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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{jlaw@@ventanamicro.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{https://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 Jose E. Marchesi for contributing the eBPF backend and his ongoing
642 John Marino for contributing the DragonFly BSD port.
645 Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and
646 improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.
649 Michael Matz for his work on dominance tree discovery, the x86-64 port,
650 link-time optimization framework and general optimization improvements.
653 All of the Mauve project contributors for Java test code.
656 Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.
659 Adam Megacz for his work on the Microsoft Windows port of GCJ@.
662 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
663 powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
666 Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
670 Martin Michlmayr for testing GCC on several architectures using the
671 entire Debian archive.
674 David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
675 SPARC work, improvements in jump.cc and interfacing with the Linux kernel
679 Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
682 Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bug fixes, and turning the
683 entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.
686 Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
687 C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
688 ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager from 2000
692 Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
695 Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
696 maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
699 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
700 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
701 services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and
702 the backs of envelopes would have been@dots{} difficult.
705 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
706 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
710 Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.
713 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements, and for the initial
717 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
718 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
719 than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
722 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
725 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
728 Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
729 C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
732 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship
733 through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale
734 infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project
735 documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on
736 MT-safe string and shadow headers.
739 Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.
742 Nathanael Nerode for cleaning up the configuration/build process.
745 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
749 Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
750 engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
753 Geoff Noer for his work on getting cygwin native builds working.
756 Vegard Nossum for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting
760 Diego Novillo for his work on Tree SSA, OpenMP, SPEC performance
761 tracking web pages, GIMPLE tuples, and assorted fixes.
764 David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
765 FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
769 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
770 amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy.
773 Stefan Olsson for work on mt_alloc.
776 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
779 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to GCC's o32
780 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
781 clean-ups and porting work, and maintaining the IRIX, Solaris 2, and
785 Steven Pemberton for his contribution of @file{enquire} which allowed GCC to
786 determine various properties of the floating point unit and generate
787 @file{float.h} in older versions of GCC.
790 Hartmut Penner for work on the s390 port.
793 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
796 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and
797 continued Java maintainership.
800 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
803 Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
804 out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
805 taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
808 Marek Polacek for his work on the C front end, the sanitizers and general
812 Andrew Pinski for processing bug reports by the dozen, maintenance of the
813 Objective-C runtime libraries, and many scalar optimizations.
816 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
820 Jerry Quinn for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O@.
823 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
824 cleanups in the compiler.
827 Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT@.
830 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
834 John Regehr for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting
838 Volker Reichelt for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting
839 numerous bugs and for keeping up with the problem reports.
842 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
843 hacking and developing and maintaining the Epiphany port.
846 Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD
847 port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical
848 threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems,
849 as well as keeping GCC properly working on FreeBSD and continuous testing.
852 Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
855 Ola R@"onnerup for work on mt_alloc.
858 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
861 David Ronis inspired and encouraged Craig to rewrite the G77
862 documentation in texinfo format by contributing a first pass at a
863 translation of the old @file{g77-0.5.16/f/DOC} file.
866 Ken Rose for fixes to GCC's delay slot filling code.
869 Ira Rosen for her contributions to the auto-vectorizer.
872 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
875 P@'etur Run@'olfsson for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O and
876 large file support in C++ filebuf.
879 Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits,
880 Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support.
883 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
886 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
889 Roger Sayle for improvements to constant folding and GCC's RTL optimizers
890 as well as for fixing numerous bugs.
893 Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ@.
896 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
899 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
902 Tobias Schl@"uter for work on GNU Fortran.
905 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
906 work in the reload pass, serving as release manager for
907 GCC 2.95.3, and work on the Blackfin and C6X ports.
910 Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++---especially application
911 testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release
912 criteria---and libstdc++ header file tweaks.
915 Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.
918 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
921 Lars Segerlund for work on GNU Fortran.
924 Dodji Seketeli for numerous C++ bug fixes and debug info improvements.
927 Tim Shen for major work on @code{<regex>}.
930 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
931 contributions and RTEMS testing.
934 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
937 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
938 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
939 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
942 Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from
943 the LWG (thereby keeping GCC in line with updates from the ISO)@.
946 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
950 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
953 Trevor Smigiel for contributing the SPU port.
956 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
959 Danny Smith for his major efforts on the Mingw (and Cygwin) ports.
960 Retired from GCC maintainership August 2010, having mentored two
961 new maintainers into the role.
964 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
967 Ed Smith-Rowland for his continuous work on libstdc++-v3, special functions,
968 @code{<random>}, and various improvements to C++11 features.
971 Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++
972 testsuite entries. Also for providing the patch to G77 to add
973 rudimentary support for @code{INTEGER*1}, @code{INTEGER*2}, and
977 Zdenek Sojka for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting
981 Arseny Solokha for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting
985 Jayant Sonar for contributing the CR16 port.
988 Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique.
991 Richard Stallman, for writing the original GCC and launching the GNU project.
994 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
995 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
998 Gerhard Steinmetz for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting
1002 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
1005 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
1008 Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
1011 John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.
1014 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, G++ contributions over the years and more
1015 recently his vxworks contributions
1018 Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.
1021 Zhendong Su for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting
1025 Chengnian Sun for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting
1029 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
1032 Ian Lance Taylor for the Go frontend, the initial mips16 and mips64
1033 support, general configury hacking, fixincludes, etc.
1036 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU@.
1039 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
1042 Paul Thomas for contributions to GNU Fortran.
1045 Philipp Thomas for random bug fixes throughout the compiler
1048 Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD@.
1051 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
1052 language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
1055 Michael Tiemann for random bug fixes, the first instruction scheduler,
1056 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
1057 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
1060 Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.
1063 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
1066 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
1067 definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
1070 Daniel Towner and Hariharan Sandanagobalane contributed and
1071 maintain the picoChip port.
1074 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java
1075 contributions and libgcj maintainership.
1078 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
1082 Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes.
1085 Andy Vaught for the design and initial implementation of the GNU Fortran
1089 Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their
1090 associated configure steps.
1093 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
1096 Andrew Waterman for contributing the RISC-V port, as well as maintaining it.
1099 Jonathan Wakely for contributing to and maintaining libstdc++.
1102 Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
1103 in time for GCC 3.0.
1106 Krister Walfridsson for random bug fixes.
1109 Feng Wang for contributions to GNU Fortran.
1112 Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files
1113 work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time
1114 header tree. Also, for starting and driving the @code{<regex>} effort.
1117 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
1118 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
1119 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
1122 Ulrich Weigand for work on the s390 port.
1125 Janus Weil for contributions to GNU Fortran.
1128 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bug fixes.
1131 Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ@.
1134 Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.
1137 Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with
1141 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
1144 Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
1147 Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
1148 problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
1149 reduction and other loop optimizations.
1152 Paul Woegerer and Tal Agmon for the CRX port.
1155 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
1158 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
1161 Chung-Ju Wu for his work on the Andes NDS32 port.
1164 Canqun Yang for work on GNU Fortran.
1167 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
1168 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
1171 Kevin Zachmann helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
1174 Ayal Zaks for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS).
1177 Qirun Zhang for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting
1181 Xiaoqiang Zhang for work on GNU Fortran.
1184 Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.
1188 The following people are recognized for their contributions to GNAT,
1189 the Ada front end of GCC:
1335 The following people are recognized for their contributions of new
1336 features, bug reports, testing and integration of classpath/libgcj for
1340 Lillian Angel for @code{JTree} implementation and lots Free Swing
1341 additions and bug fixes.
1344 Wolfgang Baer for @code{GapContent} bug fixes.
1347 Anthony Balkissoon for @code{JList}, Free Swing 1.5 updates and mouse event
1348 fixes, lots of Free Swing work including @code{JTable} editing.
1351 Stuart Ballard for RMI constant fixes.
1354 Goffredo Baroncelli for @code{HTTPURLConnection} fixes.
1357 Gary Benson for @code{MessageFormat} fixes.
1360 Daniel Bonniot for @code{Serialization} fixes.
1363 Chris Burdess for lots of gnu.xml and http protocol fixes, @code{StAX}
1364 and @code{DOM xml:id} support.
1367 Ka-Hing Cheung for @code{TreePath} and @code{TreeSelection} fixes.
1370 Archie Cobbs for build fixes, VM interface updates,
1371 @code{URLClassLoader} updates.
1374 Kelley Cook for build fixes.
1377 Martin Cordova for Suggestions for better @code{SocketTimeoutException}.
1380 David Daney for @code{BitSet} bug fixes, @code{HttpURLConnection}
1381 rewrite and improvements.
1384 Thomas Fitzsimmons for lots of upgrades to the gtk+ AWT and Cairo 2D
1385 support. Lots of imageio framework additions, lots of AWT and Free
1389 Jeroen Frijters for @code{ClassLoader} and nio cleanups, serialization fixes,
1390 better @code{Proxy} support, bug fixes and IKVM integration.
1393 Santiago Gala for @code{AccessControlContext} fixes.
1396 Nicolas Geoffray for @code{VMClassLoader} and @code{AccessController}
1400 David Gilbert for @code{basic} and @code{metal} icon and plaf support
1401 and lots of documenting, Lots of Free Swing and metal theme
1402 additions. @code{MetalIconFactory} implementation.
1405 Anthony Green for @code{MIDI} framework, @code{ALSA} and @code{DSSI}
1409 Andrew Haley for @code{Serialization} and @code{URLClassLoader} fixes,
1413 Kim Ho for @code{JFileChooser} implementation.
1416 Andrew John Hughes for @code{Locale} and net fixes, URI RFC2986
1417 updates, @code{Serialization} fixes, @code{Properties} XML support and
1418 generic branch work, VMIntegration guide update.
1421 Bastiaan Huisman for @code{TimeZone} bug fixing.
1424 Andreas Jaeger for mprec updates.
1427 Paul Jenner for better @option{-Werror} support.
1430 Ito Kazumitsu for @code{NetworkInterface} implementation and updates.
1433 Roman Kennke for @code{BoxLayout}, @code{GrayFilter} and
1434 @code{SplitPane}, plus bug fixes all over. Lots of Free Swing work
1435 including styled text.
1438 Simon Kitching for @code{String} cleanups and optimization suggestions.
1441 Michael Koch for configuration fixes, @code{Locale} updates, bug and
1445 Guilhem Lavaux for configuration, thread and channel fixes and Kaffe
1446 integration. JCL native @code{Pointer} updates. Logger bug fixes.
1449 David Lichteblau for JCL support library global/local reference
1453 Aaron Luchko for JDWP updates and documentation fixes.
1456 Ziga Mahkovec for @code{Graphics2D} upgraded to Cairo 0.5 and new regex
1460 Sven de Marothy for BMP imageio support, CSS and @code{TextLayout}
1461 fixes. @code{GtkImage} rewrite, 2D, awt, free swing and date/time fixes and
1462 implementing the Qt4 peers.
1465 Casey Marshall for crypto algorithm fixes, @code{FileChannel} lock,
1466 @code{SystemLogger} and @code{FileHandler} rotate implementations, NIO
1467 @code{FileChannel.map} support, security and policy updates.
1470 Bryce McKinlay for RMI work.
1473 Audrius Meskauskas for lots of Free Corba, RMI and HTML work plus
1474 testing and documenting.
1477 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo for build fixes.
1480 Rainer Orth for build fixes.
1483 Andrew Overholt for @code{File} locking fixes.
1486 Ingo Proetel for @code{Image}, @code{Logger} and @code{URLClassLoader}
1490 Olga Rodimina for @code{MenuSelectionManager} implementation.
1493 Jan Roehrich for @code{BasicTreeUI} and @code{JTree} fixes.
1496 Julian Scheid for documentation updates and gjdoc support.
1499 Christian Schlichtherle for zip fixes and cleanups.
1502 Robert Schuster for documentation updates and beans fixes,
1503 @code{TreeNode} enumerations and @code{ActionCommand} and various
1504 fixes, XML and URL, AWT and Free Swing bug fixes.
1507 Keith Seitz for lots of JDWP work.
1510 Christian Thalinger for 64-bit cleanups, Configuration and VM
1511 interface fixes and @code{CACAO} integration, @code{fdlibm} updates.
1514 Gael Thomas for @code{VMClassLoader} boot packages support suggestions.
1517 Andreas Tobler for Darwin and Solaris testing and fixing, @code{Qt4}
1518 support for Darwin / macOS, @code{Graphics2D} support, @code{gtk+}
1522 Dalibor Topic for better @code{DEBUG} support, build cleanups and
1523 Kaffe integration. @code{Qt4} build infrastructure, @code{SHA1PRNG}
1524 and @code{GdkPixbugDecoder} updates.
1527 Tom Tromey for Eclipse integration, generics work, lots of bug fixes
1528 and gcj integration including coordinating The Big Merge.
1531 Mark Wielaard for bug fixes, packaging and release management,
1532 @code{Clipboard} implementation, system call interrupts and network
1533 timeouts and @code{GdkPixpufDecoder} fixes.
1538 In addition to the above, all of which also contributed time and energy in
1539 testing GCC, we would like to thank the following for their contributions
1544 Michael Abd-El-Malek
1613 Charles-Antoine Gauthier
1778 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, provides
1779 feedback and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first