@c Copyright (C) 1988,1989,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002 @c Free Software Foundation, Inc. @c This is part of the GCC manual. @c For copying conditions, see the file gcc.texi. @node Contributors @unnumbered Contributors to GCC @cindex contributors The GCC project would like to thank its many contributors. Without them the project would not have been nearly as successful as it has been. Any omissions in this list are accidental. Feel free to contact @email{law@@redhat.com} or @email{gerald@@pfeifer.com} if you have been left out or some of your contributions are not listed. Please keep this list in alphabetical order. @itemize @bullet @item Analog Devices helped implement the support for complex data types and iterators. @item John David Anglin for threading-related fixes and improvements to libstdc++-v3, and the HP-UX port. @item James van Artsdalen wrote the code that makes efficient use of the Intel 80387 register stack. @item Alasdair Baird for various bugfixes. @item Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end. @item Godmar Back for his Java improvements and encouragement. @item Scott Bambrough for help porting the Java compiler. @item Jon Beniston for his Win32 port of Java. @item Geoff Berry for his Java object serialization work and various patches. @item Eric Blake for helping to make GCJ and libgcj conform to the specifications. @item Hans-J. Boehm for his @uref{http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/,, garbage collector}, IA-64 libffi port, and other Java work. @item Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other miscellaneous clean-ups. @item Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various improvements to our infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill front end implementation. Initial implementations of cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++) maintainer. Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of GCJ. @item Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe. @item Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions. @item Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill. @item Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems. @item Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination. @item Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes. @item Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ. @item Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee. @item Craig Burley for leadership of the Fortran effort. @item Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++. @item Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to the string class, hard detective work on the frustrating localization issues, and keeping up with the problem reports. @item John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements, previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc. @item Steve Chamberlain for support for the Hitachi SH and H8 processors and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes. @item Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ. @item John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches. @item Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions. @item Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups. @item Branko Cibej for more warning contributions. @item The @uref{http://www.classpath.org,,GNU Classpath project} for all of their merged runtime code. @item Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and other random hacking. @item Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings. @item Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing. @item Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind the scenes hacking. @item Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1. @item Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port. @item Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs that print a copy of their source. @item Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++. @item Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes. @item Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to g++, contributions and maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3, including valarray<>, complex<>, maintaining the numerics library (including that pesky :-) and keeping up-to-date anything to do with numbers. @item Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99 support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and maintaining complex<>, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work. @item Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@. @item David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes, and for doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands. @item Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in libstdc++. @item Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery, documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional iostream bugfix, and work on shared library symbol versioning. @item Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@. @item Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++ configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes. @item Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams. @item Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf. @item Marc Espie for OpenBSD support. @item Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r, and SPARC work. @item Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes. @item Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portugese translation of the GCJ FAQ. @item Peter Gerwinski for various bugfixes and the Pascal front end. @item Kaveh Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee and amazing work to make @samp{-W -Wall} useful. @item John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java. @item Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions. @item Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite, multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction via the steering committee. @item Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work. @item Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug our code. @item Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11. @item Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize} tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the Intel 386 and 860 support. @item Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new warnings and assorted bugfixes. @item Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts. @item Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300. @item Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and fixes. @item Kate Hedstrom for staking the g77 folks with an initial testsuite. @item Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, and ia32 work, loop opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing tons of patches. @item Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed the support for the Sony NEWS machine. @item Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots of testing an bugfixing, particularly of our configury code. @item Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches. @item Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements. @item Christian Iseli for various bugfixes. @item Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking. @item Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing. @item Andreas Jaeger for various fixes to the MIPS port @item Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build system. @item Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes and for her quality improvement sidetracks. @item J. Kean Johnston for OpenServer support. @item Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard Kenner's "``toy'' language". @item Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation. @item Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target. @item David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@. @item Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bugfixes and optimizations of strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes. @item Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux and his automatic regression tester. @item Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with g++ and for a lot of early work in just about every part of libstdc++. @item Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the MIL-STD-1750A@. @item Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC processors including changes to common subexpression elimination, strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the head maintainer of GCC for several years. @item Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and maintaining binary releases for Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++ porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32. @item Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support. @item Mark Klein for PA improvements. @item Thomas Koenig for various bugfixes. @item Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code. @item Benjamin Kosnik for his g++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort. @item Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions 68020 system. @item Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases, handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking. @item Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping with analysis and improvements of x86 performance. @item Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer. @item Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for improvements to demangler and various c++ fixes. @item Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and random work on the Java front end. @item Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU. @item Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and patches. @item Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc. @item Weiwen Liu for testing and various bugfixes. @item Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and runtime libraries. @item Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure, various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges. @item H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working. @item Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers. @item Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system, various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc. @item Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler. @item Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu. @item Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and improvements, and string clean up and testsuites. @item All of the Mauve project @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/mauve/THANKS?rev=1.2&cvsroot=mauve&only_with_tag=HEAD,,contributors}, for Java test code. @item Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements. @item Adam Megacz for his work on the Win32 port of GCJ. @item Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS, powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking. @item Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading the g++ effort. @item David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel developers. @item Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines. @item Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bugfixes, and turning the entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible. @item Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements, ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.x. @item Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing. @item Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast. @item Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and the backs of envelopes would have been... difficult. @item Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC Linux kernels. @item Mike Moreton for his various Java patches. @item David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements. @item Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support. @item Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues. @item Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port. @item Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation. @item Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on MT-safe string and shadow headers. @item Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++. @item NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C language. @item Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes. @item Geoff Noer for this work on getting cygwin native builds working. @item David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM, FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure improvements. @item Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy. @item Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes. @item Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to our o32 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration clean-ups and porting work, etc. @item Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8. @item Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and continued Java maintainership. @item Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port. @item Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and taking care of documentation maintenance in general. @item Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime libraries. @item Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various cleanups in the compiler. @item Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT. @item David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC port. @item Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload hacking. @item Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems. @item Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports. @item Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work. @item Ken Rose for fixes to our delay slot filling code. @item Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor. @item Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits, Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support. @item Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator. @item Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300. @item Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ. @item Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha. @item William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support. @item Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for GCC 2.95.3. @item Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++ -- especially application testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release criteria -- and libstdc++ header file tweaks. @item Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches. @item Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port. @item Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS contributions and RTEMS testing. @item Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements. @item Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports. @item Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from the LWG (thereby keeping us in line with updates from the ISO). @item Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable for linux. @item Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking. @item Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines. @item Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support. @item Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++ testsuite entries. @item Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique. @item Richard Stallman, for writing the original gcc and launching the GNU project. @item Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description. @item Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements. @item Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer. @item Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements. @item John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes. @item Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, g++ contributions over the years and more recently his vxworks contributions @item Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement. @item Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms. @item Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking, fixincludes, etc. @item Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU. @item Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux. @item Philipp Thomas for random bugfixes throughout the compiler @item Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD. @item Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter. @item Michael Tiemann for random bugfixes, the first instruction scheduler, initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k machine description work, delay slot scheduling. @item Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin. @item Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support. @item Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL definitions, and of the VAX machine description. @item Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java contributions and libgcj maintainership. @item Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor types. @item Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes. @item Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their associated configure steps. @item Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports. @item Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML guidance. @item Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo in time for GCC 3.0. @item Krister Walfridsson for random bugfixes. @item Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time header tree. @item John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator, related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation, value range propagation and other work, WE32k port. @item Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bugfixes. @item Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ. @item Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io. @item Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with Classpath. @item Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe. @item Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port. @item Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength reduction and other loop optimizations. @item Carlo Wood for various fixes. @item Tom Wood for work on the m88k port. @item Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro). @item Kevin Zachmann helped ported GCC to the Tahoe. @item Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix. @end itemize We'd also like to thank the folks who have contributed time and energy in testing GCC: @itemize @bullet @item Michael Abd-El-Malek @item Thomas Arend @item Bonzo Armstrong @item Steven Ashe @item Chris Baldwin @item David Billinghurst @item Jim Blandy @item Stephane Bortzmeyer @item Horst von Brand @item Frank Braun @item Rodney Brown @item Joe Buck @item Craig Burley @item Sidney Cadot @item Bradford Castalia @item Ralph Doncaster @item Ulrich Drepper @item David Edelsohn @item Richard Emberson @item Levente Farkas @item Graham Fawcett @item Robert A. French @item J@"orgen Freyh @item Mark K. Gardner @item Charles-Antoine Gauthier @item Yung Shing Gene @item Kaveh Ghazi @item David Gilbert @item Simon Gornall @item Fred Gray @item John Griffin @item Patrik Hagglund @item Phil Hargett @item Amancio Hasty @item Bryan W. Headley @item Kate Hedstrom @item Richard Henderson @item Kevin B. Hendricks @item Manfred Hollstein @item Kamil Iskra @item Joep Jansen @item Christian Joensson @item David Kidd @item Tobias Kuipers @item Anand Krishnaswamy @item Jeff Law @item Robert Lipe @item llewelly @item Damon Love @item Dave Love @item H.J. Lu @item Brad Lucier @item Mumit Khan @item Matthias Klose @item Martin Knoblauch @item Jesse Macnish @item David Miller @item Toon Moene @item Stefan Morrell @item Anon A. Mous @item Matthias Mueller @item Pekka Nikander @item Alexandre Oliva @item Jon Olson @item Magnus Persson @item Chris Pollard @item Richard Polton @item David Rees @item Paul Reilly @item Tom Reilly @item Loren J. Rittle @item Torsten Rueger @item Danny Sadinoff @item Marc Schifer @item Peter Schmid @item David Schuler @item Vin Shelton @item Franz Sirl @item Tim Souder @item Mike Stump @item Adam Sulmicki @item George Talbot @item Gregory Warnes @item Carlo Wood @item David E. Young @item And many others @end itemize And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.