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ.

@item
Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.

@item
Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with
Classpath.

@item
Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.

@item
Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.

@item
Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
reduction and other loop optimizations.

@item
Carlo Wood for various fixes.

@item
Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.

@item
Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).

@item
Kevin Zachmann helped ported GCC to the Tahoe.

@item
Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.

@end itemize


We'd also like to thank the folks who have contributed time and energy in
testing GCC:

@itemize @bullet
@item
Michael Abd-El-Malek

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Thomas Arend

@item
Bonzo Armstrong

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Steven Ashe

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Chris Baldwin

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David Billinghurst

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Jim Blandy

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Stephane Bortzmeyer

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Horst von Brand

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Frank Braun

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Rodney Brown

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Joe Buck

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Craig Burley

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Sidney Cadot

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Bradford Castalia

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Ralph Doncaster

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Ulrich Drepper

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David Edelsohn

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Richard Emberson

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Levente Farkas

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Graham Fawcett

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Robert A. French

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J@"orgen Freyh

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Mark K. Gardner

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Charles-Antoine Gauthier

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Yung Shing Gene

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Kaveh Ghazi

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David Gilbert

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Simon Gornall

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Fred Gray

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John Griffin

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Patrik Hagglund

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Phil Hargett

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Amancio Hasty

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Bryan W. Headley

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Kate Hedstrom

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Richard Henderson

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Kevin B. Hendricks

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Manfred Hollstein

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Kamil Iskra

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Joep Jansen

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Christian Joensson

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David Kidd

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Tobias Kuipers

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Anand Krishnaswamy

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Jeff Law

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Robert Lipe

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llewelly

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Damon Love

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Dave Love

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H.J. Lu

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Brad Lucier

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Mumit Khan

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Matthias Klose

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Martin Knoblauch

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Jesse Macnish

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David Miller

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Toon Moene

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Stefan Morrell

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Anon A. Mous

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Matthias Mueller

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Pekka Nikander

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Alexandre Oliva

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Jon Olson

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Magnus Persson

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Chris Pollard

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Richard Polton

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David Rees

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Paul Reilly

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Tom Reilly

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Loren J. Rittle

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Torsten Rueger

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Danny Sadinoff

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Marc Schifer

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Peter Schmid

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David Schuler

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Vin Shelton

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Franz Sirl

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Tim Souder

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Mike Stump

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Adam Sulmicki

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George Talbot

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Gregory Warnes

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Carlo Wood

@item
David E. Young

@item
And many others
@end itemize

And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug
reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.