1 @c Copyright (C) 1988,1989,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001
2 @c Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 @c This is part of the GCC manual.
4 @c For copying conditions, see the file gcc.texi.
6 The GCC project would like to thank its many contributors. Without them the
7 project would not have been nearly as successful as it has been. Any omissions
8 in this list are accidental. Feel free to contact
9 @email{law@@redhat.com} if you have been left out
10 or some of your contributions are not listed. Please keep this list in
16 Analog Devices helped implement the support for complex data types
20 James van Artsdalen wrote the code that makes efficient use of
21 the Intel 80387 register stack.
24 Alasdair Baird for various bugfixes.
27 Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front-end.
30 Neil Booth for various work on cpplib.
33 Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
34 improvements to our infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
35 and Java front end implementations. Initial implementations of
36 cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library
40 Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
43 Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
46 Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
49 Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
52 Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
55 Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
58 Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
61 Craig Burley for leadership of the Fortran effort.
64 John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
65 previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
68 Steve Chamberlain wrote the support for the Hitachi SH and H8 processors
69 and the PicoJava processor.
72 Scott Christley for his ObjC contributions.
75 Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
78 Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and other random
82 Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing.
85 Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
89 Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
92 Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
95 Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
96 that print a copy of their source.
99 Ulrich Drepper for his work on the C++ runtime libraries, glibc,
100 testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99 support, CFG dumping support, etc.
103 Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM.
106 David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee,
107 ongoing work with the RS6000/PowerPC port, and help cleaning up Haifa
111 Paul Eggert for random hacking all over gcc.
114 Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements.
117 Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
118 own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
121 Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
124 Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
128 Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
131 Peter Gerwinski for various bugfixes and the Pascal front end.
134 Kaveh Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee and
135 amazing work to make @samp{-W -Wall} useful.
138 Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
141 Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
142 multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
143 support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
144 via the steering committee.
147 Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work.
150 Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
153 Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
154 tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
155 the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
156 Intel 386 and 860 support.
159 Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
160 warnings and assorted bugfixes.
163 Andrew Haley for his Java work.
166 Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
169 Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
170 the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
174 Kate Hedstrom for staking the g77 folks with an initial testsuite.
177 Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC and alpha work, loop opts, and
178 generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for years, flow
179 rewrite and lots of stuff I've forgotten.
182 Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
183 the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
186 Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
187 of testing an bugfixing, particularly of our configury code.
190 Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
193 Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
196 Christian Iseli for various bugfixes.
199 Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
202 Lee Iverson for random fixes and mips testing.
205 Andreas Jaeger for various fixes to the MIPS port
208 Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations.
211 J. Kean Johnston for OpenServer support.
214 Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
217 David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS.
220 Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for Linux.
223 Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with g++.
226 Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
230 Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
231 Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
232 Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
233 instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
234 processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
235 strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
236 code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
237 elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
238 head maintainer of GCC for several years.
241 Mumit Khan for various contributions to the cygwin and mingw32 ports and
242 maintaining binary releases for Windows hosts.
245 Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
248 Mark Klein for PA improvements.
251 Thomas Koenig for various bugfixes.
254 Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
257 Benjamin Kosnik for his g++ work.
260 Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
264 Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
265 entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
266 handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
267 fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
270 Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
271 with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
274 Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
277 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for improvements to demangler and various c++ fixes.
280 Warren Levy major work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and random
281 work on the Java front-end.
284 Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the Mips cpu.
287 Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
290 Weiwen Liu for testing and various bugfixes.
293 Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
297 Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
298 and various C++ improvements including namespace support.
301 H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
302 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the Linux ports working.
305 Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
308 Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
309 various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
312 Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC
313 hacking improvements to compile-time performance and overall knowledge
314 and direction in the area of instruction scheduling.
317 Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
320 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS powerpc, haifa,
321 ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
324 Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
328 David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
329 SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
333 Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
336 Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
337 C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
338 ISO "restrict" support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.0.
341 Alan Modra for various Linux bits and testing.
344 Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
345 maintainance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
348 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
349 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
350 services, ftp services, etc etc.
353 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
354 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC Linux
358 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements.
361 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
362 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
363 than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
366 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
369 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
372 Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
373 C99 support, and continous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
376 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3.
379 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective C
383 Hans-Peter Nilsson for improvements to the search engine
384 setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
387 Geoff Noer for this work on getting cygwin native builds working.
390 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
391 amazing testing work.
394 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
397 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to our o32
398 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, etc.
401 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
404 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for his Java work.
407 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
410 Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
411 out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
412 taking care of documentation maintainance in general.
415 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the ObjC front end and runtime libraries.
418 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, mips ports and various
419 cleanups in the compiler.
422 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
425 Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions and maintenance of libstdc++-v3,
426 including valarray implementation and limits support.
429 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
433 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
436 Ken Rose for fixes to our delay slot filling code.
439 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
442 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
445 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
448 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
451 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
454 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
455 work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
459 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
462 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
463 contributions and RTEMS testing.
466 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
469 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
470 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
471 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
474 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
478 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
481 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
484 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
487 Scott Snyder for various fixes.
490 Richard Stallman, for writing the original gcc and launching the GNU project.
493 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
494 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
497 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
500 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
503 Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
506 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, g++ contributions over the years and more
507 recently his vxworks contributions
510 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
513 Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking,
517 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper cpu.
520 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for Linux.
523 Philipp Thomas for random bugfixes throughout the compiler
526 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective C
530 Michael Tiemann for random bugfixes the first instruction scheduler,
531 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, sparc and M88k
532 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
535 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
538 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
539 definitions, and of the Vax machine description.
542 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and his Java work.
545 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
549 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
552 Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
556 Krister Walfridsson for random bugfixes.
559 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
560 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
561 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
564 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bugfixes.
567 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
570 Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
571 problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
572 reduction and other loop optimizations.
575 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
578 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
581 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
582 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
585 Kevin Zachmann helped ported GCC to the Tahoe.
590 We'd also like to thank the folks who have contributed time and energy in
700 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug
701 reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.