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8 @unnumbered Contributors to GCC
11 The GCC project would like to thank its many contributors. Without them the
12 project would not have been nearly as successful as it has been. Any omissions
13 in this list are accidental. Feel free to contact
14 @email{law@@redhat.com} or @email{gerald@@pfeifer.com} if you have been left
15 out or some of your contributions are not listed. Please keep this list in
21 Analog Devices helped implement the support for complex data types
25 John David Anglin for threading-related fixes and improvements to
26 libstdc++-v3, and the HP-UX port.
29 James van Artsdalen wrote the code that makes efficient use of
30 the Intel 80387 register stack.
33 Abramo and Roberto Bagnara for the SysV68 Motorola 3300 Delta Series
37 Alasdair Baird for various bug fixes.
40 Giovanni Bajo for analyzing lots of complicated C++ problem reports.
43 Peter Barada for his work to improve code generation for new
47 Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end.
50 Godmar Back for his Java improvements and encouragement.
53 Scott Bambrough for help porting the Java compiler.
56 Wolfgang Bangerth for processing tons of bug reports.
59 Jon Beniston for his Microsoft Windows port of Java and port to Lattice Mico32.
62 Daniel Berlin for better DWARF2 support, faster/better optimizations,
63 improved alias analysis, plus migrating GCC to Bugzilla.
66 Geoff Berry for his Java object serialization work and various patches.
69 David Binderman tests weekly snapshots of GCC trunk against Fedora Rawhide
70 for several architectures.
73 Uros Bizjak for the implementation of x87 math built-in functions and
74 for various middle end and i386 back end improvements and bug fixes.
77 Eric Blake for helping to make GCJ and libgcj conform to the
81 Janne Blomqvist for contributions to GNU Fortran.
84 Segher Boessenkool for various fixes.
87 Hans-J. Boehm for his @uref{http://www.hpl.hp.com/@/personal/@/Hans_Boehm/@/gc/,,
88 garbage collector}, IA-64 libffi port, and other Java work.
91 Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other
92 miscellaneous clean-ups.
95 Steven Bosscher for integrating the GNU Fortran front end into GCC and for
96 contributing to the tree-ssa branch.
99 Eric Botcazou for fixing middle- and backend bugs left and right.
102 Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
103 improvements to the infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
104 front end implementation. Initial implementations of
105 cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++)
106 maintainer. Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of GCJ@.
109 Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
112 Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
115 Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
118 Paul Brook for work on the ARM architecture and maintaining GNU Fortran.
121 Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
124 Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
127 Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
130 Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ@.
133 Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
136 Craig Burley for leadership of the G77 Fortran effort.
139 Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++.
142 Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to
143 the C++ strings, streambufs and formatted I/O, hard detective work on
144 the frustrating localization issues, and keeping up with the problem reports.
147 John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
148 previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
151 Stephane Carrez for 68HC11 and 68HC12 ports.
154 Steve Chamberlain for support for the Renesas SH and H8 processors
155 and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.
158 Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ@.
161 John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches.
164 Denis Chertykov for contributing and maintaining the AVR port, the first GCC port
165 for an 8-bit architecture.
168 Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
171 Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.
174 Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
177 The @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/,,GNU Classpath project}
178 for all of their merged runtime code.
181 Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r, rx work,
182 @option{--help}, and other random hacking.
185 Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings.
188 R. Kelley Cook for making GCC buildable from a read-only directory as
189 well as other miscellaneous build process and documentation clean-ups.
192 Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bug fixing.
195 Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
199 Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
202 Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
205 Paul Dale for his work to add uClinux platform support to the
209 Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
210 that print a copy of their source.
213 Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.
216 Bud Davis for work on the G77 and GNU Fortran compilers.
219 Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes.
222 DJ Delorie for the DJGPP port, build and libiberty maintenance,
223 various bug fixes, and the M32C, MeP, and RL78 ports.
226 Arnaud Desitter for helping to debug GNU Fortran.
229 Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to G++, contributions and
230 maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3,
231 including @code{valarray<>}, @code{complex<>}, maintaining the numerics library
232 (including that pesky @code{<limits>} :-) and keeping up-to-date anything
236 Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99
237 support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime
238 libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and
239 maintaining @code{complex<>}, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration
240 architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.
243 Zdenek Dvorak for a new loop unroller and various fixes.
246 Michael Eager for his work on the Xilinx MicroBlaze port.
249 Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
252 David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work
253 with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes,
254 doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands, and for
255 ensuring GCC properly keeps working on AIX@.
258 Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in
262 Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery,
263 documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional
264 iostream bug fix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
267 Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
270 Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++
271 configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.
274 Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.
277 Christian Ehrhardt for dealing with bug reports.
280 Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
281 own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
284 Revital Eres for work on the PowerPC 750CL port.
287 Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
290 Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
294 Christopher Faylor for his work on the Cygwin port and for caring and
295 feeding the gcc.gnu.org box and saving its users tons of spam.
298 Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
301 Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portuguese translation of the GCJ FAQ@.
304 Peter Gerwinski for various bug fixes and the Pascal front end.
307 Kaveh R.@: Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee, amazing
308 work to make @samp{-W -Wall -W* -Werror} useful, and continuously
309 testing GCC on a plethora of platforms. Kaveh extends his gratitude to
310 the @uref{http://www.caip.rutgers.edu,,CAIP Center} at Rutgers
311 University for providing him with computing resources to work on Free
312 Software since the late 1980s.
315 John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.
318 Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
321 Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
322 multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
323 support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
324 via the steering committee.
327 Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions, the moxie port, and
331 Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug Java code.
334 Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
337 Richard Guenther for his ongoing middle-end contributions and bug fixes
338 and for release management.
341 Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
342 tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
343 the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
344 Intel 386 and 860 support.
347 Sumanth Gundapaneni for contributing the CR16 port.
350 Mostafa Hagog for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS) and post reload GCSE@.
353 Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
354 warnings and assorted bug fixes.
357 Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
360 Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
363 Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
364 the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
368 Dara Hazeghi for wading through myriads of target-specific bug reports.
371 Kate Hedstrom for staking the G77 folks with an initial testsuite.
374 Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, ia32, and ia64 work, loop
375 opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
376 years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
380 Aldy Hernandez for working on the PowerPC port, SIMD support, and
384 Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
385 the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
388 Kazu Hirata for caring and feeding the Renesas H8/300 port and various fixes.
391 Katherine Holcomb for work on GNU Fortran.
394 Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
395 of testing and bug fixing, particularly of GCC configury code.
398 Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
401 Mat Hostetter for work on the TILE-Gx and TILEPro ports.
404 Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
407 Falk Hueffner for working on C and optimization bug reports.
410 Bernardo Innocenti for his m68k work, including merging of
411 ColdFire improvements and uClinux support.
414 Christian Iseli for various bug fixes.
417 Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
420 Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
423 Andreas Jaeger for testing and benchmarking of GCC and various bug fixes.
426 Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
427 as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
431 Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes, her quality improvement
432 sidetracks, and web page maintenance.
435 Kean Johnston for SCO OpenServer support and various fixes.
438 Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
439 Kenner's ``toy'' language.
442 Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation.
445 Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
448 Steven G. Kargl for work on GNU Fortran.
451 David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
454 Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bug fixes and optimizations of
455 strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.
458 Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
459 and his automatic regression tester.
462 Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with G++ and for a lot of early work
463 in just about every part of libstdc++.
466 Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
470 Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
471 Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
472 Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
473 instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
474 processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
475 strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
476 code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
477 elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
478 head maintainer of GCC for several years.
481 Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and
482 maintaining binary releases for Microsoft Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++
483 porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32.
486 Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
489 Mark Klein for PA improvements.
492 Thomas Koenig for various bug fixes.
495 Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
498 Benjamin Kosnik for his G++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
501 Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
505 Asher Langton and Mike Kumbera for contributing Cray pointer support
506 to GNU Fortran, and for other GNU Fortran improvements.
509 Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
510 entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
511 handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
512 fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
515 Walter Lee for work on the TILE-Gx and TILEPro ports.
518 Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
519 with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
522 Victor Leikehman for work on GNU Fortran.
525 Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
528 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for C++ improvements including template as template
529 parameter support, and many C++ fixes.
532 Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
533 random work on the Java front end.
536 Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU@.
539 Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and
543 Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
546 Chen Liqin for various S+core related fixes/improvement, and for
547 maintaining the S+core port.
550 Weiwen Liu for testing and various bug fixes.
553 Manuel L@'opez-Ib@'a@~nez for improving @option{-Wconversion} and
554 many other diagnostics fixes and improvements.
557 Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
561 Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
562 various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of
563 assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges.
566 H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
567 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
570 Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
573 Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
574 various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
577 Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking
578 improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and
579 direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and
580 implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler.
583 Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
586 Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and
587 improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.
590 All of the Mauve project
591 @uref{http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/mauve/THANKS?rev=1.2&cvsroot=mauve&only_with_tag=HEAD,,contributors},
595 Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.
598 Adam Megacz for his work on the Microsoft Windows port of GCJ@.
601 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
602 powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
605 Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
609 Martin Michlmayr for testing GCC on several architectures using the
610 entire Debian archive.
613 David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
614 SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
618 Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
621 Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bug fixes, and turning the
622 entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.
625 Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
626 C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
627 ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.x.
630 Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
633 Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
634 maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
637 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
638 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
639 services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and
640 the backs of envelopes would have been@dots{} difficult.
643 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
644 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
648 Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.
651 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements, and for the initial
655 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
656 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
657 than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
660 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
663 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
666 Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
667 C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
670 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship
671 through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale
672 infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project
673 documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on
674 MT-safe string and shadow headers.
677 Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.
680 Nathanael Nerode for cleaning up the configuration/build process.
683 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
687 Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
688 engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
691 Geoff Noer for his work on getting cygwin native builds working.
694 Diego Novillo for his work on Tree SSA, OpenMP, SPEC performance
695 tracking web pages, GIMPLE tuples, and assorted fixes.
698 David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
699 FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
703 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
704 amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy.
707 Stefan Olsson for work on mt_alloc.
710 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
713 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to GCC's o32
714 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
715 clean-ups and porting work, and maintaining the IRIX, Solaris 2, and
719 Hartmut Penner for work on the s390 port.
722 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
725 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and
726 continued Java maintainership.
729 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
732 Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
733 out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
734 taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
737 Andrew Pinski for processing bug reports by the dozen.
740 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
744 Jerry Quinn for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O@.
747 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
748 cleanups in the compiler.
751 Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT@.
754 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
758 Volker Reichelt for keeping up with the problem reports.
761 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
762 hacking and developing and maintaining the Epiphany port.
765 Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD
766 port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical
767 threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems,
768 as well as keeping GCC properly working on FreeBSD and continuous testing.
771 Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
774 Ola R@"onnerup for work on mt_alloc.
777 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
780 David Ronis inspired and encouraged Craig to rewrite the G77
781 documentation in texinfo format by contributing a first pass at a
782 translation of the old @file{g77-0.5.16/f/DOC} file.
785 Ken Rose for fixes to GCC's delay slot filling code.
788 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
791 P@'etur Run@'olfsson for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O and
792 large file support in C++ filebuf.
795 Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits,
796 Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support.
799 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
802 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
805 Roger Sayle for improvements to constant folding and GCC's RTL optimizers
806 as well as for fixing numerous bugs.
809 Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ@.
812 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
815 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
818 Tobias Schl@"uter for work on GNU Fortran.
821 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
822 work in the reload pass, serving as release manager for
823 GCC 2.95.3, and work on the Blackfin and C6X ports.
826 Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++---especially application
827 testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release
828 criteria---and libstdc++ header file tweaks.
831 Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.
834 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
837 Lars Segerlund for work on GNU Fortran.
840 Dodji Seketeli for numerous C++ bug fixes and debug info improvements.
843 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
844 contributions and RTEMS testing.
847 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
850 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
851 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
852 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
855 Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from
856 the LWG (thereby keeping GCC in line with updates from the ISO)@.
859 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
863 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
866 Trevor Smigiel for contributing the SPU port.
869 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
872 Danny Smith for his major efforts on the Mingw (and Cygwin) ports.
875 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
878 Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++
879 testsuite entries. Also for providing the patch to G77 to add
880 rudimentary support for @code{INTEGER*1}, @code{INTEGER*2}, and
884 Zdenek Sojka for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting
888 Jayant Sonar for contributing the CR16 port.
891 Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique.
894 Richard Stallman, for writing the original GCC and launching the GNU project.
897 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
898 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
901 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
904 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
907 Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
910 John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.
913 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, G++ contributions over the years and more
914 recently his vxworks contributions
917 Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.
920 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
923 Ian Lance Taylor for the Go frontend, the initial mips16 and mips64
924 support, general configury hacking, fixincludes, etc.
927 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU@.
930 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
933 Philipp Thomas for random bug fixes throughout the compiler
936 Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD@.
939 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
940 language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
943 Michael Tiemann for random bug fixes, the first instruction scheduler,
944 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
945 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
948 Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.
951 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
954 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
955 definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
958 Daniel Towner and Hariharan Sandanagobalane contributed and
959 maintain the picoChip port.
962 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java
963 contributions and libgcj maintainership.
966 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
970 Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes.
973 Andy Vaught for the design and initial implementation of the GNU Fortran
977 Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their
978 associated configure steps.
981 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
984 Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML
988 Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
992 Krister Walfridsson for random bug fixes.
995 Feng Wang for contributions to GNU Fortran.
998 Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files
999 work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time
1003 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
1004 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
1005 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
1008 Ulrich Weigand for work on the s390 port.
1011 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bug fixes.
1014 Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ@.
1017 Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.
1020 Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with
1024 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
1027 Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
1030 Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
1031 problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
1032 reduction and other loop optimizations.
1035 Paul Woegerer and Tal Agmon for the CRX port.
1038 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
1041 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
1044 Canqun Yang for work on GNU Fortran.
1047 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
1048 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
1051 Kevin Zachmann helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
1054 Ayal Zaks for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS).
1057 Xiaoqiang Zhang for work on GNU Fortran.
1060 Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.
1064 The following people are recognized for their contributions to GNAT,
1065 the Ada front end of GCC:
1211 The following people are recognized for their contributions of new
1212 features, bug reports, testing and integration of classpath/libgcj for
1216 Lillian Angel for @code{JTree} implementation and lots Free Swing
1217 additions and bug fixes.
1220 Wolfgang Baer for @code{GapContent} bug fixes.
1223 Anthony Balkissoon for @code{JList}, Free Swing 1.5 updates and mouse event
1224 fixes, lots of Free Swing work including @code{JTable} editing.
1227 Stuart Ballard for RMI constant fixes.
1230 Goffredo Baroncelli for @code{HTTPURLConnection} fixes.
1233 Gary Benson for @code{MessageFormat} fixes.
1236 Daniel Bonniot for @code{Serialization} fixes.
1239 Chris Burdess for lots of gnu.xml and http protocol fixes, @code{StAX}
1240 and @code{DOM xml:id} support.
1243 Ka-Hing Cheung for @code{TreePath} and @code{TreeSelection} fixes.
1246 Archie Cobbs for build fixes, VM interface updates,
1247 @code{URLClassLoader} updates.
1250 Kelley Cook for build fixes.
1253 Martin Cordova for Suggestions for better @code{SocketTimeoutException}.
1256 David Daney for @code{BitSet} bug fixes, @code{HttpURLConnection}
1257 rewrite and improvements.
1260 Thomas Fitzsimmons for lots of upgrades to the gtk+ AWT and Cairo 2D
1261 support. Lots of imageio framework additions, lots of AWT and Free
1265 Jeroen Frijters for @code{ClassLoader} and nio cleanups, serialization fixes,
1266 better @code{Proxy} support, bug fixes and IKVM integration.
1269 Santiago Gala for @code{AccessControlContext} fixes.
1272 Nicolas Geoffray for @code{VMClassLoader} and @code{AccessController}
1276 David Gilbert for @code{basic} and @code{metal} icon and plaf support
1277 and lots of documenting, Lots of Free Swing and metal theme
1278 additions. @code{MetalIconFactory} implementation.
1281 Anthony Green for @code{MIDI} framework, @code{ALSA} and @code{DSSI}
1285 Andrew Haley for @code{Serialization} and @code{URLClassLoader} fixes,
1289 Kim Ho for @code{JFileChooser} implementation.
1292 Andrew John Hughes for @code{Locale} and net fixes, URI RFC2986
1293 updates, @code{Serialization} fixes, @code{Properties} XML support and
1294 generic branch work, VMIntegration guide update.
1297 Bastiaan Huisman for @code{TimeZone} bug fixing.
1300 Andreas Jaeger for mprec updates.
1303 Paul Jenner for better @option{-Werror} support.
1306 Ito Kazumitsu for @code{NetworkInterface} implementation and updates.
1309 Roman Kennke for @code{BoxLayout}, @code{GrayFilter} and
1310 @code{SplitPane}, plus bug fixes all over. Lots of Free Swing work
1311 including styled text.
1314 Simon Kitching for @code{String} cleanups and optimization suggestions.
1317 Michael Koch for configuration fixes, @code{Locale} updates, bug and
1321 Guilhem Lavaux for configuration, thread and channel fixes and Kaffe
1322 integration. JCL native @code{Pointer} updates. Logger bug fixes.
1325 David Lichteblau for JCL support library global/local reference
1329 Aaron Luchko for JDWP updates and documentation fixes.
1332 Ziga Mahkovec for @code{Graphics2D} upgraded to Cairo 0.5 and new regex
1336 Sven de Marothy for BMP imageio support, CSS and @code{TextLayout}
1337 fixes. @code{GtkImage} rewrite, 2D, awt, free swing and date/time fixes and
1338 implementing the Qt4 peers.
1341 Casey Marshall for crypto algorithm fixes, @code{FileChannel} lock,
1342 @code{SystemLogger} and @code{FileHandler} rotate implementations, NIO
1343 @code{FileChannel.map} support, security and policy updates.
1346 Bryce McKinlay for RMI work.
1349 Audrius Meskauskas for lots of Free Corba, RMI and HTML work plus
1350 testing and documenting.
1353 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo for build fixes.
1356 Rainer Orth for build fixes.
1359 Andrew Overholt for @code{File} locking fixes.
1362 Ingo Proetel for @code{Image}, @code{Logger} and @code{URLClassLoader}
1366 Olga Rodimina for @code{MenuSelectionManager} implementation.
1369 Jan Roehrich for @code{BasicTreeUI} and @code{JTree} fixes.
1372 Julian Scheid for documentation updates and gjdoc support.
1375 Christian Schlichtherle for zip fixes and cleanups.
1378 Robert Schuster for documentation updates and beans fixes,
1379 @code{TreeNode} enumerations and @code{ActionCommand} and various
1380 fixes, XML and URL, AWT and Free Swing bug fixes.
1383 Keith Seitz for lots of JDWP work.
1386 Christian Thalinger for 64-bit cleanups, Configuration and VM
1387 interface fixes and @code{CACAO} integration, @code{fdlibm} updates.
1390 Gael Thomas for @code{VMClassLoader} boot packages support suggestions.
1393 Andreas Tobler for Darwin and Solaris testing and fixing, @code{Qt4}
1394 support for Darwin/OS X, @code{Graphics2D} support, @code{gtk+}
1398 Dalibor Topic for better @code{DEBUG} support, build cleanups and
1399 Kaffe integration. @code{Qt4} build infrastructure, @code{SHA1PRNG}
1400 and @code{GdkPixbugDecoder} updates.
1403 Tom Tromey for Eclipse integration, generics work, lots of bug fixes
1404 and gcj integration including coordinating The Big Merge.
1407 Mark Wielaard for bug fixes, packaging and release management,
1408 @code{Clipboard} implementation, system call interrupts and network
1409 timeouts and @code{GdkPixpufDecoder} fixes.
1414 In addition to the above, all of which also contributed time and energy in
1415 testing GCC, we would like to thank the following for their contributions
1420 Michael Abd-El-Malek
1489 Charles-Antoine Gauthier
1654 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, provides
1655 feedback and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first