1 @c Copyright (C) 1988,1989,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,
2 @c 2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 @c This is part of the GCC manual.
4 @c For copying conditions, see the file gcc.texi.
7 @unnumbered Contributors to GCC
10 The GCC project would like to thank its many contributors. Without them the
11 project would not have been nearly as successful as it has been. Any omissions
12 in this list are accidental. Feel free to contact
13 @email{law@@redhat.com} or @email{gerald@@pfeifer.com} if you have been left
14 out or some of your contributions are not listed. Please keep this list in
20 Analog Devices helped implement the support for complex data types
24 John David Anglin for threading-related fixes and improvements to
25 libstdc++-v3, and the HP-UX port.
28 James van Artsdalen wrote the code that makes efficient use of
29 the Intel 80387 register stack.
32 Abramo and Roberto Bagnara for the SysV68 Motorola 3300 Delta Series
36 Alasdair Baird for various bug fixes.
39 Giovanni Bajo for analyzing lots of complicated C++ problem reports.
42 Peter Barada for his work to improve code generation for new
46 Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end.
49 Godmar Back for his Java improvements and encouragement.
52 Scott Bambrough for help porting the Java compiler.
55 Wolfgang Bangerth for processing tons of bug reports.
58 Jon Beniston for his Microsoft Windows port of Java.
61 Daniel Berlin for better DWARF2 support, faster/better optimizations,
62 improved alias analysis, plus migrating GCC to Bugzilla.
65 Geoff Berry for his Java object serialization work and various patches.
68 Uros Bizjak for the implementation of x87 math built-in functions and
69 for various middle end and i386 back end improvements and bugfixes.
72 Eric Blake for helping to make GCJ and libgcj conform to the
76 Janne Blomqvist for contributions to GNU Fortran.
79 Segher Boessenkool for various fixes.
82 Hans-J. Boehm for his @uref{http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/,,
83 garbage collector}, IA-64 libffi port, and other Java work.
86 Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other
87 miscellaneous clean-ups.
90 Steven Bosscher for integrating the GNU Fortran front end into GCC and for
91 contributing to the tree-ssa branch.
94 Eric Botcazou for fixing middle- and backend bugs left and right.
97 Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
98 improvements to the infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
99 front end implementation. Initial implementations of
100 cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++)
101 maintainer. Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of GCJ@.
104 Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
107 Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
110 Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
113 Paul Brook for work on the ARM architecture and maintaining GNU Fortran.
116 Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
119 Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
122 Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
125 Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ@.
128 Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
131 Craig Burley for leadership of the G77 Fortran effort.
134 Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++.
137 Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to
138 the C++ strings, streambufs and formatted I/O, hard detective work on
139 the frustrating localization issues, and keeping up with the problem reports.
142 John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
143 previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
146 Stephane Carrez for 68HC11 and 68HC12 ports.
149 Steve Chamberlain for support for the Renesas SH and H8 processors
150 and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.
153 Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ@.
156 John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches.
159 Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
162 Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.
165 Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
168 The @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/,,GNU Classpath project}
169 for all of their merged runtime code.
172 Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and
173 other random hacking.
176 Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings.
179 R. Kelley Cook for making GCC buildable from a read-only directory as
180 well as other miscellaneous build process and documentation clean-ups.
183 Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing.
186 Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
190 Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
193 Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
196 Paul Dale for his work to add uClinux platform support to the
200 Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
201 that print a copy of their source.
204 Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.
207 Bud Davis for work on the G77 and GNU Fortran compilers.
210 Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes.
213 DJ Delorie for the DJGPP port, build and libiberty maintenance,
214 various bug fixes, and the M32C port.
217 Arnaud Desitter for helping to debug GNU Fortran.
220 Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to G++, contributions and
221 maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3,
222 including @code{valarray<>}, @code{complex<>}, maintaining the numerics library
223 (including that pesky @code{<limits>} :-) and keeping up-to-date anything
227 Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99
228 support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime
229 libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and
230 maintaining @code{complex<>}, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration
231 architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.
234 Zdenek Dvorak for a new loop unroller and various fixes.
237 Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
240 David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work
241 with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes,
242 doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands, and for
243 ensuring GCC properly keeps working on AIX@.
246 Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in
250 Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery,
251 documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional
252 iostream bug fix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
255 Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
258 Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++
259 configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.
262 Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.
265 Christian Ehrhardt for dealing with bug reports.
268 Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
269 own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
272 Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
275 Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
279 Christopher Faylor for his work on the Cygwin port and for caring and
280 feeding the gcc.gnu.org box and saving its users tons of spam.
283 Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
286 Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portuguese translation of the GCJ FAQ@.
289 Peter Gerwinski for various bug fixes and the Pascal front end.
292 Kaveh R.@: Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee, amazing
293 work to make @samp{-W -Wall -W* -Werror} useful, and continuously
294 testing GCC on a plethora of platforms. Kaveh extends his gratitude to
295 the @uref{http://www.caip.rutgers.edu,,CAIP Center} at Rutgers
296 University for providing him with computing resources to work on Free
297 Software since the late 1980s.
300 John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.
303 Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
306 Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
307 multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
308 support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
309 via the steering committee.
312 Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work.
315 Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug Java code.
318 Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
321 Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
322 tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
323 the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
324 Intel 386 and 860 support.
327 Mostafa Hagog for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS) and post reload GCSE@.
330 Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
331 warnings and assorted bug fixes.
334 Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
337 Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
340 Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
341 the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
345 Dara Hazeghi for wading through myriads of target-specific bug reports.
348 Kate Hedstrom for staking the G77 folks with an initial testsuite.
351 Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, ia32, and ia64 work, loop
352 opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
353 years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
357 Aldy Hernandez for working on the PowerPC port, SIMD support, and
361 Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
362 the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
365 Kazu Hirata for caring and feeding the Renesas H8/300 port and various fixes.
368 Katherine Holcomb for work on GNU Fortran.
371 Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
372 of testing and bug fixing, particularly of GCC configury code.
375 Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
378 Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
381 Falk Hueffner for working on C and optimization bug reports.
384 Bernardo Innocenti for his m68k work, including merging of
385 ColdFire improvements and uClinux support.
388 Christian Iseli for various bug fixes.
391 Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
394 Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
397 Andreas Jaeger for testing and benchmarking of GCC and various bug fixes.
400 Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
401 as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
405 Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes, her quality improvement
406 sidetracks, and web page maintenance.
409 Kean Johnston for SCO OpenServer support and various fixes.
412 Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
413 Kenner's ``toy'' language.
416 Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation.
419 Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
422 Steven G. Kargl for work on GNU Fortran.
425 David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
428 Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bug fixes and optimizations of
429 strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.
432 Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
433 and his automatic regression tester.
436 Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with G++ and for a lot of early work
437 in just about every part of libstdc++.
440 Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
444 Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
445 Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
446 Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
447 instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
448 processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
449 strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
450 code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
451 elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
452 head maintainer of GCC for several years.
455 Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and
456 maintaining binary releases for Microsoft Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++
457 porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32.
460 Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
463 Mark Klein for PA improvements.
466 Thomas Koenig for various bug fixes.
469 Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
472 Benjamin Kosnik for his G++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
475 Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
479 Asher Langton and Mike Kumbera for contributing Cray pointer support
480 to GNU Fortran, and for other GNU Fortran improvements.
483 Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
484 entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
485 handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
486 fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
489 Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
490 with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
493 Victor Leikehman for work on GNU Fortran.
496 Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
499 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for C++ improvements including template as template
500 parameter support, and many C++ fixes.
503 Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
504 random work on the Java front end.
507 Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU@.
510 Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and
514 Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
517 Weiwen Liu for testing and various bug fixes.
520 Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
524 Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
525 various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of
526 assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges.
529 H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
530 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
533 Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
536 Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
537 various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
540 Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking
541 improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and
542 direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and
543 implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler.
546 Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
549 Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and
550 improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.
553 All of the Mauve project
554 @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/mauve/THANKS?rev=1.2&cvsroot=mauve&only_with_tag=HEAD,,contributors},
558 Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.
561 Adam Megacz for his work on the Microsoft Windows port of GCJ@.
564 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
565 powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
568 Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
572 Martin Michlmayr for testing GCC on several architectures using the
573 entire Debian archive.
576 David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
577 SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
581 Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
584 Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bug fixes, and turning the
585 entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.
588 Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
589 C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
590 ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.x.
593 Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
596 Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
597 maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
600 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
601 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
602 services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and
603 the backs of envelopes would have been@dots{} difficult.
606 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
607 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
611 Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.
614 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements, and for the initial
618 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
619 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
620 than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
623 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
626 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
629 Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
630 C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
633 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship
634 through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale
635 infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project
636 documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on
637 MT-safe string and shadow headers.
640 Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.
643 Nathanael Nerode for cleaning up the configuration/build process.
646 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
650 Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
651 engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
654 Geoff Noer for his work on getting cygwin native builds working.
657 Diego Novillo for his work on Tree SSA, OpenMP, SPEC performance
658 tracking web pages and assorted fixes.
661 David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
662 FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
666 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
667 amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy.
670 Stefan Olsson for work on mt_alloc.
673 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
676 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to GCC's o32
677 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
678 clean-ups and porting work, etc.
681 Hartmut Penner for work on the s390 port.
684 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
687 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and
688 continued Java maintainership.
691 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
694 Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
695 out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
696 taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
699 Andrew Pinski for processing bug reports by the dozen.
702 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
706 Jerry Quinn for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O@.
709 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
710 cleanups in the compiler.
713 Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT@.
716 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
720 Volker Reichelt for keeping up with the problem reports.
723 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
727 Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD
728 port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical
729 threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems,
730 as well as keeping GCC properly working on FreeBSD and continuous testing.
733 Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
736 Ola R@"onnerup for work on mt_alloc.
739 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
742 David Ronis inspired and encouraged Craig to rewrite the G77
743 documentation in texinfo format by contributing a first pass at a
744 translation of the old @file{g77-0.5.16/f/DOC} file.
747 Ken Rose for fixes to GCC's delay slot filling code.
750 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
753 P@'etur Run@'olfsson for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O and
754 large file support in C++ filebuf.
757 Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits,
758 Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support.
761 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
764 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
767 Roger Sayle for improvements to constant folding and GCC's RTL optimizers
768 as well as for fixing numerous bugs.
771 Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ@.
774 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
777 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
780 Tobias Schl@"uter for work on GNU Fortran.
783 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
784 work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
788 Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++---especially application
789 testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release
790 criteria---and libstdc++ header file tweaks.
793 Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.
796 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
799 Lars Segerlund for work on GNU Fortran.
802 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
803 contributions and RTEMS testing.
806 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
809 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
810 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
811 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
814 Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from
815 the LWG (thereby keeping GCC in line with updates from the ISO)@.
818 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
822 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
825 Trevor Smigiel for contributing the SPU port.
828 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
831 Danny Smith for his major efforts on the Mingw (and Cygwin) ports.
834 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
837 Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++
838 testsuite entries. Also for providing the patch to G77 to add
839 rudimentary support for @code{INTEGER*1}, @code{INTEGER*2}, and
843 Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique.
846 Richard Stallman, for writing the original GCC and launching the GNU project.
849 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
850 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
853 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
856 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
859 Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
862 John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.
865 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, G++ contributions over the years and more
866 recently his vxworks contributions
869 Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.
872 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
875 Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking,
879 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU@.
882 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
885 Philipp Thomas for random bug fixes throughout the compiler
888 Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD@.
891 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
892 language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
895 Michael Tiemann for random bug fixes, the first instruction scheduler,
896 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
897 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
900 Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.
903 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
906 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
907 definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
910 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java
911 contributions and libgcj maintainership.
914 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
918 Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes.
921 Andy Vaught for the design and initial implementation of the GNU Fortran
925 Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their
926 associated configure steps.
929 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
932 Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML
936 Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
940 Krister Walfridsson for random bug fixes.
943 Feng Wang for contributions to GNU Fortran.
946 Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files
947 work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time
951 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
952 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
953 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
956 Ulrich Weigand for work on the s390 port.
959 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bug fixes.
962 Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ@.
965 Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.
968 Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with
972 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
975 Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
978 Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
979 problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
980 reduction and other loop optimizations.
983 Paul Woegerer and Tal Agmon for the CRX port.
986 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
989 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
992 Canqun Yang for work on GNU Fortran.
995 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
996 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
999 Kevin Zachmann helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
1002 Ayal Zaks for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS).
1005 Xiaoqiang Zhang for work on GNU Fortran.
1008 Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.
1012 The following people are recognized for their contributions to GNAT,
1013 the Ada front end of GCC:
1159 The following people are recognized for their contributions of new
1160 features, bug reports, testing and integration of classpath/libgcj for
1164 Lillian Angel for @code{JTree} implementation and lots Free Swing
1165 additions and bugfixes.
1168 Wolfgang Baer for @code{GapContent} bugfixes.
1171 Anthony Balkissoon for @code{JList}, Free Swing 1.5 updates and mouse event
1172 fixes, lots of Free Swing work including @code{JTable} editing.
1175 Stuart Ballard for RMI constant fixes.
1178 Goffredo Baroncelli for @code{HTTPURLConnection} fixes.
1181 Gary Benson for @code{MessageFormat} fixes.
1184 Daniel Bonniot for @code{Serialization} fixes.
1187 Chris Burdess for lots of gnu.xml and http protocol fixes, @code{StAX}
1188 and @code{DOM xml:id} support.
1191 Ka-Hing Cheung for @code{TreePath} and @code{TreeSelection} fixes.
1194 Archie Cobbs for build fixes, VM interface updates,
1195 @code{URLClassLoader} updates.
1198 Kelley Cook for build fixes.
1201 Martin Cordova for Suggestions for better @code{SocketTimeoutException}.
1204 David Daney for @code{BitSet} bugfixes, @code{HttpURLConnection}
1205 rewrite and improvements.
1208 Thomas Fitzsimmons for lots of upgrades to the gtk+ AWT and Cairo 2D
1209 support. Lots of imageio framework additions, lots of AWT and Free
1213 Jeroen Frijters for @code{ClassLoader} and nio cleanups, serialization fixes,
1214 better @code{Proxy} support, bugfixes and IKVM integration.
1217 Santiago Gala for @code{AccessControlContext} fixes.
1220 Nicolas Geoffray for @code{VMClassLoader} and @code{AccessController}
1224 David Gilbert for @code{basic} and @code{metal} icon and plaf support
1225 and lots of documenting, Lots of Free Swing and metal theme
1226 additions. @code{MetalIconFactory} implementation.
1229 Anthony Green for @code{MIDI} framework, @code{ALSA} and @code{DSSI}
1233 Andrew Haley for @code{Serialization} and @code{URLClassLoader} fixes,
1237 Kim Ho for @code{JFileChooser} implementation.
1240 Andrew John Hughes for @code{Locale} and net fixes, URI RFC2986
1241 updates, @code{Serialization} fixes, @code{Properties} XML support and
1242 generic branch work, VMIntegration guide update.
1245 Bastiaan Huisman for @code{TimeZone} bugfixing.
1248 Andreas Jaeger for mprec updates.
1251 Paul Jenner for better @option{-Werror} support.
1254 Ito Kazumitsu for @code{NetworkInterface} implementation and updates.
1257 Roman Kennke for @code{BoxLayout}, @code{GrayFilter} and
1258 @code{SplitPane}, plus bugfixes all over. Lots of Free Swing work
1259 including styled text.
1262 Simon Kitching for @code{String} cleanups and optimization suggestions.
1265 Michael Koch for configuration fixes, @code{Locale} updates, bug and
1269 Guilhem Lavaux for configuration, thread and channel fixes and Kaffe
1270 integration. JCL native @code{Pointer} updates. Logger bugfixes.
1273 David Lichteblau for JCL support library global/local reference
1277 Aaron Luchko for JDWP updates and documentation fixes.
1280 Ziga Mahkovec for @code{Graphics2D} upgraded to Cairo 0.5 and new regex
1284 Sven de Marothy for BMP imageio support, CSS and @code{TextLayout}
1285 fixes. @code{GtkImage} rewrite, 2D, awt, free swing and date/time fixes and
1286 implementing the Qt4 peers.
1289 Casey Marshall for crypto algorithm fixes, @code{FileChannel} lock,
1290 @code{SystemLogger} and @code{FileHandler} rotate implementations, NIO
1291 @code{FileChannel.map} support, security and policy updates.
1294 Bryce McKinlay for RMI work.
1297 Audrius Meskauskas for lots of Free Corba, RMI and HTML work plus
1298 testing and documenting.
1301 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo for build fixes.
1304 Rainer Orth for build fixes.
1307 Andrew Overholt for @code{File} locking fixes.
1310 Ingo Proetel for @code{Image}, @code{Logger} and @code{URLClassLoader}
1314 Olga Rodimina for @code{MenuSelectionManager} implementation.
1317 Jan Roehrich for @code{BasicTreeUI} and @code{JTree} fixes.
1320 Julian Scheid for documentation updates and gjdoc support.
1323 Christian Schlichtherle for zip fixes and cleanups.
1326 Robert Schuster for documentation updates and beans fixes,
1327 @code{TreeNode} enumerations and @code{ActionCommand} and various
1328 fixes, XML and URL, AWT and Free Swing bugfixes.
1331 Keith Seitz for lots of JDWP work.
1334 Christian Thalinger for 64-bit cleanups, Configuration and VM
1335 interface fixes and @code{CACAO} integration, @code{fdlibm} updates.
1338 Gael Thomas for @code{VMClassLoader} boot packages support suggestions.
1341 Andreas Tobler for Darwin and Solaris testing and fixing, @code{Qt4}
1342 support for Darwin/OS X, @code{Graphics2D} support, @code{gtk+}
1346 Dalibor Topic for better @code{DEBUG} support, build cleanups and
1347 Kaffe integration. @code{Qt4} build infrastructure, @code{SHA1PRNG}
1348 and @code{GdkPixbugDecoder} updates.
1351 Tom Tromey for Eclipse integration, generics work, lots of bugfixes
1352 and gcj integration including coordinating The Big Merge.
1355 Mark Wielaard for bugfixes, packaging and release management,
1356 @code{Clipboard} implementation, system call interrupts and network
1357 timeouts and @code{GdkPixpufDecoder} fixes.
1362 In addition to the above, all of which also contributed time and energy in
1363 testing GCC, we would like to thank the following for their contributions
1368 Michael Abd-El-Malek
1434 Charles-Antoine Gauthier
1599 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug
1600 reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.