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2 @c This is part of the GCC manual.
3 @c For copying conditions, see the file gcc.texi.
6 @unnumbered Contributors to GCC
9 The GCC project would like to thank its many contributors. Without them the
10 project would not have been nearly as successful as it has been. Any omissions
11 in this list are accidental. Feel free to contact
12 @email{law@@redhat.com} or @email{gerald@@pfeifer.com} if you have been left
13 out or some of your contributions are not listed. Please keep this list in
19 Analog Devices helped implement the support for complex data types
23 John David Anglin for threading-related fixes and improvements to
24 libstdc++-v3, and the HP-UX port.
27 James van Artsdalen wrote the code that makes efficient use of
28 the Intel 80387 register stack.
31 Abramo and Roberto Bagnara for the SysV68 Motorola 3300 Delta Series
35 Alasdair Baird for various bug fixes.
38 Giovanni Bajo for analyzing lots of complicated C++ problem reports.
41 Peter Barada for his work to improve code generation for new
45 Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end.
48 Godmar Back for his Java improvements and encouragement.
51 Scott Bambrough for help porting the Java compiler.
54 Wolfgang Bangerth for processing tons of bug reports.
57 Jon Beniston for his Microsoft Windows port of Java and port to Lattice Mico32.
60 Daniel Berlin for better DWARF 2 support, faster/better optimizations,
61 improved alias analysis, plus migrating GCC to Bugzilla.
64 Geoff Berry for his Java object serialization work and various patches.
67 David Binderman tests weekly snapshots of GCC trunk against Fedora Rawhide
68 for several architectures.
71 Laurynas Biveinis for memory management work and DJGPP port fixes.
74 Uros Bizjak for the implementation of x87 math built-in functions and
75 for various middle end and i386 back end improvements and bug fixes.
78 Eric Blake for helping to make GCJ and libgcj conform to the
82 Janne Blomqvist for contributions to GNU Fortran.
85 Hans-J. Boehm for his garbage collector, IA-64 libffi port, and other
89 Segher Boessenkool for helping maintain the PowerPC port and the
90 instruction combiner plus various contributions to the middle end.
93 Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other
94 miscellaneous clean-ups.
97 Steven Bosscher for integrating the GNU Fortran front end into GCC and for
98 contributing to the tree-ssa branch.
101 Eric Botcazou for fixing middle- and backend bugs left and right.
104 Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
105 improvements to the infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
106 front end implementation. Initial implementations of
107 cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++)
108 maintainer. Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of GCJ@.
111 Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
114 Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
117 James Bowman for the FT32 port.
120 Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
123 Paul Brook for work on the ARM architecture and maintaining GNU Fortran.
126 Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
129 Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
132 Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
135 Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ@.
138 Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee from its creation
142 Craig Burley for leadership of the G77 Fortran effort.
145 Tobias Burnus for contributions to GNU Fortran.
148 Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++.
151 Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to
152 the C++ strings, streambufs and formatted I/O, hard detective work on
153 the frustrating localization issues, and keeping up with the problem reports.
156 John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
157 previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
160 Stephane Carrez for 68HC11 and 68HC12 ports.
163 Steve Chamberlain for support for the Renesas SH and H8 processors
164 and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.
167 Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ@.
170 John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches.
173 Denis Chertykov for contributing and maintaining the AVR port, the first GCC port
174 for an 8-bit architecture.
177 Kito Cheng for his work on the RISC-V port, including bringing up the test
178 suite and maintenance.
181 Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
184 Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.
187 Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
190 The @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/,,GNU Classpath project}
191 for all of their merged runtime code.
194 Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r, msp430 rx work,
195 @option{--help}, and other random hacking.
198 Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings.
201 R. Kelley Cook for making GCC buildable from a read-only directory as
202 well as other miscellaneous build process and documentation clean-ups.
205 Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bug fixing.
208 Fran@,{c}ois-Xavier Coudert for contributions to GNU Fortran.
211 Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
215 Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
218 Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
221 Paul Dale for his work to add uClinux platform support to the
225 Palmer Dabbelt for his work maintaining the RISC-V port.
228 Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
229 that print a copy of their source.
232 Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.
235 Bud Davis for work on the G77 and GNU Fortran compilers.
238 Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes.
241 Jerry DeLisle for contributions to GNU Fortran.
244 DJ Delorie for the DJGPP port, build and libiberty maintenance,
245 various bug fixes, and the M32C, MeP, MSP430, and RL78 ports.
248 Arnaud Desitter for helping to debug GNU Fortran.
251 Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to G++, contributions and
252 maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3,
253 including @code{valarray<>}, @code{complex<>}, maintaining the numerics library
254 (including that pesky @code{<limits>} :-) and keeping up-to-date anything
258 Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99
259 support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime
260 libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and
261 maintaining @code{complex<>}, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration
262 architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.
265 Fran@,{c}ois Dumont for his work on libstdc++-v3, especially maintaining and
266 improving @code{debug-mode} and associative and unordered containers.
269 Zdenek Dvorak for a new loop unroller and various fixes.
272 Michael Eager for his work on the Xilinx MicroBlaze port.
275 Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
278 David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work
279 with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes,
280 doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands, and for
281 ensuring GCC properly keeps working on AIX@.
284 Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in
288 Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery,
289 documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional
290 iostream bug fix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
293 Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
296 Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++
297 configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.
300 Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.
303 Christian Ehrhardt for dealing with bug reports.
306 Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
307 own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
310 Revital Eres for work on the PowerPC 750CL port.
313 Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
316 Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
320 Christopher Faylor for his work on the Cygwin port and for caring and
321 feeding the gcc.gnu.org box and saving its users tons of spam.
324 Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
327 Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portuguese translation of the GCJ FAQ@.
330 Peter Gerwinski for various bug fixes and the Pascal front end.
333 Kaveh R.@: Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee, amazing
334 work to make @samp{-W -Wall -W* -Werror} useful, and
335 testing GCC on a plethora of platforms. Kaveh extends his gratitude to
336 the CAIP Center at Rutgers University for providing him with computing
337 resources to work on Free Software from the late 1980s to 2010.
340 John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.
343 Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
346 Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
347 multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
348 support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
349 via the steering committee.
352 Jonny Grant for improvements to @code{collect2's} @option{--help} documentation.
355 Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions, the moxie port, and
359 Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug Java code.
362 Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
365 Richard Biener for his ongoing middle-end contributions and bug fixes
366 and for release management.
369 Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
370 tools, the support for DWARF 1 symbolic debugging information, and much of
371 the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
372 Intel 386 and 860 support.
375 Sumanth Gundapaneni for contributing the CR16 port.
378 Mostafa Hagog for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS) and post reload GCSE@.
381 Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
382 warnings and assorted bug fixes.
385 Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
388 Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
391 Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
392 the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
396 Dara Hazeghi for wading through myriads of target-specific bug reports.
399 Kate Hedstrom for staking the G77 folks with an initial testsuite.
402 Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, ia32, and ia64 work, loop
403 opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
404 years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
408 Aldy Hernandez for working on the PowerPC port, SIMD support, and
412 Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
413 the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
416 Kazu Hirata for caring and feeding the Renesas H8/300 port and various fixes.
419 Katherine Holcomb for work on GNU Fortran.
422 Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
423 of testing and bug fixing, particularly of GCC configury code.
426 Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
429 Mat Hostetter for work on the TILE-Gx and TILEPro ports.
432 Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
435 Falk Hueffner for working on C and optimization bug reports.
438 Bernardo Innocenti for his m68k work, including merging of
439 ColdFire improvements and uClinux support.
442 Christian Iseli for various bug fixes.
445 Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
448 Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
451 Balaji V. Iyer for Cilk+ development and merging.
454 Andreas Jaeger for testing and benchmarking of GCC and various bug fixes.
457 Martin Jambor for his work on inter-procedural optimizations, the
458 switch conversion pass, and scalar replacement of aggregates.
461 Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
462 as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
466 Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes, her quality improvement
467 sidetracks, and web page maintenance.
470 Kean Johnston for SCO OpenServer support and various fixes.
473 Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
474 Kenner's ``toy'' language.
477 Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation.
480 Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
483 Steven G. Kargl for work on GNU Fortran.
486 David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
489 Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bug fixes and optimizations of
490 strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.
493 Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
494 and his automatic regression tester.
497 Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with G++ and for a lot of early work
498 in just about every part of libstdc++.
501 Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
505 Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
506 Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
507 Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
508 instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
509 processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
510 strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
511 code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
512 elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
513 head maintainer of GCC for several years.
516 Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and
517 maintaining binary releases for Microsoft Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++
518 porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32.
521 Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
524 Mark Klein for PA improvements.
527 Thomas Koenig for various bug fixes.
530 Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
533 Benjamin Kosnik for his G++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
536 Maxim Kuvyrkov for contributions to the instruction scheduler, the Android
537 and m68k/Coldfire ports, and optimizations.
540 Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
544 Asher Langton and Mike Kumbera for contributing Cray pointer support
545 to GNU Fortran, and for other GNU Fortran improvements.
548 Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
549 entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
550 handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
551 fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
554 Walter Lee for work on the TILE-Gx and TILEPro ports.
557 Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
558 with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
561 Victor Leikehman for work on GNU Fortran.
564 Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
567 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for C++ improvements including template as template
568 parameter support, and many C++ fixes.
571 Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
572 random work on the Java front end.
575 Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU@.
578 Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and
582 Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
585 Chen Liqin for various S+core related fixes/improvement, and for
586 maintaining the S+core port.
589 Weiwen Liu for testing and various bug fixes.
592 Manuel L@'opez-Ib@'a@~nez for improving @option{-Wconversion} and
593 many other diagnostics fixes and improvements.
596 Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
600 Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
601 various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of
602 assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges.
605 H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
606 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
609 Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
612 Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
613 various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
616 Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking
617 improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and
618 direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and
619 implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler.
622 Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
625 John Marino for contributing the DragonFly BSD port.
628 Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and
629 improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.
632 Michael Matz for his work on dominance tree discovery, the x86-64 port,
633 link-time optimization framework and general optimization improvements.
636 All of the Mauve project contributors for Java test code.
639 Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.
642 Adam Megacz for his work on the Microsoft Windows port of GCJ@.
645 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
646 powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
649 Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
653 Martin Michlmayr for testing GCC on several architectures using the
654 entire Debian archive.
657 David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
658 SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
662 Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
665 Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bug fixes, and turning the
666 entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.
669 Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
670 C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
671 ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager from 2000
675 Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
678 Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
679 maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
682 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
683 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
684 services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and
685 the backs of envelopes would have been@dots{} difficult.
688 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
689 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
693 Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.
696 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements, and for the initial
700 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
701 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
702 than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
705 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
708 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
711 Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
712 C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
715 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship
716 through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale
717 infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project
718 documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on
719 MT-safe string and shadow headers.
722 Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.
725 Nathanael Nerode for cleaning up the configuration/build process.
728 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
732 Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
733 engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
736 Geoff Noer for his work on getting cygwin native builds working.
739 Diego Novillo for his work on Tree SSA, OpenMP, SPEC performance
740 tracking web pages, GIMPLE tuples, and assorted fixes.
743 David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
744 FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
748 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
749 amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy.
752 Stefan Olsson for work on mt_alloc.
755 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
758 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to GCC's o32
759 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
760 clean-ups and porting work, and maintaining the IRIX, Solaris 2, and
764 Hartmut Penner for work on the s390 port.
767 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
770 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and
771 continued Java maintainership.
774 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
777 Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
778 out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
779 taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
782 Andrew Pinski for processing bug reports by the dozen.
785 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
789 Jerry Quinn for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O@.
792 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
793 cleanups in the compiler.
796 Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT@.
799 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
803 Volker Reichelt for keeping up with the problem reports.
806 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
807 hacking and developing and maintaining the Epiphany port.
810 Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD
811 port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical
812 threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems,
813 as well as keeping GCC properly working on FreeBSD and continuous testing.
816 Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
819 Ola R@"onnerup for work on mt_alloc.
822 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
825 David Ronis inspired and encouraged Craig to rewrite the G77
826 documentation in texinfo format by contributing a first pass at a
827 translation of the old @file{g77-0.5.16/f/DOC} file.
830 Ken Rose for fixes to GCC's delay slot filling code.
833 Ira Rosen for her contributions to the auto-vectorizer.
836 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
839 P@'etur Run@'olfsson for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O and
840 large file support in C++ filebuf.
843 Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits,
844 Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support.
847 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
850 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
853 Roger Sayle for improvements to constant folding and GCC's RTL optimizers
854 as well as for fixing numerous bugs.
857 Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ@.
860 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
863 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
866 Tobias Schl@"uter for work on GNU Fortran.
869 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
870 work in the reload pass, serving as release manager for
871 GCC 2.95.3, and work on the Blackfin and C6X ports.
874 Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++---especially application
875 testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release
876 criteria---and libstdc++ header file tweaks.
879 Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.
882 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
885 Lars Segerlund for work on GNU Fortran.
888 Dodji Seketeli for numerous C++ bug fixes and debug info improvements.
891 Tim Shen for major work on @code{<regex>}.
894 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
895 contributions and RTEMS testing.
898 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
901 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
902 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
903 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
906 Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from
907 the LWG (thereby keeping GCC in line with updates from the ISO)@.
910 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
914 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
917 Trevor Smigiel for contributing the SPU port.
920 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
923 Danny Smith for his major efforts on the Mingw (and Cygwin) ports.
924 Retired from GCC maintainership August 2010, having mentored two
925 new maintainers into the role.
928 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
931 Ed Smith-Rowland for his continuous work on libstdc++-v3, special functions,
932 @code{<random>}, and various improvements to C++11 features.
935 Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++
936 testsuite entries. Also for providing the patch to G77 to add
937 rudimentary support for @code{INTEGER*1}, @code{INTEGER*2}, and
941 Zdenek Sojka for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting
945 Jayant Sonar for contributing the CR16 port.
948 Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique.
951 Richard Stallman, for writing the original GCC and launching the GNU project.
954 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
955 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
958 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
961 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
964 Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
967 John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.
970 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, G++ contributions over the years and more
971 recently his vxworks contributions
974 Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.
977 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
980 Ian Lance Taylor for the Go frontend, the initial mips16 and mips64
981 support, general configury hacking, fixincludes, etc.
984 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU@.
987 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
990 Paul Thomas for contributions to GNU Fortran.
993 Philipp Thomas for random bug fixes throughout the compiler
996 Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD@.
999 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
1000 language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
1003 Michael Tiemann for random bug fixes, the first instruction scheduler,
1004 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
1005 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
1008 Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.
1011 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
1014 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
1015 definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
1018 Daniel Towner and Hariharan Sandanagobalane contributed and
1019 maintain the picoChip port.
1022 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java
1023 contributions and libgcj maintainership.
1026 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
1030 Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes.
1033 Andy Vaught for the design and initial implementation of the GNU Fortran
1037 Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their
1038 associated configure steps.
1041 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
1044 Andrew Waterman for contributing the RISC-V port, as well as maintaining it.
1047 Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML
1051 Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
1052 in time for GCC 3.0.
1055 Krister Walfridsson for random bug fixes.
1058 Feng Wang for contributions to GNU Fortran.
1061 Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files
1062 work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time
1063 header tree. Also, for starting and driving the @code{<regex>} effort.
1066 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
1067 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
1068 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
1071 Ulrich Weigand for work on the s390 port.
1074 Janus Weil for contributions to GNU Fortran.
1077 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bug fixes.
1080 Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ@.
1083 Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.
1086 Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with
1090 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
1093 Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
1096 Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
1097 problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
1098 reduction and other loop optimizations.
1101 Paul Woegerer and Tal Agmon for the CRX port.
1104 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
1107 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
1110 Chung-Ju Wu for his work on the Andes NDS32 port.
1113 Canqun Yang for work on GNU Fortran.
1116 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
1117 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
1120 Kevin Zachmann helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
1123 Ayal Zaks for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS).
1126 Xiaoqiang Zhang for work on GNU Fortran.
1129 Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.
1133 The following people are recognized for their contributions to GNAT,
1134 the Ada front end of GCC:
1280 The following people are recognized for their contributions of new
1281 features, bug reports, testing and integration of classpath/libgcj for
1285 Lillian Angel for @code{JTree} implementation and lots Free Swing
1286 additions and bug fixes.
1289 Wolfgang Baer for @code{GapContent} bug fixes.
1292 Anthony Balkissoon for @code{JList}, Free Swing 1.5 updates and mouse event
1293 fixes, lots of Free Swing work including @code{JTable} editing.
1296 Stuart Ballard for RMI constant fixes.
1299 Goffredo Baroncelli for @code{HTTPURLConnection} fixes.
1302 Gary Benson for @code{MessageFormat} fixes.
1305 Daniel Bonniot for @code{Serialization} fixes.
1308 Chris Burdess for lots of gnu.xml and http protocol fixes, @code{StAX}
1309 and @code{DOM xml:id} support.
1312 Ka-Hing Cheung for @code{TreePath} and @code{TreeSelection} fixes.
1315 Archie Cobbs for build fixes, VM interface updates,
1316 @code{URLClassLoader} updates.
1319 Kelley Cook for build fixes.
1322 Martin Cordova for Suggestions for better @code{SocketTimeoutException}.
1325 David Daney for @code{BitSet} bug fixes, @code{HttpURLConnection}
1326 rewrite and improvements.
1329 Thomas Fitzsimmons for lots of upgrades to the gtk+ AWT and Cairo 2D
1330 support. Lots of imageio framework additions, lots of AWT and Free
1334 Jeroen Frijters for @code{ClassLoader} and nio cleanups, serialization fixes,
1335 better @code{Proxy} support, bug fixes and IKVM integration.
1338 Santiago Gala for @code{AccessControlContext} fixes.
1341 Nicolas Geoffray for @code{VMClassLoader} and @code{AccessController}
1345 David Gilbert for @code{basic} and @code{metal} icon and plaf support
1346 and lots of documenting, Lots of Free Swing and metal theme
1347 additions. @code{MetalIconFactory} implementation.
1350 Anthony Green for @code{MIDI} framework, @code{ALSA} and @code{DSSI}
1354 Andrew Haley for @code{Serialization} and @code{URLClassLoader} fixes,
1358 Kim Ho for @code{JFileChooser} implementation.
1361 Andrew John Hughes for @code{Locale} and net fixes, URI RFC2986
1362 updates, @code{Serialization} fixes, @code{Properties} XML support and
1363 generic branch work, VMIntegration guide update.
1366 Bastiaan Huisman for @code{TimeZone} bug fixing.
1369 Andreas Jaeger for mprec updates.
1372 Paul Jenner for better @option{-Werror} support.
1375 Ito Kazumitsu for @code{NetworkInterface} implementation and updates.
1378 Roman Kennke for @code{BoxLayout}, @code{GrayFilter} and
1379 @code{SplitPane}, plus bug fixes all over. Lots of Free Swing work
1380 including styled text.
1383 Simon Kitching for @code{String} cleanups and optimization suggestions.
1386 Michael Koch for configuration fixes, @code{Locale} updates, bug and
1390 Guilhem Lavaux for configuration, thread and channel fixes and Kaffe
1391 integration. JCL native @code{Pointer} updates. Logger bug fixes.
1394 David Lichteblau for JCL support library global/local reference
1398 Aaron Luchko for JDWP updates and documentation fixes.
1401 Ziga Mahkovec for @code{Graphics2D} upgraded to Cairo 0.5 and new regex
1405 Sven de Marothy for BMP imageio support, CSS and @code{TextLayout}
1406 fixes. @code{GtkImage} rewrite, 2D, awt, free swing and date/time fixes and
1407 implementing the Qt4 peers.
1410 Casey Marshall for crypto algorithm fixes, @code{FileChannel} lock,
1411 @code{SystemLogger} and @code{FileHandler} rotate implementations, NIO
1412 @code{FileChannel.map} support, security and policy updates.
1415 Bryce McKinlay for RMI work.
1418 Audrius Meskauskas for lots of Free Corba, RMI and HTML work plus
1419 testing and documenting.
1422 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo for build fixes.
1425 Rainer Orth for build fixes.
1428 Andrew Overholt for @code{File} locking fixes.
1431 Ingo Proetel for @code{Image}, @code{Logger} and @code{URLClassLoader}
1435 Olga Rodimina for @code{MenuSelectionManager} implementation.
1438 Jan Roehrich for @code{BasicTreeUI} and @code{JTree} fixes.
1441 Julian Scheid for documentation updates and gjdoc support.
1444 Christian Schlichtherle for zip fixes and cleanups.
1447 Robert Schuster for documentation updates and beans fixes,
1448 @code{TreeNode} enumerations and @code{ActionCommand} and various
1449 fixes, XML and URL, AWT and Free Swing bug fixes.
1452 Keith Seitz for lots of JDWP work.
1455 Christian Thalinger for 64-bit cleanups, Configuration and VM
1456 interface fixes and @code{CACAO} integration, @code{fdlibm} updates.
1459 Gael Thomas for @code{VMClassLoader} boot packages support suggestions.
1462 Andreas Tobler for Darwin and Solaris testing and fixing, @code{Qt4}
1463 support for Darwin/OS X, @code{Graphics2D} support, @code{gtk+}
1467 Dalibor Topic for better @code{DEBUG} support, build cleanups and
1468 Kaffe integration. @code{Qt4} build infrastructure, @code{SHA1PRNG}
1469 and @code{GdkPixbugDecoder} updates.
1472 Tom Tromey for Eclipse integration, generics work, lots of bug fixes
1473 and gcj integration including coordinating The Big Merge.
1476 Mark Wielaard for bug fixes, packaging and release management,
1477 @code{Clipboard} implementation, system call interrupts and network
1478 timeouts and @code{GdkPixpufDecoder} fixes.
1483 In addition to the above, all of which also contributed time and energy in
1484 testing GCC, we would like to thank the following for their contributions
1489 Michael Abd-El-Malek
1558 Charles-Antoine Gauthier
1723 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, provides
1724 feedback and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first