1 The GCC project would like to thank its many contributors. Without them the
2 project would not have been nearly as successful as it has been. Any omissions
3 in this list are accidental. Feel free to contact
4 @code{law@@cygnus.com} if you have been left out
5 or some of your contributions are not listed. Please keep this list in
11 Analog Devices helped implement the support for complex data types
15 James van Artsdalen wrote the code that makes efficient use of
16 the Intel 80387 register stack.
19 Alasdair Baird for various bugfixes.
22 Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front-end.
25 Per Bothner for various improvements to our infrastructure for
26 supporting new languages. Chill and Java.
29 Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
32 Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
35 Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
38 Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
41 Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
44 Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
47 Joe Buck for his guidance and leadership via the steering committee.
50 Craig Burley for leadership of the Fortran effort.
53 John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
54 direction via the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
57 Steve Chamberlain wrote the support for the Hitachi SH and H8 processors
58 and the PicoJava processor.
61 Scott Christley for his ObjC contributions.
64 Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
67 Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, --help, and other random
71 Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing.
74 Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
78 Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
81 Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
84 Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
85 that print a copy of their source.
88 Ulrich Drepper for his work on the C++ runtime libraries, glibc,
89 testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C9X support, CFG dumping support, etc.
92 Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM.
95 David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee,
96 ongoing work with the RS6000/PowerPC port, and help cleaning up Haifa
100 Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements.
103 Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
104 own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
107 Paul Eggert for random hacking all over gcc.
110 Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
113 Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
117 Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
120 Peter Gerwinski for various bugfixes and the Pascal front end.
123 Anthony Green for his -Os contributions and Java front end work.
126 Kaveh Ghazi for overall direction via the steering committee and
127 amazing work to make -W -Wall useful.
130 Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
133 Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
134 multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long support,
135 and improved leaf function register allocation.
138 Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
141 Ron Guilmette implemented the @code{protoize} and @code{unprotoize}
142 tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
143 the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
144 Intel 386 and 860 support.
147 Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
148 warnings and assorted bugfixes.
151 Andrew Haley for his Java work.
154 Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
157 Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
158 the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
162 Kate Hedstrom for staking the g77 folks with an initial testsuite.
165 Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC and alpha work, loop opts, and
166 generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for years, flow
167 rewrite and lots of stuff I've forgotten.
170 Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
171 the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
174 Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
175 of testing an bugfixing, particularly of our configury code.
178 Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
181 Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
184 Christian Iseli for various bugfixes.
187 Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
190 Lee Iverson for random fixes and mips testing.
193 Andreas Jaeger for various fixes to the MIPS port
196 Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations.
199 J. Kean Johnston for OpenServer support.
202 Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
205 David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS.
208 Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
209 Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
210 Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
211 instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
212 processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
213 strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
214 code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
215 elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
216 head maintainer of GCC for several years.
219 Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
222 Mark Klein for PA improvements.
225 Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for Linux.
228 Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with g++.
231 Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
235 Mumit Khan for various contributions to the cygwin and mingw32 ports and
236 maintaining binary releases for Windows hosts.
239 Thomas Koenig for various bugfixes.
242 Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
245 Benjamin Kosnik for his g++ work.
248 Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
251 Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
255 Jeff Law for coordinating the entire project, rolling out snapshots
256 and releases, handling merges from GCC2, and random but extensive
260 Marc Lehmann for his guidance via the steering committee and helping
261 with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
264 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for improvements to demangler and various c++ fixes.
267 Warren Levy major work on libgjc (Java Runtime Library) and random
268 work on the Java front-end.
271 Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the Mips cpu.
274 Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
277 Weiwen Liu for testing and various bugfixes.
280 Martin von Löwis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
281 and various C++ improvements including namespace support.
284 Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
288 H.J. Lu for his contributions to the steering committee, many x86
289 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the Linux ports working.
292 Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
293 various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
296 Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
299 Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC
300 hacking improvements to compile-time performance and overall knowledge
301 and direction in the area of instruction scheduling.
304 Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
307 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS powerpc, haifa,
308 ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
311 Jason Merrill for leading the g++ effort.
314 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
315 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine -- mail, web
316 services, ftp services, etc etc.
319 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements.
322 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
323 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
324 than 64 bits and for ISO C9X support.
327 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
330 David Miller for overall direction via the steering committee, lots of
331 SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
335 Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
338 Mark Mitchell for mountains of
339 C++ work, load/store hoisting out of
340 loops and alias analysis improvements, ISO "restrict" support.
343 Alan Modra for various Linux bits and testing.
346 Toon Moene for overall leadership via the steering committee, and his
347 ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
350 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
351 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC Linux
355 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
358 Joseph Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port.
361 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3.
364 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective C
368 Hans-Peter Nilsson for improvements to the search engine
369 setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
372 Geoff Noer for this work on getting cygwin native builds working.
375 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
376 amazing testing work.
379 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to our o32
380 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, etc.
383 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
386 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
389 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for his Java work.
392 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
395 Gerald Pfeifer for maintenance of the web pages and pointing out lots
396 of problems we need to solve.
399 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the ObjC front end and runtime libraries.
402 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, mips ports and various
403 cleanups in the compiler.
406 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
409 Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions and maintenance of libstdc++-v3,
410 including valarray implementation and limits support.
413 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
417 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
420 Ken Rose for fixes to our delay slot filling code.
423 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
426 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
429 Graham Stott. for various infrastructure improvements.
432 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
435 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
438 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
441 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
444 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
445 work in the reload pass.
448 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
452 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
453 contributions and RTEMS testing.
456 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
459 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
460 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
461 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
464 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
467 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
470 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
473 Scott Snyder for various fixes.
476 Richard Stallman, for writing the original gcc and launching the GNU project.
479 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
480 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
483 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
486 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
489 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, g++ contributions over the years and more
490 recently his vxworks contributions
493 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
496 Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking,
500 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper cpu.
503 Michael Tiemann for random bugfixes the first instruction scheduler,
504 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, sparc and M88k
505 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
508 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for Linux.
511 Philipp Thomas for random bugfixes throughout the compiler
514 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective C
518 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
521 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
522 definitions, and of the Vax machine description.
525 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and his Java work.
528 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
532 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
535 Krister Walfridsson for random bugfixes.
538 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
539 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
540 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
543 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
546 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bugfixes.
549 Jim Wilson for tackling hard problems in various places that nobody else
550 wanted to work on, strength reduction and other loop optimizations.
553 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
556 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
559 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
560 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
563 Kevin Zachmann helped ported GCC to the Tahoe.
568 We'd also like to thank the folks who have contributed time and energy in
678 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug
679 reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.