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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 Iain Buclaw for the D frontend.
145 Craig Burley for leadership of the G77 Fortran effort.
148 Tobias Burnus for contributions to GNU Fortran.
151 Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++.
154 Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to
155 the C++ strings, streambufs and formatted I/O, hard detective work on
156 the frustrating localization issues, and keeping up with the problem reports.
159 John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
160 previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
163 Stephane Carrez for 68HC11 and 68HC12 ports.
166 Steve Chamberlain for support for the Renesas SH and H8 processors
167 and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.
170 Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ@.
173 John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches.
176 Denis Chertykov for contributing and maintaining the AVR port, the first GCC port
177 for an 8-bit architecture.
180 Kito Cheng for his work on the RISC-V port, including bringing up the test
181 suite and maintenance.
184 Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
187 Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.
190 Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
193 The @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/,,GNU Classpath project}
194 for all of their merged runtime code.
197 Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r, msp430 rx work,
198 @option{--help}, and other random hacking.
201 Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings.
204 R. Kelley Cook for making GCC buildable from a read-only directory as
205 well as other miscellaneous build process and documentation clean-ups.
208 Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bug fixing.
211 Fran@,{c}ois-Xavier Coudert for contributions to GNU Fortran.
214 Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
218 Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
221 Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
224 Paul Dale for his work to add uClinux platform support to the
228 Palmer Dabbelt for his work maintaining the RISC-V port.
231 Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
232 that print a copy of their source.
235 Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.
238 Bud Davis for work on the G77 and GNU Fortran compilers.
241 Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes.
244 Jerry DeLisle for contributions to GNU Fortran.
247 DJ Delorie for the DJGPP port, build and libiberty maintenance,
248 various bug fixes, and the M32C, MeP, MSP430, and RL78 ports.
251 Arnaud Desitter for helping to debug GNU Fortran.
254 Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to G++, contributions and
255 maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3,
256 including @code{valarray<>}, @code{complex<>}, maintaining the numerics library
257 (including that pesky @code{<limits>} :-) and keeping up-to-date anything
261 Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99
262 support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime
263 libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and
264 maintaining @code{complex<>}, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration
265 architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.
268 Fran@,{c}ois Dumont for his work on libstdc++-v3, especially maintaining and
269 improving @code{debug-mode} and associative and unordered containers.
272 Zdenek Dvorak for a new loop unroller and various fixes.
275 Michael Eager for his work on the Xilinx MicroBlaze port.
278 Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
281 David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work
282 with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes,
283 doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands, and for
284 ensuring GCC properly keeps working on AIX@.
287 Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in
291 Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery,
292 documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional
293 iostream bug fix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
296 Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
299 Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++
300 configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.
303 Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.
306 Christian Ehrhardt for dealing with bug reports.
309 Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
310 own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
313 Revital Eres for work on the PowerPC 750CL port.
316 Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
319 Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
323 Christopher Faylor for his work on the Cygwin port and for caring and
324 feeding the gcc.gnu.org box and saving its users tons of spam.
327 Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
330 Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portuguese translation of the GCJ FAQ@.
333 Peter Gerwinski for various bug fixes and the Pascal front end.
336 Kaveh R.@: Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee, amazing
337 work to make @samp{-W -Wall -W* -Werror} useful, and
338 testing GCC on a plethora of platforms. Kaveh extends his gratitude to
339 the CAIP Center at Rutgers University for providing him with computing
340 resources to work on Free Software from the late 1980s to 2010.
343 John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.
346 Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
349 Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
350 multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
351 support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
352 via the steering committee.
355 Jonny Grant for improvements to @code{collect2's} @option{--help} documentation.
358 Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions, the moxie port, and
362 Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug Java code.
365 Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
368 Richard Biener for his ongoing middle-end contributions and bug fixes
369 and for release management.
372 Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
373 tools, the support for DWARF 1 symbolic debugging information, and much of
374 the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
375 Intel 386 and 860 support.
378 Sumanth Gundapaneni for contributing the CR16 port.
381 Mostafa Hagog for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS) and post reload GCSE@.
384 Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
385 warnings and assorted bug fixes.
388 Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
391 Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
394 Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
395 the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
399 Dara Hazeghi for wading through myriads of target-specific bug reports.
402 Kate Hedstrom for staking the G77 folks with an initial testsuite.
405 Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, ia32, and ia64 work, loop
406 opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
407 years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
411 Aldy Hernandez for working on the PowerPC port, SIMD support, and
415 Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
416 the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
419 Kazu Hirata for caring and feeding the Renesas H8/300 port and various fixes.
422 Katherine Holcomb for work on GNU Fortran.
425 Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
426 of testing and bug fixing, particularly of GCC configury code.
429 Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
432 Mat Hostetter for work on the TILE-Gx and TILEPro ports.
435 Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
438 Falk Hueffner for working on C and optimization bug reports.
441 Bernardo Innocenti for his m68k work, including merging of
442 ColdFire improvements and uClinux support.
445 Christian Iseli for various bug fixes.
448 Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
451 Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
454 Balaji V. Iyer for Cilk+ development and merging.
457 Andreas Jaeger for testing and benchmarking of GCC and various bug fixes.
460 Martin Jambor for his work on inter-procedural optimizations, the
461 switch conversion pass, and scalar replacement of aggregates.
464 Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
465 as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
469 Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes, her quality improvement
470 sidetracks, and web page maintenance.
473 Kean Johnston for SCO OpenServer support and various fixes.
476 Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
477 Kenner's ``toy'' language.
480 Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation.
483 Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
486 Steven G. Kargl for work on GNU Fortran.
489 David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
492 Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bug fixes and optimizations of
493 strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.
496 Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
497 and his automatic regression tester.
500 Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with G++ and for a lot of early work
501 in just about every part of libstdc++.
504 Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
508 Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
509 Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
510 Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
511 instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
512 processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
513 strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
514 code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
515 elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
516 head maintainer of GCC for several years.
519 Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and
520 maintaining binary releases for Microsoft Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++
521 porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32.
524 Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
527 Mark Klein for PA improvements.
530 Thomas Koenig for various bug fixes.
533 Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
536 Benjamin Kosnik for his G++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
539 Maxim Kuvyrkov for contributions to the instruction scheduler, the Android
540 and m68k/Coldfire ports, and optimizations.
543 Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
547 Asher Langton and Mike Kumbera for contributing Cray pointer support
548 to GNU Fortran, and for other GNU Fortran improvements.
551 Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
552 entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
553 handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
554 fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
557 Walter Lee for work on the TILE-Gx and TILEPro ports.
560 Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
561 with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
564 Victor Leikehman for work on GNU Fortran.
567 Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
570 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for C++ improvements including template as template
571 parameter support, and many C++ fixes.
574 Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
575 random work on the Java front end.
578 Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU@.
581 Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and
585 Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
588 Chen Liqin for various S+core related fixes/improvement, and for
589 maintaining the S+core port.
592 Martin Liska for his work on identical code folding, the sanitizers,
593 HSA, general bug fixing and for running automated regression testing of GCC
594 and reporting numerous bugs.
597 Weiwen Liu for testing and various bug fixes.
600 Manuel L@'opez-Ib@'a@~nez for improving @option{-Wconversion} and
601 many other diagnostics fixes and improvements.
604 Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
608 Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
609 various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of
610 assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges.
613 H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
614 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
617 Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
620 Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
621 various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
624 Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking
625 improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and
626 direction in the area of instruction scheduling, design and
627 implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler and
628 design and implementation of the integrated and local register allocators.
631 David Malcolm for his work on improving GCC diagnostics, JIT, self-tests
635 Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
638 John Marino for contributing the DragonFly BSD port.
641 Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and
642 improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.
645 Michael Matz for his work on dominance tree discovery, the x86-64 port,
646 link-time optimization framework and general optimization improvements.
649 All of the Mauve project contributors for Java test code.
652 Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.
655 Adam Megacz for his work on the Microsoft Windows port of GCJ@.
658 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
659 powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
662 Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
666 Martin Michlmayr for testing GCC on several architectures using the
667 entire Debian archive.
670 David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
671 SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
675 Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
678 Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bug fixes, and turning the
679 entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.
682 Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
683 C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
684 ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager from 2000
688 Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
691 Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
692 maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
695 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
696 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
697 services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and
698 the backs of envelopes would have been@dots{} difficult.
701 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
702 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
706 Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.
709 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements, and for the initial
713 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
714 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
715 than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
718 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
721 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
724 Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
725 C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
728 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship
729 through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale
730 infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project
731 documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on
732 MT-safe string and shadow headers.
735 Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.
738 Nathanael Nerode for cleaning up the configuration/build process.
741 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
745 Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
746 engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
749 Geoff Noer for his work on getting cygwin native builds working.
752 Vegard Nossum for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting
756 Diego Novillo for his work on Tree SSA, OpenMP, SPEC performance
757 tracking web pages, GIMPLE tuples, and assorted fixes.
760 David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
761 FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
765 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
766 amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy.
769 Stefan Olsson for work on mt_alloc.
772 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
775 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to GCC's o32
776 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
777 clean-ups and porting work, and maintaining the IRIX, Solaris 2, and
781 Steven Pemberton for his contribution of @file{enquire} which allowed GCC to
782 determine various properties of the floating point unit and generate
783 @file{float.h} in older versions of GCC.
786 Hartmut Penner for work on the s390 port.
789 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
792 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and
793 continued Java maintainership.
796 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
799 Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
800 out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
801 taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
804 Marek Polacek for his work on the C front end, the sanitizers and general
808 Andrew Pinski for processing bug reports by the dozen.
811 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
815 Jerry Quinn for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O@.
818 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
819 cleanups in the compiler.
822 Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT@.
825 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
829 John Regehr for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting
833 Volker Reichelt for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting
834 numerous bugs and for keeping up with the problem reports.
837 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
838 hacking and developing and maintaining the Epiphany port.
841 Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD
842 port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical
843 threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems,
844 as well as keeping GCC properly working on FreeBSD and continuous testing.
847 Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
850 Ola R@"onnerup for work on mt_alloc.
853 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
856 David Ronis inspired and encouraged Craig to rewrite the G77
857 documentation in texinfo format by contributing a first pass at a
858 translation of the old @file{g77-0.5.16/f/DOC} file.
861 Ken Rose for fixes to GCC's delay slot filling code.
864 Ira Rosen for her contributions to the auto-vectorizer.
867 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
870 P@'etur Run@'olfsson for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O and
871 large file support in C++ filebuf.
874 Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits,
875 Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support.
878 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
881 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
884 Roger Sayle for improvements to constant folding and GCC's RTL optimizers
885 as well as for fixing numerous bugs.
888 Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ@.
891 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
894 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
897 Tobias Schl@"uter for work on GNU Fortran.
900 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
901 work in the reload pass, serving as release manager for
902 GCC 2.95.3, and work on the Blackfin and C6X ports.
905 Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++---especially application
906 testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release
907 criteria---and libstdc++ header file tweaks.
910 Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.
913 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
916 Lars Segerlund for work on GNU Fortran.
919 Dodji Seketeli for numerous C++ bug fixes and debug info improvements.
922 Tim Shen for major work on @code{<regex>}.
925 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
926 contributions and RTEMS testing.
929 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
932 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
933 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
934 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
937 Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from
938 the LWG (thereby keeping GCC in line with updates from the ISO)@.
941 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
945 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
948 Trevor Smigiel for contributing the SPU port.
951 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
954 Danny Smith for his major efforts on the Mingw (and Cygwin) ports.
955 Retired from GCC maintainership August 2010, having mentored two
956 new maintainers into the role.
959 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
962 Ed Smith-Rowland for his continuous work on libstdc++-v3, special functions,
963 @code{<random>}, and various improvements to C++11 features.
966 Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++
967 testsuite entries. Also for providing the patch to G77 to add
968 rudimentary support for @code{INTEGER*1}, @code{INTEGER*2}, and
972 Zdenek Sojka for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting
976 Arseny Solokha for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting
980 Jayant Sonar for contributing the CR16 port.
983 Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique.
986 Richard Stallman, for writing the original GCC and launching the GNU project.
989 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
990 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
993 Gerhard Steinmetz for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting
997 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
1000 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
1003 Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
1006 John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.
1009 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, G++ contributions over the years and more
1010 recently his vxworks contributions
1013 Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.
1016 Zhendong Su for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting
1020 Chengnian Sun for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting
1024 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
1027 Ian Lance Taylor for the Go frontend, the initial mips16 and mips64
1028 support, general configury hacking, fixincludes, etc.
1031 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU@.
1034 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
1037 Paul Thomas for contributions to GNU Fortran.
1040 Philipp Thomas for random bug fixes throughout the compiler
1043 Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD@.
1046 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
1047 language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
1050 Michael Tiemann for random bug fixes, the first instruction scheduler,
1051 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
1052 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
1055 Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.
1058 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
1061 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
1062 definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
1065 Daniel Towner and Hariharan Sandanagobalane contributed and
1066 maintain the picoChip port.
1069 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java
1070 contributions and libgcj maintainership.
1073 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
1077 Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes.
1080 Andy Vaught for the design and initial implementation of the GNU Fortran
1084 Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their
1085 associated configure steps.
1088 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
1091 Andrew Waterman for contributing the RISC-V port, as well as maintaining it.
1094 Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML
1095 guidance and maintaining libstdc++.
1098 Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
1099 in time for GCC 3.0.
1102 Krister Walfridsson for random bug fixes.
1105 Feng Wang for contributions to GNU Fortran.
1108 Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files
1109 work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time
1110 header tree. Also, for starting and driving the @code{<regex>} effort.
1113 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
1114 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
1115 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
1118 Ulrich Weigand for work on the s390 port.
1121 Janus Weil for contributions to GNU Fortran.
1124 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bug fixes.
1127 Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ@.
1130 Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.
1133 Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with
1137 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
1140 Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
1143 Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
1144 problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
1145 reduction and other loop optimizations.
1148 Paul Woegerer and Tal Agmon for the CRX port.
1151 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
1154 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
1157 Chung-Ju Wu for his work on the Andes NDS32 port.
1160 Canqun Yang for work on GNU Fortran.
1163 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
1164 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
1167 Kevin Zachmann helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
1170 Ayal Zaks for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS).
1173 Qirun Zhang for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting
1177 Xiaoqiang Zhang for work on GNU Fortran.
1180 Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.
1184 The following people are recognized for their contributions to GNAT,
1185 the Ada front end of GCC:
1331 The following people are recognized for their contributions of new
1332 features, bug reports, testing and integration of classpath/libgcj for
1336 Lillian Angel for @code{JTree} implementation and lots Free Swing
1337 additions and bug fixes.
1340 Wolfgang Baer for @code{GapContent} bug fixes.
1343 Anthony Balkissoon for @code{JList}, Free Swing 1.5 updates and mouse event
1344 fixes, lots of Free Swing work including @code{JTable} editing.
1347 Stuart Ballard for RMI constant fixes.
1350 Goffredo Baroncelli for @code{HTTPURLConnection} fixes.
1353 Gary Benson for @code{MessageFormat} fixes.
1356 Daniel Bonniot for @code{Serialization} fixes.
1359 Chris Burdess for lots of gnu.xml and http protocol fixes, @code{StAX}
1360 and @code{DOM xml:id} support.
1363 Ka-Hing Cheung for @code{TreePath} and @code{TreeSelection} fixes.
1366 Archie Cobbs for build fixes, VM interface updates,
1367 @code{URLClassLoader} updates.
1370 Kelley Cook for build fixes.
1373 Martin Cordova for Suggestions for better @code{SocketTimeoutException}.
1376 David Daney for @code{BitSet} bug fixes, @code{HttpURLConnection}
1377 rewrite and improvements.
1380 Thomas Fitzsimmons for lots of upgrades to the gtk+ AWT and Cairo 2D
1381 support. Lots of imageio framework additions, lots of AWT and Free
1385 Jeroen Frijters for @code{ClassLoader} and nio cleanups, serialization fixes,
1386 better @code{Proxy} support, bug fixes and IKVM integration.
1389 Santiago Gala for @code{AccessControlContext} fixes.
1392 Nicolas Geoffray for @code{VMClassLoader} and @code{AccessController}
1396 David Gilbert for @code{basic} and @code{metal} icon and plaf support
1397 and lots of documenting, Lots of Free Swing and metal theme
1398 additions. @code{MetalIconFactory} implementation.
1401 Anthony Green for @code{MIDI} framework, @code{ALSA} and @code{DSSI}
1405 Andrew Haley for @code{Serialization} and @code{URLClassLoader} fixes,
1409 Kim Ho for @code{JFileChooser} implementation.
1412 Andrew John Hughes for @code{Locale} and net fixes, URI RFC2986
1413 updates, @code{Serialization} fixes, @code{Properties} XML support and
1414 generic branch work, VMIntegration guide update.
1417 Bastiaan Huisman for @code{TimeZone} bug fixing.
1420 Andreas Jaeger for mprec updates.
1423 Paul Jenner for better @option{-Werror} support.
1426 Ito Kazumitsu for @code{NetworkInterface} implementation and updates.
1429 Roman Kennke for @code{BoxLayout}, @code{GrayFilter} and
1430 @code{SplitPane}, plus bug fixes all over. Lots of Free Swing work
1431 including styled text.
1434 Simon Kitching for @code{String} cleanups and optimization suggestions.
1437 Michael Koch for configuration fixes, @code{Locale} updates, bug and
1441 Guilhem Lavaux for configuration, thread and channel fixes and Kaffe
1442 integration. JCL native @code{Pointer} updates. Logger bug fixes.
1445 David Lichteblau for JCL support library global/local reference
1449 Aaron Luchko for JDWP updates and documentation fixes.
1452 Ziga Mahkovec for @code{Graphics2D} upgraded to Cairo 0.5 and new regex
1456 Sven de Marothy for BMP imageio support, CSS and @code{TextLayout}
1457 fixes. @code{GtkImage} rewrite, 2D, awt, free swing and date/time fixes and
1458 implementing the Qt4 peers.
1461 Casey Marshall for crypto algorithm fixes, @code{FileChannel} lock,
1462 @code{SystemLogger} and @code{FileHandler} rotate implementations, NIO
1463 @code{FileChannel.map} support, security and policy updates.
1466 Bryce McKinlay for RMI work.
1469 Audrius Meskauskas for lots of Free Corba, RMI and HTML work plus
1470 testing and documenting.
1473 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo for build fixes.
1476 Rainer Orth for build fixes.
1479 Andrew Overholt for @code{File} locking fixes.
1482 Ingo Proetel for @code{Image}, @code{Logger} and @code{URLClassLoader}
1486 Olga Rodimina for @code{MenuSelectionManager} implementation.
1489 Jan Roehrich for @code{BasicTreeUI} and @code{JTree} fixes.
1492 Julian Scheid for documentation updates and gjdoc support.
1495 Christian Schlichtherle for zip fixes and cleanups.
1498 Robert Schuster for documentation updates and beans fixes,
1499 @code{TreeNode} enumerations and @code{ActionCommand} and various
1500 fixes, XML and URL, AWT and Free Swing bug fixes.
1503 Keith Seitz for lots of JDWP work.
1506 Christian Thalinger for 64-bit cleanups, Configuration and VM
1507 interface fixes and @code{CACAO} integration, @code{fdlibm} updates.
1510 Gael Thomas for @code{VMClassLoader} boot packages support suggestions.
1513 Andreas Tobler for Darwin and Solaris testing and fixing, @code{Qt4}
1514 support for Darwin/OS X, @code{Graphics2D} support, @code{gtk+}
1518 Dalibor Topic for better @code{DEBUG} support, build cleanups and
1519 Kaffe integration. @code{Qt4} build infrastructure, @code{SHA1PRNG}
1520 and @code{GdkPixbugDecoder} updates.
1523 Tom Tromey for Eclipse integration, generics work, lots of bug fixes
1524 and gcj integration including coordinating The Big Merge.
1527 Mark Wielaard for bug fixes, packaging and release management,
1528 @code{Clipboard} implementation, system call interrupts and network
1529 timeouts and @code{GdkPixpufDecoder} fixes.
1534 In addition to the above, all of which also contributed time and energy in
1535 testing GCC, we would like to thank the following for their contributions
1540 Michael Abd-El-Malek
1609 Charles-Antoine Gauthier
1774 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, provides
1775 feedback and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first