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2 @c 2001,2002,2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 @c This is part of the GCC manual.
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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 Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end.
42 Godmar Back for his Java improvements and encouragement.
45 Scott Bambrough for help porting the Java compiler.
48 Wolfgang Bangerth for processing tons of bug reports.
51 Jon Beniston for his Win32 port of Java.
54 Daniel Berlin for better DWARF2 support, faster/better optimizations,
55 improved alias analysis, plus migrating us to Bugzilla.
58 Geoff Berry for his Java object serialization work and various patches.
61 Eric Blake for helping to make GCJ and libgcj conform to the
65 Segher Boessenkool for various fixes.
68 Hans-J. Boehm for his @uref{http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/,,
69 garbage collector}, IA-64 libffi port, and other Java work.
72 Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other
73 miscellaneous clean-ups.
76 Eric Botcazou for fixing middle- and backend bugs left and right.
79 Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
80 improvements to our infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
81 front end implementation. Initial implementations of
82 cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++)
83 maintainer. Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of GCJ.
86 Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
89 Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
92 Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
95 Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
98 Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
101 Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
104 Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ.
107 Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
110 Craig Burley for leadership of the Fortran effort.
113 Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++.
116 Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to
117 the string class, hard detective work on the frustrating localization
118 issues, and keeping up with the problem reports.
121 John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
122 previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
125 Stephane Carrez for 68HC11 and 68HC12 ports.
128 Steve Chamberlain for support for the Hitachi SH and H8 processors
129 and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.
132 Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ.
135 John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches.
138 Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
141 Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.
144 Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
147 The @uref{http://www.classpath.org,,GNU Classpath project}
148 for all of their merged runtime code.
151 Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and
152 other random hacking.
155 Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings.
158 Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing.
161 Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
165 Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
168 Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
171 Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
172 that print a copy of their source.
175 Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.
178 Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes.
181 DJ Delorie for the DJGPP port, build and libiberty maintenance, and
185 Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to g++, contributions and
186 maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3,
187 including valarray<>, complex<>, maintaining the numerics library
188 (including that pesky <limits> :-) and keeping up-to-date anything
192 Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99
193 support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime
194 libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and
195 maintaining complex<>, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration
196 architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.
199 Zdenek Dvorak for a new loop unroller and various fixes.
202 Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
205 David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work
206 with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes, and
207 for doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands.
210 Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in
214 Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery,
215 documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional
216 iostream bug fix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
219 Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
222 Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++
223 configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.
226 Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.
229 Christian Ehrhardt for dealing with bug reports.
232 Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
233 own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
236 Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
239 Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
243 Christopher Faylor for his work on the Cygwin port and for caring and
244 feeding the gcc.gnu.org box and saving its users tons of spam.
247 Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
250 Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portugese translation of the GCJ FAQ.
253 Peter Gerwinski for various bug fixes and the Pascal front end.
256 Kaveh Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee and
257 amazing work to make @samp{-W -Wall} useful.
260 John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.
263 Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
266 Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
267 multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
268 support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
269 via the steering committee.
272 Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work.
275 Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug our code.
278 Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
281 Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
282 tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
283 the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
284 Intel 386 and 860 support.
287 Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
288 warnings and assorted bug fixes.
291 Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
294 Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
297 Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
298 the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
302 Kate Hedstrom for staking the g77 folks with an initial testsuite.
305 Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, ia32, and ia64 work, loop
306 opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
307 years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
311 Aldy Hernandez for working on the PowerPC port, SIMD support, and
315 Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
316 the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
319 Kazu Hirata for caring and feeding the Hitachi H8/300 port and various fixes.
322 Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
323 of testing and bug fixing, particularly of our configury code.
326 Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
329 Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
332 Christian Iseli for various bug fixes.
335 Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
338 Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
341 Andreas Jaeger for various fixes to the MIPS port
344 Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
345 as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
349 Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes, her quality improvement
350 sidetracks, and web page maintenance.
353 J. Kean Johnston for OpenServer support.
356 Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
357 Kenner's "``toy'' language".
360 Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation.
363 Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
366 David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
369 Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bug fixes and optimizations of
370 strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.
373 Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
374 and his automatic regression tester.
377 Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with g++ and for a lot of early work
378 in just about every part of libstdc++.
381 Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
385 Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
386 Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
387 Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
388 instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
389 processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
390 strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
391 code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
392 elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
393 head maintainer of GCC for several years.
396 Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and
397 maintaining binary releases for Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++
398 porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32.
401 Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
404 Mark Klein for PA improvements.
407 Thomas Koenig for various bug fixes.
410 Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
413 Benjamin Kosnik for his g++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
416 Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
420 Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
421 entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
422 handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
423 fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
426 Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
427 with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
430 Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
433 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for C++ improvements including template as template
434 parameter support, and many C++ fixes.
437 Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
438 random work on the Java front end.
441 Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU.
444 Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and
448 Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
451 Weiwen Liu for testing and various bug fixes.
454 Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
458 Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
459 various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of
460 assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges.
463 H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
464 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
467 Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
470 Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
471 various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
474 Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking
475 improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and
476 direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and
477 implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler.
480 Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
483 Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and
484 improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.
487 All of the Mauve project
488 @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/mauve/THANKS?rev=1.2&cvsroot=mauve&only_with_tag=HEAD,,contributors},
492 Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.
495 Adam Megacz for his work on the Win32 port of GCJ.
498 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
499 powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
502 Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
506 David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
507 SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
511 Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
514 Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bug fixes, and turning the
515 entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.
518 Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
519 C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
520 ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.x.
523 Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
526 Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
527 maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
530 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
531 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
532 services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and
533 the backs of envelopes would have been... difficult.
536 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
537 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
541 Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.
544 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements.
547 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
548 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
549 than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
552 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
555 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
558 Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
559 C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
562 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship
563 through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale
564 infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project
565 documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on
566 MT-safe string and shadow headers.
569 Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.
572 Nathanael Nerode for cleaning up the configuration/build process.
575 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
579 Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
580 engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
583 Geoff Noer for this work on getting cygwin native builds working.
586 Diego Novillo for his SPEC performance tracking web pages and assorted
587 fixes in the middle end and various back ends.
590 David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
591 FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
595 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
596 amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy.
599 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
602 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to our o32
603 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
604 clean-ups and porting work, etc.
607 Hartmut Penner for work on the s390 port.
610 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
613 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and
614 continued Java maintainership.
617 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
620 Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
621 out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
622 taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
625 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
629 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
630 cleanups in the compiler.
633 Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT.
636 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
640 Volker Reichelt for keeping up with the problem reports.
643 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
647 Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD
648 port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical
649 threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems.
652 Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
655 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
658 Ken Rose for fixes to our delay slot filling code.
661 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
664 Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits,
665 Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support.
668 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
671 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
674 Roger Sayle for improvements to constant folding and GCC's RTL optimizers
675 as well as for fixing numerous bugs.
678 Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ.
681 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
684 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
687 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
688 work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
692 Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++ -- especially application
693 testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release
694 criteria -- and libstdc++ header file tweaks.
697 Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.
700 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
703 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
704 contributions and RTEMS testing.
707 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
710 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
711 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
712 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
715 Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from
716 the LWG (thereby keeping us in line with updates from the ISO).
719 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
723 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
726 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
729 Danny Smith for his major efforts on the Mingw (and Cygwin) ports.
732 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
735 Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++
739 Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique.
742 Richard Stallman, for writing the original gcc and launching the GNU project.
745 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
746 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
749 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
752 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
755 Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
758 John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.
761 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, g++ contributions over the years and more
762 recently his vxworks contributions
765 Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.
768 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
771 Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking,
775 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU.
778 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
781 Philipp Thomas for random bug fixes throughout the compiler
784 Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD.
787 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
788 language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
791 Michael Tiemann for random bug fixes, the first instruction scheduler,
792 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
793 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
796 Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.
799 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
802 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
803 definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
806 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java
807 contributions and libgcj maintainership.
810 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
814 Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes.
817 Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their
818 associated configure steps.
821 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
824 Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML
828 Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
832 Krister Walfridsson for random bug fixes.
835 Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files
836 work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time
840 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
841 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
842 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
845 Ulrich Weigand for work on the s390 port.
848 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bug fixes.
851 Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ.
854 Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.
857 Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with
861 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
864 Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
867 Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
868 problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
869 reduction and other loop optimizations.
872 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
875 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
878 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
879 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
882 Kevin Zachmann helped ported GCC to the Tahoe.
885 Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.
890 We'd also like to thank the folks who have contributed time and energy in
967 Charles-Antoine Gauthier
1153 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug
1154 reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.