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6
7@node Contributors
8@unnumbered Contributors to GCC
9@cindex contributors
10
11The GCC project would like to thank its many contributors.  Without them the
12project would not have been nearly as successful as it has been.  Any omissions
13in this list are accidental.  Feel free to contact
14@email{law@@redhat.com} or @email{gerald@@pfeifer.com} if you have been left
15out or some of your contributions are not listed.  Please keep this list in
16alphabetical order.
17
18@itemize @bullet
19
20@item
21Analog Devices helped implement the support for complex data types
22and iterators.
23
24@item
25John David Anglin for threading-related fixes and improvements to
26libstdc++-v3, and the HP-UX port.
27
28@item
29James van Artsdalen wrote the code that makes efficient use of
30the Intel 80387 register stack.
31
32@item
33Abramo and Roberto Bagnara for the SysV68 Motorola 3300 Delta Series
34port.
35
36@item
37Alasdair Baird for various bug fixes.
38
39@item
40Giovanni Bajo for analyzing lots of complicated C++ problem reports.
41
42@item
43Peter Barada for his work to improve code generation for new
44ColdFire cores.
45
46@item
47Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end.
48
49@item
50Godmar Back for his Java improvements and encouragement.
51
52@item
53Scott Bambrough for help porting the Java compiler.
54
55@item
56Wolfgang Bangerth for processing tons of bug reports.
57
58@item
59Jon Beniston for his Microsoft Windows port of Java and port to Lattice Mico32.
60
61@item
62Daniel Berlin for better DWARF2 support, faster/better optimizations,
63improved alias analysis, plus migrating GCC to Bugzilla.
64
65@item
66Geoff Berry for his Java object serialization work and various patches.
67
68@item
69Uros Bizjak for the implementation of x87 math built-in functions and
70for various middle end and i386 back end improvements and bug fixes.
71
72@item
73Eric Blake for helping to make GCJ and libgcj conform to the
74specifications.
75
76@item
77Janne Blomqvist for contributions to GNU Fortran.
78
79@item
80Segher Boessenkool for various fixes.
81
82@item
83Hans-J. Boehm for his @uref{http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/,,
84garbage collector}, IA-64 libffi port, and other Java work.
85
86@item
87Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other
88miscellaneous clean-ups.
89
90@item
91Steven Bosscher for integrating the GNU Fortran front end into GCC and for
92contributing to the tree-ssa branch.
93
94@item
95Eric Botcazou for fixing middle- and backend bugs left and right.
96
97@item
98Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
99improvements to the infrastructure for supporting new languages.  Chill
100front end implementation.  Initial implementations of
101cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++)
102maintainer.  Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of GCJ@.
103
104@item
105Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
106
107@item
108Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
109
110@item
111Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
112
113@item
114Paul Brook for work on the ARM architecture and maintaining GNU Fortran.
115
116@item
117Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
118
119@item
120Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
121
122@item
123Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
124
125@item
126Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ@.
127
128@item
129Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
130
131@item
132Craig Burley for leadership of the G77 Fortran effort.
133
134@item
135Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++.
136
137@item
138Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to
139the C++ strings, streambufs and formatted I/O, hard detective work on
140the frustrating localization issues, and keeping up with the problem reports.
141
142@item
143John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
144previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
145
146@item
147Stephane Carrez for 68HC11 and 68HC12 ports.
148
149@item
150Steve Chamberlain for support for the Renesas SH and H8 processors
151and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.
152
153@item
154Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ@.
155
156@item
157John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches.
158
159@item
160Denis Chertykov for contributing and maintaining the AVR port, the first GCC port
161for an 8-bit architecture.
162
163@item
164Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
165
166@item
167Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.
168
169@item
170Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
171
172@item
173The @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/,,GNU Classpath project}
174for all of their merged runtime code.
175
176@item
177Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r, rx work,
178@option{--help}, and other random hacking.
179
180@item
181Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings.
182
183@item
184R. Kelley Cook for making GCC buildable from a read-only directory as
185well as other miscellaneous build process and documentation clean-ups.
186
187@item
188Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bug fixing.
189
190@item
191Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
192the scenes hacking.
193
194@item
195Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
196
197@item
198Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
199
200@item
201Paul Dale for his work to add uClinux platform support to the
202m68k backend.
203
204@item
205Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
206that print a copy of their source.
207
208@item
209Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.
210
211@item
212Bud Davis for work on the G77 and GNU Fortran compilers.
213
214@item
215Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes.
216
217@item
218DJ Delorie for the DJGPP port, build and libiberty maintenance,
219various bug fixes, and the M32C and MeP ports.
220
221@item
222Arnaud Desitter for helping to debug GNU Fortran.
223
224@item
225Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to G++, contributions and
226maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3,
227including @code{valarray<>}, @code{complex<>}, maintaining the numerics library
228(including that pesky @code{<limits>} :-) and keeping up-to-date anything
229to do with numbers.
230
231@item
232Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99
233support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime
234libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and
235maintaining @code{complex<>}, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration
236architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.
237
238@item
239Zdenek Dvorak for a new loop unroller and various fixes.
240
241@item
242Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
243
244@item
245David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work
246with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes,
247doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands, and for
248ensuring GCC properly keeps working on AIX@.
249
250@item
251Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in
252libstdc++.
253
254@item
255Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery,
256documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional
257iostream bug fix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
258
259@item
260Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
261
262@item
263Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++
264configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.
265
266@item
267Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.
268
269@item
270Christian Ehrhardt for dealing with bug reports.
271
272@item
273Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
274own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
275
276@item
277Revital Eres for work on the PowerPC 750CL port.
278
279@item
280Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
281
282@item
283Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
284and SPARC work.
285
286@item
287Christopher Faylor for his work on the Cygwin port and for caring and
288feeding the gcc.gnu.org box and saving its users tons of spam.
289
290@item
291Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
292
293@item
294Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portuguese translation of the GCJ FAQ@.
295
296@item
297Peter Gerwinski for various bug fixes and the Pascal front end.
298
299@item
300Kaveh R.@: Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee, amazing
301work to make @samp{-W -Wall -W* -Werror} useful, and continuously
302testing GCC on a plethora of platforms.  Kaveh extends his gratitude to
303the @uref{http://www.caip.rutgers.edu,,CAIP Center} at Rutgers
304University for providing him with computing resources to work on Free
305Software since the late 1980s.
306
307@item
308John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.
309
310@item
311Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
312
313@item
314Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
315multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
316support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
317via the steering committee.
318
319@item
320Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions, the moxie port, and
321Java front end work.
322
323@item
324Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug Java code.
325
326@item
327Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
328
329@item
330Richard Guenther for his ongoing middle-end contributions and bug fixes
331and for release management.
332
333@item
334Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
335tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
336the support for System V Release 4.  He has also worked heavily on the
337Intel 386 and 860 support.
338
339@item
340Mostafa Hagog for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS) and post reload GCSE@.
341
342@item
343Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
344warnings and assorted bug fixes.
345
346@item
347Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
348
349@item
350Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
351
352@item
353Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
354the c30/c40 ports functional.  Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
355fixes.
356
357@item
358Dara Hazeghi for wading through myriads of target-specific bug reports.
359
360@item
361Kate Hedstrom for staking the G77 folks with an initial testsuite.
362
363@item
364Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, ia32, and ia64 work, loop
365opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
366years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
367tons of patches.
368
369@item
370Aldy Hernandez for working on the PowerPC port, SIMD support, and
371various fixes.
372
373@item
374Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
375the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
376
377@item
378Kazu Hirata for caring and feeding the Renesas H8/300 port and various fixes.
379
380@item
381Katherine Holcomb for work on GNU Fortran.
382
383@item
384Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
385of testing and bug fixing, particularly of GCC configury code.
386
387@item
388Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
389
390@item
391Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
392
393@item
394Falk Hueffner for working on C and optimization bug reports.
395
396@item
397Bernardo Innocenti for his m68k work, including merging of
398ColdFire improvements and uClinux support.
399
400@item
401Christian Iseli for various bug fixes.
402
403@item
404Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
405
406@item
407Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
408
409@item
410Andreas Jaeger for testing and benchmarking of GCC and various bug fixes.
411
412@item
413Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
414as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
415system.
416
417@item
418Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes, her quality improvement
419sidetracks, and web page maintenance.
420
421@item
422Kean Johnston for SCO OpenServer support and various fixes.
423
424@item
425Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
426Kenner's ``toy'' language.
427
428@item
429Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation.
430
431@item
432Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
433
434@item
435Steven G. Kargl for work on GNU Fortran.
436
437@item
438David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
439
440@item
441Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bug fixes and optimizations of
442strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.
443
444@item
445Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
446and his automatic regression tester.
447
448@item
449Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with G++ and for a lot of early work
450in just about every part of libstdc++.
451
452@item
453Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
454MIL-STD-1750A@.
455
456@item
457Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
458Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
459Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
460instruction attributes.  He also made changes to better support RISC
461processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
462strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
463code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
464elimination and delay slot scheduling.  Richard Kenner was also the
465head maintainer of GCC for several years.
466
467@item
468Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and
469maintaining binary releases for Microsoft Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++
470porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32.
471
472@item
473Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
474
475@item
476Mark Klein for PA improvements.
477
478@item
479Thomas Koenig for various bug fixes.
480
481@item
482Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
483
484@item
485Benjamin Kosnik for his G++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
486
487@item
488Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
48968020 system.
490
491@item
492Asher Langton and Mike Kumbera for contributing Cray pointer support
493to GNU Fortran, and for other GNU Fortran improvements.
494
495@item
496Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
497entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
498handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
499fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
500
501@item
502Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
503with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
504
505@item
506Victor Leikehman for work on GNU Fortran.
507
508@item
509Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
510
511@item
512Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for C++ improvements including template as template
513parameter support, and many C++ fixes.
514
515@item
516Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
517random work on the Java front end.
518
519@item
520Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU@.
521
522@item
523Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and
524patches.
525
526@item
527Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
528
529@item
530Chen Liqin for various S+core related fixes/improvement, and for
531maintaining the S+core port.
532
533@item
534Weiwen Liu for testing and various bug fixes.
535
536@item
537Manuel L@'opez-Ib@'a@~nez for improving @option{-Wconversion} and
538many other diagnostics fixes and improvements.
539
540@item
541Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
542runtime libraries.
543
544@item
545Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
546various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of
547assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges.
548
549@item
550H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
551bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
552
553@item
554Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
555
556@item
557Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
558various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
559
560@item
561Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking
562improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and
563direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and
564implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler.
565
566@item
567Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
568
569@item
570Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and
571improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.
572
573@item
574All of the Mauve project
575@uref{http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/mauve/THANKS?rev=1.2&cvsroot=mauve&only_with_tag=HEAD,,contributors},
576for Java test code.
577
578@item
579Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.
580
581@item
582Adam Megacz for his work on the Microsoft Windows port of GCJ@.
583
584@item
585Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
586powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
587
588@item
589Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
590the G++ effort.
591
592@item
593Martin Michlmayr for testing GCC on several architectures using the
594entire Debian archive.
595
596@item
597David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
598SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
599developers.
600
601@item
602Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
603
604@item
605Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bug fixes, and turning the
606entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.
607
608@item
609Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
610C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
611ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.x.
612
613@item
614Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
615
616@item
617Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
618maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
619
620@item
621Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
622on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
623services, ftp services, etc etc.  Doing all this work on scrap paper and
624the backs of envelopes would have been@dots{} difficult.
625
626@item
627Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
628way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
629Linux kernels.
630
631@item
632Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.
633
634@item
635David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements, and for the initial
636IA-64 port.
637
638@item
639Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
640cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
641than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
642
643@item
644Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
645
646@item
647Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
648
649@item
650Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
651C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
652
653@item
654Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship
655through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale
656infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project
657documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth).  Later, more work on
658MT-safe string and shadow headers.
659
660@item
661Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.
662
663@item
664Nathanael Nerode for cleaning up the configuration/build process.
665
666@item
667NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
668language.
669
670@item
671Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
672engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
673
674@item
675Geoff Noer for his work on getting cygwin native builds working.
676
677@item
678Diego Novillo for his work on Tree SSA, OpenMP, SPEC performance
679tracking web pages, GIMPLE tuples, and assorted fixes.
680
681@item
682David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
683FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
684improvements.
685
686@item
687Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
688amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy.
689
690@item
691Stefan Olsson for work on mt_alloc.
692
693@item
694Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
695
696@item
697Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to GCC's o32
698ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
699clean-ups and porting work, and maintaining the IRIX, Solaris 2, and
700Tru64 UNIX ports.
701
702@item
703Hartmut Penner for work on the s390 port.
704
705@item
706Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
707
708@item
709Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and
710continued Java maintainership.
711
712@item
713Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
714
715@item
716Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
717out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
718taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
719
720@item
721Andrew Pinski for processing bug reports by the dozen.
722
723@item
724Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
725libraries.
726
727@item
728Jerry Quinn for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O@.
729
730@item
731Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
732cleanups in the compiler.
733
734@item
735Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT@.
736
737@item
738David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
739port.
740
741@item
742Volker Reichelt for keeping up with the problem reports.
743
744@item
745Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
746hacking.
747
748@item
749Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD
750port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical
751threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems,
752as well as keeping GCC properly working on FreeBSD and continuous testing.
753
754@item
755Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
756
757@item
758Ola R@"onnerup for work on mt_alloc.
759
760@item
761Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
762
763@item
764David Ronis inspired and encouraged Craig to rewrite the G77
765documentation in texinfo format by contributing a first pass at a
766translation of the old @file{g77-0.5.16/f/DOC} file.
767
768@item
769Ken Rose for fixes to GCC's delay slot filling code.
770
771@item
772Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
773
774@item
775P@'etur Run@'olfsson for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O and
776large file support in C++ filebuf.
777
778@item
779Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits,
780Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support.
781
782@item
783Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
784
785@item
786Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
787
788@item
789Roger Sayle for improvements to constant folding and GCC's RTL optimizers
790as well as for fixing numerous bugs.
791
792@item
793Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ@.
794
795@item
796Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
797
798@item
799William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
800
801@item
802Tobias Schl@"uter for work on GNU Fortran.
803
804@item
805Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
806work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
807GCC 2.95.3.
808
809@item
810Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++---especially application
811testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release
812criteria---and libstdc++ header file tweaks.
813
814@item
815Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.
816
817@item
818Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
819
820@item
821Lars Segerlund for work on GNU Fortran.
822
823@item
824Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
825contributions and RTEMS testing.
826
827@item
828Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
829
830@item
831Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
832code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
833folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
834
835@item
836Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from
837the LWG (thereby keeping GCC in line with updates from the ISO)@.
838
839@item
840Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
841for GNU/Linux.
842
843@item
844Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
845
846@item
847Trevor Smigiel for contributing the SPU port.
848
849@item
850Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
851
852@item
853Danny Smith for his major efforts on the Mingw (and Cygwin) ports.
854
855@item
856Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
857
858@item
859Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++
860testsuite entries.  Also for providing the patch to G77 to add
861rudimentary support for @code{INTEGER*1}, @code{INTEGER*2}, and
862@code{LOGICAL*1}.
863
864@item
865Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique.
866
867@item
868Richard Stallman, for writing the original GCC and launching the GNU project.
869
870@item
871Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
872Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
873
874@item
875Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
876
877@item
878Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
879
880@item
881Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
882
883@item
884John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.
885
886@item
887Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, G++ contributions over the years and more
888recently his vxworks contributions
889
890@item
891Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.
892
893@item
894Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
895
896@item
897Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking,
898fixincludes, etc.
899
900@item
901Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU@.
902
903@item
904Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
905
906@item
907Philipp Thomas for random bug fixes throughout the compiler
908
909@item
910Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD@.
911
912@item
913Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
914language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
915
916@item
917Michael Tiemann for random bug fixes, the first instruction scheduler,
918initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
919machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
920
921@item
922Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.
923
924@item
925Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
926
927@item
928Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
929definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
930
931@item
932Daniel Towner and Hariharan Sandanagobalane contributed and
933maintain the picoChip port.
934
935@item
936Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java
937contributions and libgcj maintainership.
938
939@item
940Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
941types.
942
943@item
944Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes.
945
946@item
947Andy Vaught for the design and initial implementation of the GNU Fortran
948front end.
949
950@item
951Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their
952associated configure steps.
953
954@item
955Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
956
957@item
958Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML
959guidance.
960
961@item
962Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
963in time for GCC 3.0.
964
965@item
966Krister Walfridsson for random bug fixes.
967
968@item
969Feng Wang for contributions to GNU Fortran.
970
971@item
972Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files
973work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time
974header tree.
975
976@item
977John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
978related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
979value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
980
981@item
982Ulrich Weigand for work on the s390 port.
983
984@item
985Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bug fixes.
986
987@item
988Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ@.
989
990@item
991Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.
992
993@item
994Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with
995Classpath.
996
997@item
998Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
999
1000@item
1001Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
1002
1003@item
1004Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
1005problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
1006reduction and other loop optimizations.
1007
1008@item
1009Paul Woegerer and Tal Agmon for the CRX port.
1010
1011@item
1012Carlo Wood for various fixes.
1013
1014@item
1015Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
1016
1017@item
1018Canqun Yang for work on GNU Fortran.
1019
1020@item
1021Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
1022description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
1023
1024@item
1025Kevin Zachmann helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
1026
1027@item
1028Ayal Zaks for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS).
1029
1030@item
1031Xiaoqiang Zhang for work on GNU Fortran.
1032
1033@item
1034Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.
1035
1036@end itemize
1037
1038The following people are recognized for their contributions to GNAT,
1039the Ada front end of GCC:
1040@itemize @bullet
1041@item
1042Bernard Banner
1043
1044@item
1045Romain Berrendonner
1046
1047@item
1048Geert Bosch
1049
1050@item
1051Emmanuel Briot
1052
1053@item
1054Joel Brobecker
1055
1056@item
1057Ben Brosgol
1058
1059@item
1060Vincent Celier
1061
1062@item
1063Arnaud Charlet
1064
1065@item
1066Chien Chieng
1067
1068@item
1069Cyrille Comar
1070
1071@item
1072Cyrille Crozes
1073
1074@item
1075Robert Dewar
1076
1077@item
1078Gary Dismukes
1079
1080@item
1081Robert Duff
1082
1083@item
1084Ed Falis
1085
1086@item
1087Ramon Fernandez
1088
1089@item
1090Sam Figueroa
1091
1092@item
1093Vasiliy Fofanov
1094
1095@item
1096Michael Friess
1097
1098@item
1099Franco Gasperoni
1100
1101@item
1102Ted Giering
1103
1104@item
1105Matthew Gingell
1106
1107@item
1108Laurent Guerby
1109
1110@item
1111Jerome Guitton
1112
1113@item
1114Olivier Hainque
1115
1116@item
1117Jerome Hugues
1118
1119@item
1120Hristian Kirtchev
1121
1122@item
1123Jerome Lambourg
1124
1125@item
1126Bruno Leclerc
1127
1128@item
1129Albert Lee
1130
1131@item
1132Sean McNeil
1133
1134@item
1135Javier Miranda
1136
1137@item
1138Laurent Nana
1139
1140@item
1141Pascal Obry
1142
1143@item
1144Dong-Ik Oh
1145
1146@item
1147Laurent Pautet
1148
1149@item
1150Brett Porter
1151
1152@item
1153Thomas Quinot
1154
1155@item
1156Nicolas Roche
1157
1158@item
1159Pat Rogers
1160
1161@item
1162Jose Ruiz
1163
1164@item
1165Douglas Rupp
1166
1167@item
1168Sergey Rybin
1169
1170@item
1171Gail Schenker
1172
1173@item
1174Ed Schonberg
1175
1176@item
1177Nicolas Setton
1178
1179@item
1180Samuel Tardieu
1181
1182@end itemize
1183
1184
1185The following people are recognized for their contributions of new
1186features, bug reports, testing and integration of classpath/libgcj for
1187GCC version 4.1:
1188@itemize @bullet
1189@item
1190Lillian Angel for @code{JTree} implementation and lots Free Swing
1191additions and bug fixes.
1192
1193@item
1194Wolfgang Baer for @code{GapContent} bug fixes.
1195
1196@item
1197Anthony Balkissoon for @code{JList}, Free Swing 1.5 updates and mouse event
1198fixes, lots of Free Swing work including @code{JTable} editing.
1199
1200@item
1201Stuart Ballard for RMI constant fixes.
1202
1203@item
1204Goffredo Baroncelli for @code{HTTPURLConnection} fixes.
1205
1206@item
1207Gary Benson for @code{MessageFormat} fixes.
1208
1209@item
1210Daniel Bonniot for @code{Serialization} fixes.
1211
1212@item
1213Chris Burdess for lots of gnu.xml and http protocol fixes, @code{StAX}
1214and @code{DOM xml:id} support.
1215
1216@item
1217Ka-Hing Cheung for @code{TreePath} and @code{TreeSelection} fixes.
1218
1219@item
1220Archie Cobbs for build fixes, VM interface updates,
1221@code{URLClassLoader} updates.
1222
1223@item
1224Kelley Cook for build fixes.
1225
1226@item
1227Martin Cordova for Suggestions for better @code{SocketTimeoutException}.
1228
1229@item
1230David Daney for @code{BitSet} bug fixes, @code{HttpURLConnection}
1231rewrite and improvements.
1232
1233@item
1234Thomas Fitzsimmons for lots of upgrades to the gtk+ AWT and Cairo 2D
1235support. Lots of imageio framework additions, lots of AWT and Free
1236Swing bug fixes.
1237
1238@item
1239Jeroen Frijters for @code{ClassLoader} and nio cleanups, serialization fixes,
1240better @code{Proxy} support, bug fixes and IKVM integration.
1241
1242@item
1243Santiago Gala for @code{AccessControlContext} fixes.
1244
1245@item
1246Nicolas Geoffray for @code{VMClassLoader} and @code{AccessController}
1247improvements.
1248
1249@item
1250David Gilbert for @code{basic} and @code{metal} icon and plaf support
1251and lots of documenting, Lots of Free Swing and metal theme
1252additions. @code{MetalIconFactory} implementation.
1253
1254@item
1255Anthony Green for @code{MIDI} framework, @code{ALSA} and @code{DSSI}
1256providers.
1257
1258@item
1259Andrew Haley for @code{Serialization} and @code{URLClassLoader} fixes,
1260gcj build speedups.
1261
1262@item
1263Kim Ho for @code{JFileChooser} implementation.
1264
1265@item
1266Andrew John Hughes for @code{Locale} and net fixes, URI RFC2986
1267updates, @code{Serialization} fixes, @code{Properties} XML support and
1268generic branch work, VMIntegration guide update.
1269
1270@item
1271Bastiaan Huisman for @code{TimeZone} bug fixing.
1272
1273@item
1274Andreas Jaeger for mprec updates.
1275
1276@item
1277Paul Jenner for better @option{-Werror} support.
1278
1279@item
1280Ito Kazumitsu for @code{NetworkInterface} implementation and updates.
1281
1282@item
1283Roman Kennke for @code{BoxLayout}, @code{GrayFilter} and
1284@code{SplitPane}, plus bug fixes all over. Lots of Free Swing work
1285including styled text.
1286
1287@item
1288Simon Kitching for @code{String} cleanups and optimization suggestions.
1289
1290@item
1291Michael Koch for configuration fixes, @code{Locale} updates, bug and
1292build fixes.
1293
1294@item
1295Guilhem Lavaux for configuration, thread and channel fixes and Kaffe
1296integration. JCL native @code{Pointer} updates. Logger bug fixes.
1297
1298@item
1299David Lichteblau for JCL support library global/local reference
1300cleanups.
1301
1302@item
1303Aaron Luchko for JDWP updates and documentation fixes.
1304
1305@item
1306Ziga Mahkovec for @code{Graphics2D} upgraded to Cairo 0.5 and new regex
1307features.
1308
1309@item
1310Sven de Marothy for BMP imageio support, CSS and @code{TextLayout}
1311fixes. @code{GtkImage} rewrite, 2D, awt, free swing and date/time fixes and
1312implementing the Qt4 peers.
1313
1314@item
1315Casey Marshall for crypto algorithm fixes, @code{FileChannel} lock,
1316@code{SystemLogger} and @code{FileHandler} rotate implementations, NIO
1317@code{FileChannel.map} support, security and policy updates.
1318
1319@item
1320Bryce McKinlay for RMI work.
1321
1322@item
1323Audrius Meskauskas for lots of Free Corba, RMI and HTML work plus
1324testing and documenting.
1325
1326@item
1327Kalle Olavi Niemitalo for build fixes.
1328
1329@item
1330Rainer Orth for build fixes.
1331
1332@item
1333Andrew Overholt for @code{File} locking fixes.
1334
1335@item
1336Ingo Proetel for @code{Image}, @code{Logger} and @code{URLClassLoader}
1337updates.
1338
1339@item
1340Olga Rodimina for @code{MenuSelectionManager} implementation.
1341
1342@item
1343Jan Roehrich for @code{BasicTreeUI} and @code{JTree} fixes.
1344
1345@item
1346Julian Scheid for documentation updates and gjdoc support.
1347
1348@item
1349Christian Schlichtherle for zip fixes and cleanups.
1350
1351@item
1352Robert Schuster for documentation updates and beans fixes,
1353@code{TreeNode} enumerations and @code{ActionCommand} and various
1354fixes, XML and URL, AWT and Free Swing bug fixes.
1355
1356@item
1357Keith Seitz for lots of JDWP work.
1358
1359@item
1360Christian Thalinger for 64-bit cleanups, Configuration and VM
1361interface fixes and @code{CACAO} integration, @code{fdlibm} updates.
1362
1363@item
1364Gael Thomas for @code{VMClassLoader} boot packages support suggestions.
1365
1366@item
1367Andreas Tobler for Darwin and Solaris testing and fixing, @code{Qt4}
1368support for Darwin/OS X, @code{Graphics2D} support, @code{gtk+}
1369updates.
1370
1371@item
1372Dalibor Topic for better @code{DEBUG} support, build cleanups and
1373Kaffe integration. @code{Qt4} build infrastructure, @code{SHA1PRNG}
1374and @code{GdkPixbugDecoder} updates.
1375
1376@item
1377Tom Tromey for Eclipse integration, generics work, lots of bug fixes
1378and gcj integration including coordinating The Big Merge.
1379
1380@item
1381Mark Wielaard for bug fixes, packaging and release management,
1382@code{Clipboard} implementation, system call interrupts and network
1383timeouts and @code{GdkPixpufDecoder} fixes.
1384
1385@end itemize
1386
1387
1388In addition to the above, all of which also contributed time and energy in
1389testing GCC, we would like to thank the following for their contributions
1390to testing:
1391
1392@itemize @bullet
1393@item
1394Michael Abd-El-Malek
1395
1396@item
1397Thomas Arend
1398
1399@item
1400Bonzo Armstrong
1401
1402@item
1403Steven Ashe
1404
1405@item
1406Chris Baldwin
1407
1408@item
1409David Billinghurst
1410
1411@item
1412Jim Blandy
1413
1414@item
1415Stephane Bortzmeyer
1416
1417@item
1418Horst von Brand
1419
1420@item
1421Frank Braun
1422
1423@item
1424Rodney Brown
1425
1426@item
1427Sidney Cadot
1428
1429@item
1430Bradford Castalia
1431
1432@item
1433Robert Clark
1434
1435@item
1436Jonathan Corbet
1437
1438@item
1439Ralph Doncaster
1440
1441@item
1442Richard Emberson
1443
1444@item
1445Levente Farkas
1446
1447@item
1448Graham Fawcett
1449
1450@item
1451Mark Fernyhough
1452
1453@item
1454Robert A. French
1455
1456@item
1457J@"orgen Freyh
1458
1459@item
1460Mark K. Gardner
1461
1462@item
1463Charles-Antoine Gauthier
1464
1465@item
1466Yung Shing Gene
1467
1468@item
1469David Gilbert
1470
1471@item
1472Simon Gornall
1473
1474@item
1475Fred Gray
1476
1477@item
1478John Griffin
1479
1480@item
1481Patrik Hagglund
1482
1483@item
1484Phil Hargett
1485
1486@item
1487Amancio Hasty
1488
1489@item
1490Takafumi Hayashi
1491
1492@item
1493Bryan W. Headley
1494
1495@item
1496Kevin B. Hendricks
1497
1498@item
1499Joep Jansen
1500
1501@item
1502Christian Joensson
1503
1504@item
1505Michel Kern
1506
1507@item
1508David Kidd
1509
1510@item
1511Tobias Kuipers
1512
1513@item
1514Anand Krishnaswamy
1515
1516@item
1517A. O. V. Le Blanc
1518
1519@item
1520llewelly
1521
1522@item
1523Damon Love
1524
1525@item
1526Brad Lucier
1527
1528@item
1529Matthias Klose
1530
1531@item
1532Martin Knoblauch
1533
1534@item
1535Rick Lutowski
1536
1537@item
1538Jesse Macnish
1539
1540@item
1541Stefan Morrell
1542
1543@item
1544Anon A. Mous
1545
1546@item
1547Matthias Mueller
1548
1549@item
1550Pekka Nikander
1551
1552@item
1553Rick Niles
1554
1555@item
1556Jon Olson
1557
1558@item
1559Magnus Persson
1560
1561@item
1562Chris Pollard
1563
1564@item
1565Richard Polton
1566
1567@item
1568Derk Reefman
1569
1570@item
1571David Rees
1572
1573@item
1574Paul Reilly
1575
1576@item
1577Tom Reilly
1578
1579@item
1580Torsten Rueger
1581
1582@item
1583Danny Sadinoff
1584
1585@item
1586Marc Schifer
1587
1588@item
1589Erik Schnetter
1590
1591@item
1592Wayne K. Schroll
1593
1594@item
1595David Schuler
1596
1597@item
1598Vin Shelton
1599
1600@item
1601Tim Souder
1602
1603@item
1604Adam Sulmicki
1605
1606@item
1607Bill Thorson
1608
1609@item
1610George Talbot
1611
1612@item
1613Pedro A. M. Vazquez
1614
1615@item
1616Gregory Warnes
1617
1618@item
1619Ian Watson
1620
1621@item
1622David E. Young
1623
1624@item
1625And many others
1626@end itemize
1627
1628And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, provides
1629feedback and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first
1630place.
1631