1 @c Copyright (C) 1988-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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 DWARF2 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 Uros Bizjak for the implementation of x87 math built-in functions and
72 for various middle end and i386 back end improvements and bug fixes.
75 Eric Blake for helping to make GCJ and libgcj conform to the
79 Janne Blomqvist for contributions to GNU Fortran.
82 Segher Boessenkool for various fixes.
85 Hans-J. Boehm for his @uref{http://www.hpl.hp.com/@/personal/@/Hans_Boehm/@/gc/,,
86 garbage collector}, IA-64 libffi port, and other Java work.
89 Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other
90 miscellaneous clean-ups.
93 Steven Bosscher for integrating the GNU Fortran front end into GCC and for
94 contributing to the tree-ssa branch.
97 Eric Botcazou for fixing middle- and backend bugs left and right.
100 Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
101 improvements to the infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
102 front end implementation. Initial implementations of
103 cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++)
104 maintainer. Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of GCJ@.
107 Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
110 Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
113 Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
116 Paul Brook for work on the ARM architecture and maintaining GNU Fortran.
119 Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
122 Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
125 Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
128 Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ@.
131 Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
134 Craig Burley for leadership of the G77 Fortran effort.
137 Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++.
140 Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to
141 the C++ strings, streambufs and formatted I/O, hard detective work on
142 the frustrating localization issues, and keeping up with the problem reports.
145 John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
146 previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
149 Stephane Carrez for 68HC11 and 68HC12 ports.
152 Steve Chamberlain for support for the Renesas SH and H8 processors
153 and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.
156 Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ@.
159 John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches.
162 Denis Chertykov for contributing and maintaining the AVR port, the first GCC port
163 for an 8-bit architecture.
166 Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
169 Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.
172 Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
175 The @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/,,GNU Classpath project}
176 for all of their merged runtime code.
179 Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r, rx work,
180 @option{--help}, and other random hacking.
183 Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings.
186 R. Kelley Cook for making GCC buildable from a read-only directory as
187 well as other miscellaneous build process and documentation clean-ups.
190 Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bug fixing.
193 Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
197 Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
200 Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
203 Paul Dale for his work to add uClinux platform support to the
207 Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
208 that print a copy of their source.
211 Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.
214 Bud Davis for work on the G77 and GNU Fortran compilers.
217 Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes.
220 DJ Delorie for the DJGPP port, build and libiberty maintenance,
221 various bug fixes, and the M32C, MeP, and RL78 ports.
224 Arnaud Desitter for helping to debug GNU Fortran.
227 Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to G++, contributions and
228 maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3,
229 including @code{valarray<>}, @code{complex<>}, maintaining the numerics library
230 (including that pesky @code{<limits>} :-) and keeping up-to-date anything
234 Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99
235 support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime
236 libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and
237 maintaining @code{complex<>}, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration
238 architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.
241 Zdenek Dvorak for a new loop unroller and various fixes.
244 Michael Eager for his work on the Xilinx MicroBlaze port.
247 Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
250 David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work
251 with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes,
252 doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands, and for
253 ensuring GCC properly keeps working on AIX@.
256 Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in
260 Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery,
261 documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional
262 iostream bug fix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
265 Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
268 Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++
269 configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.
272 Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.
275 Christian Ehrhardt for dealing with bug reports.
278 Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
279 own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
282 Revital Eres for work on the PowerPC 750CL port.
285 Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
288 Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
292 Christopher Faylor for his work on the Cygwin port and for caring and
293 feeding the gcc.gnu.org box and saving its users tons of spam.
296 Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
299 Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portuguese translation of the GCJ FAQ@.
302 Peter Gerwinski for various bug fixes and the Pascal front end.
305 Kaveh R.@: Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee, amazing
306 work to make @samp{-W -Wall -W* -Werror} useful, and
307 testing GCC on a plethora of platforms. Kaveh extends his gratitude to
308 the CAIP Center at Rutgers University for providing him with computing
309 resources to work on Free Software from the late 1980s to 2010.
312 John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.
315 Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
318 Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
319 multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
320 support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
321 via the steering committee.
324 Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions, the moxie port, and
328 Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug Java code.
331 Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
334 Richard Guenther for his ongoing middle-end contributions and bug fixes
335 and for release management.
338 Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
339 tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
340 the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
341 Intel 386 and 860 support.
344 Sumanth Gundapaneni for contributing the CR16 port.
347 Mostafa Hagog for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS) and post reload GCSE@.
350 Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
351 warnings and assorted bug fixes.
354 Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
357 Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
360 Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
361 the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
365 Dara Hazeghi for wading through myriads of target-specific bug reports.
368 Kate Hedstrom for staking the G77 folks with an initial testsuite.
371 Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, ia32, and ia64 work, loop
372 opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
373 years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
377 Aldy Hernandez for working on the PowerPC port, SIMD support, and
381 Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
382 the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
385 Kazu Hirata for caring and feeding the Renesas H8/300 port and various fixes.
388 Katherine Holcomb for work on GNU Fortran.
391 Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
392 of testing and bug fixing, particularly of GCC configury code.
395 Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
398 Mat Hostetter for work on the TILE-Gx and TILEPro ports.
401 Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
404 Falk Hueffner for working on C and optimization bug reports.
407 Bernardo Innocenti for his m68k work, including merging of
408 ColdFire improvements and uClinux support.
411 Christian Iseli for various bug fixes.
414 Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
417 Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
420 Andreas Jaeger for testing and benchmarking of GCC and various bug fixes.
423 Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
424 as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
428 Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes, her quality improvement
429 sidetracks, and web page maintenance.
432 Kean Johnston for SCO OpenServer support and various fixes.
435 Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
436 Kenner's ``toy'' language.
439 Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation.
442 Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
445 Steven G. Kargl for work on GNU Fortran.
448 David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
451 Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bug fixes and optimizations of
452 strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.
455 Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
456 and his automatic regression tester.
459 Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with G++ and for a lot of early work
460 in just about every part of libstdc++.
463 Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
467 Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
468 Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
469 Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
470 instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
471 processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
472 strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
473 code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
474 elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
475 head maintainer of GCC for several years.
478 Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and
479 maintaining binary releases for Microsoft Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++
480 porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32.
483 Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
486 Mark Klein for PA improvements.
489 Thomas Koenig for various bug fixes.
492 Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
495 Benjamin Kosnik for his G++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
498 Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
502 Asher Langton and Mike Kumbera for contributing Cray pointer support
503 to GNU Fortran, and for other GNU Fortran improvements.
506 Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
507 entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
508 handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
509 fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
512 Walter Lee for work on the TILE-Gx and TILEPro ports.
515 Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
516 with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
519 Victor Leikehman for work on GNU Fortran.
522 Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
525 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for C++ improvements including template as template
526 parameter support, and many C++ fixes.
529 Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
530 random work on the Java front end.
533 Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU@.
536 Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and
540 Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
543 Chen Liqin for various S+core related fixes/improvement, and for
544 maintaining the S+core port.
547 Weiwen Liu for testing and various bug fixes.
550 Manuel L@'opez-Ib@'a@~nez for improving @option{-Wconversion} and
551 many other diagnostics fixes and improvements.
554 Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
558 Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
559 various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of
560 assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges.
563 H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
564 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
567 Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
570 Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
571 various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
574 Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking
575 improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and
576 direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and
577 implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler.
580 Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
583 Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and
584 improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.
587 All of the Mauve project
588 @uref{http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/mauve/THANKS?rev=1.2&cvsroot=mauve&only_with_tag=HEAD,,contributors},
592 Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.
595 Adam Megacz for his work on the Microsoft Windows port of GCJ@.
598 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
599 powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
602 Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
606 Martin Michlmayr for testing GCC on several architectures using the
607 entire Debian archive.
610 David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
611 SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
615 Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
618 Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bug fixes, and turning the
619 entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.
622 Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
623 C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
624 ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager from 2000
628 Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
631 Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
632 maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
635 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
636 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
637 services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and
638 the backs of envelopes would have been@dots{} difficult.
641 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
642 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
646 Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.
649 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements, and for the initial
653 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
654 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
655 than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
658 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
661 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
664 Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
665 C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
668 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship
669 through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale
670 infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project
671 documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on
672 MT-safe string and shadow headers.
675 Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.
678 Nathanael Nerode for cleaning up the configuration/build process.
681 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
685 Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
686 engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
689 Geoff Noer for his work on getting cygwin native builds working.
692 Diego Novillo for his work on Tree SSA, OpenMP, SPEC performance
693 tracking web pages, GIMPLE tuples, and assorted fixes.
696 David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
697 FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
701 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
702 amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy.
705 Stefan Olsson for work on mt_alloc.
708 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
711 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to GCC's o32
712 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
713 clean-ups and porting work, and maintaining the IRIX, Solaris 2, and
717 Hartmut Penner for work on the s390 port.
720 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
723 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and
724 continued Java maintainership.
727 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
730 Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
731 out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
732 taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
735 Andrew Pinski for processing bug reports by the dozen.
738 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
742 Jerry Quinn for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O@.
745 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
746 cleanups in the compiler.
749 Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT@.
752 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
756 Volker Reichelt for keeping up with the problem reports.
759 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
760 hacking and developing and maintaining the Epiphany port.
763 Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD
764 port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical
765 threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems,
766 as well as keeping GCC properly working on FreeBSD and continuous testing.
769 Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
772 Ola R@"onnerup for work on mt_alloc.
775 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
778 David Ronis inspired and encouraged Craig to rewrite the G77
779 documentation in texinfo format by contributing a first pass at a
780 translation of the old @file{g77-0.5.16/f/DOC} file.
783 Ken Rose for fixes to GCC's delay slot filling code.
786 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
789 P@'etur Run@'olfsson for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O and
790 large file support in C++ filebuf.
793 Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits,
794 Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support.
797 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
800 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
803 Roger Sayle for improvements to constant folding and GCC's RTL optimizers
804 as well as for fixing numerous bugs.
807 Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ@.
810 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
813 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
816 Tobias Schl@"uter for work on GNU Fortran.
819 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
820 work in the reload pass, serving as release manager for
821 GCC 2.95.3, and work on the Blackfin and C6X ports.
824 Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++---especially application
825 testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release
826 criteria---and libstdc++ header file tweaks.
829 Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.
832 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
835 Lars Segerlund for work on GNU Fortran.
838 Dodji Seketeli for numerous C++ bug fixes and debug info improvements.
841 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
842 contributions and RTEMS testing.
845 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
848 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
849 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
850 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
853 Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from
854 the LWG (thereby keeping GCC in line with updates from the ISO)@.
857 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
861 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
864 Trevor Smigiel for contributing the SPU port.
867 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
870 Danny Smith for his major efforts on the Mingw (and Cygwin) ports.
873 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
876 Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++
877 testsuite entries. Also for providing the patch to G77 to add
878 rudimentary support for @code{INTEGER*1}, @code{INTEGER*2}, and
882 Zdenek Sojka for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting
886 Jayant Sonar for contributing the CR16 port.
889 Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique.
892 Richard Stallman, for writing the original GCC and launching the GNU project.
895 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
896 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
899 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
902 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
905 Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
908 John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.
911 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, G++ contributions over the years and more
912 recently his vxworks contributions
915 Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.
918 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
921 Ian Lance Taylor for the Go frontend, the initial mips16 and mips64
922 support, general configury hacking, fixincludes, etc.
925 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU@.
928 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
931 Philipp Thomas for random bug fixes throughout the compiler
934 Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD@.
937 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
938 language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
941 Michael Tiemann for random bug fixes, the first instruction scheduler,
942 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
943 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
946 Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.
949 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
952 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
953 definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
956 Daniel Towner and Hariharan Sandanagobalane contributed and
957 maintain the picoChip port.
960 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java
961 contributions and libgcj maintainership.
964 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
968 Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes.
971 Andy Vaught for the design and initial implementation of the GNU Fortran
975 Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their
976 associated configure steps.
979 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
982 Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML
986 Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
990 Krister Walfridsson for random bug fixes.
993 Feng Wang for contributions to GNU Fortran.
996 Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files
997 work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time
1001 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
1002 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
1003 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
1006 Ulrich Weigand for work on the s390 port.
1009 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bug fixes.
1012 Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ@.
1015 Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.
1018 Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with
1022 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
1025 Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
1028 Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
1029 problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
1030 reduction and other loop optimizations.
1033 Paul Woegerer and Tal Agmon for the CRX port.
1036 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
1039 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
1042 Canqun Yang for work on GNU Fortran.
1045 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
1046 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
1049 Kevin Zachmann helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
1052 Ayal Zaks for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS).
1055 Xiaoqiang Zhang for work on GNU Fortran.
1058 Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.
1062 The following people are recognized for their contributions to GNAT,
1063 the Ada front end of GCC:
1209 The following people are recognized for their contributions of new
1210 features, bug reports, testing and integration of classpath/libgcj for
1214 Lillian Angel for @code{JTree} implementation and lots Free Swing
1215 additions and bug fixes.
1218 Wolfgang Baer for @code{GapContent} bug fixes.
1221 Anthony Balkissoon for @code{JList}, Free Swing 1.5 updates and mouse event
1222 fixes, lots of Free Swing work including @code{JTable} editing.
1225 Stuart Ballard for RMI constant fixes.
1228 Goffredo Baroncelli for @code{HTTPURLConnection} fixes.
1231 Gary Benson for @code{MessageFormat} fixes.
1234 Daniel Bonniot for @code{Serialization} fixes.
1237 Chris Burdess for lots of gnu.xml and http protocol fixes, @code{StAX}
1238 and @code{DOM xml:id} support.
1241 Ka-Hing Cheung for @code{TreePath} and @code{TreeSelection} fixes.
1244 Archie Cobbs for build fixes, VM interface updates,
1245 @code{URLClassLoader} updates.
1248 Kelley Cook for build fixes.
1251 Martin Cordova for Suggestions for better @code{SocketTimeoutException}.
1254 David Daney for @code{BitSet} bug fixes, @code{HttpURLConnection}
1255 rewrite and improvements.
1258 Thomas Fitzsimmons for lots of upgrades to the gtk+ AWT and Cairo 2D
1259 support. Lots of imageio framework additions, lots of AWT and Free
1263 Jeroen Frijters for @code{ClassLoader} and nio cleanups, serialization fixes,
1264 better @code{Proxy} support, bug fixes and IKVM integration.
1267 Santiago Gala for @code{AccessControlContext} fixes.
1270 Nicolas Geoffray for @code{VMClassLoader} and @code{AccessController}
1274 David Gilbert for @code{basic} and @code{metal} icon and plaf support
1275 and lots of documenting, Lots of Free Swing and metal theme
1276 additions. @code{MetalIconFactory} implementation.
1279 Anthony Green for @code{MIDI} framework, @code{ALSA} and @code{DSSI}
1283 Andrew Haley for @code{Serialization} and @code{URLClassLoader} fixes,
1287 Kim Ho for @code{JFileChooser} implementation.
1290 Andrew John Hughes for @code{Locale} and net fixes, URI RFC2986
1291 updates, @code{Serialization} fixes, @code{Properties} XML support and
1292 generic branch work, VMIntegration guide update.
1295 Bastiaan Huisman for @code{TimeZone} bug fixing.
1298 Andreas Jaeger for mprec updates.
1301 Paul Jenner for better @option{-Werror} support.
1304 Ito Kazumitsu for @code{NetworkInterface} implementation and updates.
1307 Roman Kennke for @code{BoxLayout}, @code{GrayFilter} and
1308 @code{SplitPane}, plus bug fixes all over. Lots of Free Swing work
1309 including styled text.
1312 Simon Kitching for @code{String} cleanups and optimization suggestions.
1315 Michael Koch for configuration fixes, @code{Locale} updates, bug and
1319 Guilhem Lavaux for configuration, thread and channel fixes and Kaffe
1320 integration. JCL native @code{Pointer} updates. Logger bug fixes.
1323 David Lichteblau for JCL support library global/local reference
1327 Aaron Luchko for JDWP updates and documentation fixes.
1330 Ziga Mahkovec for @code{Graphics2D} upgraded to Cairo 0.5 and new regex
1334 Sven de Marothy for BMP imageio support, CSS and @code{TextLayout}
1335 fixes. @code{GtkImage} rewrite, 2D, awt, free swing and date/time fixes and
1336 implementing the Qt4 peers.
1339 Casey Marshall for crypto algorithm fixes, @code{FileChannel} lock,
1340 @code{SystemLogger} and @code{FileHandler} rotate implementations, NIO
1341 @code{FileChannel.map} support, security and policy updates.
1344 Bryce McKinlay for RMI work.
1347 Audrius Meskauskas for lots of Free Corba, RMI and HTML work plus
1348 testing and documenting.
1351 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo for build fixes.
1354 Rainer Orth for build fixes.
1357 Andrew Overholt for @code{File} locking fixes.
1360 Ingo Proetel for @code{Image}, @code{Logger} and @code{URLClassLoader}
1364 Olga Rodimina for @code{MenuSelectionManager} implementation.
1367 Jan Roehrich for @code{BasicTreeUI} and @code{JTree} fixes.
1370 Julian Scheid for documentation updates and gjdoc support.
1373 Christian Schlichtherle for zip fixes and cleanups.
1376 Robert Schuster for documentation updates and beans fixes,
1377 @code{TreeNode} enumerations and @code{ActionCommand} and various
1378 fixes, XML and URL, AWT and Free Swing bug fixes.
1381 Keith Seitz for lots of JDWP work.
1384 Christian Thalinger for 64-bit cleanups, Configuration and VM
1385 interface fixes and @code{CACAO} integration, @code{fdlibm} updates.
1388 Gael Thomas for @code{VMClassLoader} boot packages support suggestions.
1391 Andreas Tobler for Darwin and Solaris testing and fixing, @code{Qt4}
1392 support for Darwin/OS X, @code{Graphics2D} support, @code{gtk+}
1396 Dalibor Topic for better @code{DEBUG} support, build cleanups and
1397 Kaffe integration. @code{Qt4} build infrastructure, @code{SHA1PRNG}
1398 and @code{GdkPixbugDecoder} updates.
1401 Tom Tromey for Eclipse integration, generics work, lots of bug fixes
1402 and gcj integration including coordinating The Big Merge.
1405 Mark Wielaard for bug fixes, packaging and release management,
1406 @code{Clipboard} implementation, system call interrupts and network
1407 timeouts and @code{GdkPixpufDecoder} fixes.
1412 In addition to the above, all of which also contributed time and energy in
1413 testing GCC, we would like to thank the following for their contributions
1418 Michael Abd-El-Malek
1487 Charles-Antoine Gauthier
1652 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, provides
1653 feedback and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first