1 @c Copyright (C) 1988,1989,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,
2 @c 2001,2002,2003,2004,2005 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 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 Eric Blake for helping to make GCJ and libgcj conform to the
72 Janne Blomqvist for contributions to gfortran.
75 Segher Boessenkool for various fixes.
78 Hans-J. Boehm for his @uref{http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/,,
79 garbage collector}, IA-64 libffi port, and other Java work.
82 Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other
83 miscellaneous clean-ups.
86 Steven Bosscher for integrating the gfortran front end into GCC and for
87 contributing to the tree-ssa branch.
90 Eric Botcazou for fixing middle- and backend bugs left and right.
93 Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
94 improvements to the infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
95 front end implementation. Initial implementations of
96 cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++)
97 maintainer. Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of GCJ@.
100 Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
103 Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
106 Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
109 Paul Brook for work on the ARM architecture and maintaining gfortran.
112 Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
115 Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
118 Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
121 Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ@.
124 Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
127 Craig Burley for leadership of the G77 Fortran effort.
130 Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++.
133 Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to
134 the C++ strings, streambufs and formatted I/O, hard detective work on
135 the frustrating localization issues, and keeping up with the problem reports.
138 John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
139 previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
142 Stephane Carrez for 68HC11 and 68HC12 ports.
145 Steve Chamberlain for support for the Renesas SH and H8 processors
146 and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.
149 Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ@.
152 John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches.
155 Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
158 Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.
161 Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
164 The @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/,,GNU Classpath project}
165 for all of their merged runtime code.
168 Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and
169 other random hacking.
172 Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings.
175 R. Kelley Cook for making GCC buildable from a read-only directory as
176 well as other miscellaneous build process and documentation clean-ups.
179 Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing.
182 Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
186 Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
189 Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
192 Paul Dale for his work to add uClinux platform support to the
196 Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
197 that print a copy of their source.
200 Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.
203 Bud Davis for work on the G77 and gfortran compilers.
206 Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes.
209 DJ Delorie for the DJGPP port, build and libiberty maintenance,
210 various bug fixes, and the M32C port.
213 Arnaud Desitter for helping to debug gfortran.
216 Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to G++, contributions and
217 maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3,
218 including @code{valarray<>}, @code{complex<>}, maintaining the numerics library
219 (including that pesky @code{<limits>} :-) and keeping up-to-date anything
223 Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99
224 support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime
225 libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and
226 maintaining @code{complex<>}, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration
227 architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.
230 Zdenek Dvorak for a new loop unroller and various fixes.
233 Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
236 David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work
237 with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes,
238 doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands, and for
239 ensuring GCC properly keeps working on AIX@.
242 Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in
246 Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery,
247 documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional
248 iostream bug fix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
251 Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
254 Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++
255 configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.
258 Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.
261 Christian Ehrhardt for dealing with bug reports.
264 Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
265 own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
268 Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
271 Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
275 Christopher Faylor for his work on the Cygwin port and for caring and
276 feeding the gcc.gnu.org box and saving its users tons of spam.
279 Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
282 Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portuguese translation of the GCJ FAQ@.
285 Peter Gerwinski for various bug fixes and the Pascal front end.
288 Kaveh Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee,
289 amazing work to make @samp{-W -Wall} useful, and continuously testing
290 GCC on a plethora of platforms.
293 John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.
296 Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
299 Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
300 multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
301 support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
302 via the steering committee.
305 Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work.
308 Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug Java code.
311 Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
314 Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
315 tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
316 the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
317 Intel 386 and 860 support.
320 Mostafa Hagog for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS) and post reload GCSE@.
323 Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
324 warnings and assorted bug fixes.
327 Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
330 Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
333 Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
334 the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
338 Dara Hazeghi for wading through myriads of target-specific bug reports.
341 Kate Hedstrom for staking the G77 folks with an initial testsuite.
344 Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, ia32, and ia64 work, loop
345 opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
346 years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
350 Aldy Hernandez for working on the PowerPC port, SIMD support, and
354 Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
355 the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
358 Kazu Hirata for caring and feeding the Renesas H8/300 port and various fixes.
361 Katherine Holcomb for work on gfortran.
364 Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
365 of testing and bug fixing, particularly of GCC configury code.
368 Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
371 Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
374 Falk Hueffner for working on C and optimization bug reports.
377 Bernardo Innocenti for his m68k work, including merging of
378 ColdFire improvements and uClinux support.
381 Christian Iseli for various bug fixes.
384 Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
387 Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
390 Andreas Jaeger for testing and benchmarking of GCC and various bug fixes.
393 Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
394 as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
398 Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes, her quality improvement
399 sidetracks, and web page maintenance.
402 Kean Johnston for SCO OpenServer support and various fixes.
405 Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
406 Kenner's ``toy'' language.
409 Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation.
412 Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
415 Steven G. Kargl for work on gfortran.
418 David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
421 Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bug fixes and optimizations of
422 strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.
425 Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
426 and his automatic regression tester.
429 Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with G++ and for a lot of early work
430 in just about every part of libstdc++.
433 Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
437 Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
438 Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
439 Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
440 instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
441 processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
442 strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
443 code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
444 elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
445 head maintainer of GCC for several years.
448 Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and
449 maintaining binary releases for Microsoft Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++
450 porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32.
453 Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
456 Mark Klein for PA improvements.
459 Thomas Koenig for various bug fixes.
462 Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
465 Benjamin Kosnik for his G++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
468 Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
472 Asher Langton and Mike Kumbera for contributing Cray pointer support
473 to gfortran, and for other gfortran improvements.
476 Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
477 entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
478 handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
479 fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
482 Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
483 with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
486 Victor Leikehman for work on gfortran.
489 Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
492 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for C++ improvements including template as template
493 parameter support, and many C++ fixes.
496 Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
497 random work on the Java front end.
500 Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU@.
503 Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and
507 Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
510 Weiwen Liu for testing and various bug fixes.
513 Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
517 Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
518 various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of
519 assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges.
522 H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
523 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
526 Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
529 Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
530 various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
533 Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking
534 improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and
535 direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and
536 implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler.
539 Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
542 Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and
543 improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.
546 All of the Mauve project
547 @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/mauve/THANKS?rev=1.2&cvsroot=mauve&only_with_tag=HEAD,,contributors},
551 Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.
554 Adam Megacz for his work on the Microsoft Windows port of GCJ@.
557 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
558 powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
561 Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
565 David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
566 SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
570 Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
573 Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bug fixes, and turning the
574 entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.
577 Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
578 C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
579 ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.x.
582 Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
585 Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
586 maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
589 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
590 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
591 services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and
592 the backs of envelopes would have been@dots{} difficult.
595 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
596 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
600 Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.
603 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements, and for the initial
607 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
608 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
609 than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
612 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
615 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
618 Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
619 C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
622 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship
623 through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale
624 infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project
625 documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on
626 MT-safe string and shadow headers.
629 Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.
632 Nathanael Nerode for cleaning up the configuration/build process.
635 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
639 Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
640 engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
643 Geoff Noer for his work on getting cygwin native builds working.
646 Diego Novillo for his SPEC performance tracking web pages and assorted
647 fixes in the middle end and various back ends.
650 David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
651 FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
655 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
656 amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy.
659 Stefan Olsson for work on mt_alloc.
662 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
665 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to GCC's o32
666 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
667 clean-ups and porting work, etc.
670 Hartmut Penner for work on the s390 port.
673 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
676 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and
677 continued Java maintainership.
680 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
683 Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
684 out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
685 taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
688 Andrew Pinski for processing bug reports by the dozen.
691 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
695 Jerry Quinn for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O@.
698 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
699 cleanups in the compiler.
702 Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT@.
705 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
709 Volker Reichelt for keeping up with the problem reports.
712 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
716 Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD
717 port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical
718 threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems,
719 as well as keeping GCC properly working on FreeBSD and continuous testing.
722 Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
725 Ola R@"onnerup for work on mt_alloc.
728 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
731 David Ronis inspired and encouraged Craig to rewrite the G77
732 documentation in texinfo format by contributing a first pass at a
733 translation of the old @file{g77-0.5.16/f/DOC} file.
736 Ken Rose for fixes to GCC's delay slot filling code.
739 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
742 P@'etur Run@'olfsson for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O and
743 large file support in C++ filebuf.
746 Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits,
747 Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support.
750 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
753 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
756 Roger Sayle for improvements to constant folding and GCC's RTL optimizers
757 as well as for fixing numerous bugs.
760 Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ@.
763 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
766 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
769 Tobias Schl@"uter for work on gfortran.
772 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
773 work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
777 Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++---especially application
778 testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release
779 criteria---and libstdc++ header file tweaks.
782 Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.
785 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
788 Lars Segerlund for work on gfortran.
791 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
792 contributions and RTEMS testing.
795 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
798 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
799 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
800 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
803 Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from
804 the LWG (thereby keeping GCC in line with updates from the ISO)@.
807 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
811 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
814 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
817 Danny Smith for his major efforts on the Mingw (and Cygwin) ports.
820 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
823 Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++
824 testsuite entries. Also for providing the patch to G77 to add
825 rudimentary support for @code{INTEGER*1}, @code{INTEGER*2}, and
829 Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique.
832 Richard Stallman, for writing the original GCC and launching the GNU project.
835 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
836 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
839 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
842 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
845 Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
848 John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.
851 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, G++ contributions over the years and more
852 recently his vxworks contributions
855 Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.
858 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
861 Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking,
865 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU@.
868 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
871 Philipp Thomas for random bug fixes throughout the compiler
874 Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD@.
877 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
878 language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
881 Michael Tiemann for random bug fixes, the first instruction scheduler,
882 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
883 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
886 Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.
889 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
892 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
893 definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
896 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java
897 contributions and libgcj maintainership.
900 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
904 Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes.
907 Andy Vaught for the design and initial implementation of the gfortran
911 Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their
912 associated configure steps.
915 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
918 Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML
922 Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
926 Krister Walfridsson for random bug fixes.
929 Feng Wang for contributions to gfortran.
932 Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files
933 work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time
937 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
938 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
939 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
942 Ulrich Weigand for work on the s390 port.
945 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bug fixes.
948 Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ@.
951 Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.
954 Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with
958 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
961 Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
964 Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
965 problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
966 reduction and other loop optimizations.
969 Paul Woegerer and Tal Agmon for the CRX port.
972 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
975 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
978 Canqun Yang for work on gfortran.
981 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
982 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
985 Kevin Zachmann helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
988 Ayal Zaks for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS).
991 Xiaoqiang Zhang for work on gfortran.
994 Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.
998 The following people are recognized for their contributions to GNAT,
999 the Ada front end of GCC:
1145 In addition to the above, all of which also contributed time and energy in
1146 testing GCC, we would like to thank the following for their contributions
1151 Michael Abd-El-Malek
1217 Charles-Antoine Gauthier
1382 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug
1383 reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.