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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} if you have been left out
14 or some of your contributions are not listed. Please keep this list in
17 Some projects operating under the GCC project maintain their own list
18 of contributors, such as
19 @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/libstdc++/,the C++ library}.
24 Analog Devices helped implement the support for complex data types
28 John David Anglin for improvements to libstdc++-v3 and the HP-UX port.
31 James van Artsdalen wrote the code that makes efficient use of
32 the Intel 80387 register stack.
35 Alasdair Baird for various bugfixes.
38 Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end.
41 Neil Booth for various work on cpplib.
44 Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
45 improvements to our infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
46 and Java front end implementations. Initial implementations of
47 cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library
51 Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
54 Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
57 Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
60 Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
63 Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
66 Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
69 Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
72 Craig Burley for leadership of the Fortran effort.
75 Paolo Carlini for his work on libstdc++-v3.
78 John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
79 previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
82 Steve Chamberlain wrote the support for the Hitachi SH and H8 processors
83 and the PicoJava processor.
86 Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
89 Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
92 Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and other random
96 Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing.
99 Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
103 Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
106 Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
109 Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
110 that print a copy of their source.
113 Ulrich Drepper for his work on the C++ runtime libraries, glibc,
114 testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99 support, CFG dumping support, etc.
117 Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
120 David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee,
121 ongoing work with the RS6000/PowerPC port, and help cleaning up Haifa
125 Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
128 Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements.
131 Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
132 own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
135 Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
138 Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
142 Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
145 Peter Gerwinski for various bugfixes and the Pascal front end.
148 Kaveh Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee and
149 amazing work to make @samp{-W -Wall} useful.
152 Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
155 Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
156 multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
157 support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
158 via the steering committee.
161 Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work.
164 Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
167 Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
168 tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
169 the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
170 Intel 386 and 860 support.
173 Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
174 warnings and assorted bugfixes.
177 Andrew Haley for his Java work.
180 Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
183 Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
184 the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
188 Kate Hedstrom for staking the g77 folks with an initial testsuite.
191 Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, and ia32 work, loop
192 opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
193 years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
197 Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
198 the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
201 Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
202 of testing an bugfixing, particularly of our configury code.
205 Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
208 Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
211 Christian Iseli for various bugfixes.
214 Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
217 Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
220 Andreas Jaeger for various fixes to the MIPS port
223 Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
224 as lots of bug fixes and test cases.
227 Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes and for her quality improvement
231 J. Kean Johnston for OpenServer support.
234 Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
237 David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
240 Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
241 and his automatic regression tester.
244 Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with g++.
247 Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
251 Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
252 Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
253 Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
254 instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
255 processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
256 strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
257 code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
258 elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
259 head maintainer of GCC for several years.
262 Mumit Khan for various contributions to the cygwin and mingw32 ports and
263 maintaining binary releases for Windows hosts.
266 Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
269 Mark Klein for PA improvements.
272 Thomas Koenig for various bugfixes.
275 Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
278 Benjamin Kosnik for his g++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
281 Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
285 Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
286 entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
287 handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
288 fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
291 Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
292 with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
295 Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
298 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for improvements to demangler and various c++ fixes.
301 Warren Levy major work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and random
302 work on the Java front end.
305 Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU.
308 Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
311 Weiwen Liu for testing and various bugfixes.
314 Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
318 Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
319 and various C++ improvements including namespace support.
322 H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
323 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
326 Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
329 Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
330 various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
333 Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC
334 hacking improvements to compile-time performance and overall knowledge
335 and direction in the area of instruction scheduling.
338 Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
341 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
342 powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
345 Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
349 David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
350 SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
354 Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
357 Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
358 C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
359 ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.x.
362 Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
365 Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
366 maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
369 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
370 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
371 services, ftp services, etc etc.
374 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
375 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
379 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements.
382 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
383 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
384 than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
387 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
390 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
393 Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
394 C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
397 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3.
400 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
404 Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
405 engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
408 Geoff Noer for this work on getting cygwin native builds working.
411 David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
412 FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
416 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
417 amazing testing work.
420 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
423 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to our o32
424 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, etc.
427 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
430 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for his Java work.
433 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
436 Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
437 out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
438 taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
441 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
445 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
446 cleanups in the compiler.
449 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
453 Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions and maintenance of libstdc++-v3,
454 including valarray implementation and limits support.
457 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
461 Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 and the FreeBSD port.
464 Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
467 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
470 Ken Rose for fixes to our delay slot filling code.
473 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
476 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
479 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
482 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
485 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
488 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
489 work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
493 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
496 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
497 contributions and RTEMS testing.
500 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
503 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
504 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
505 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
508 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
512 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
515 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
518 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
521 Scott Snyder for various fixes.
524 Richard Stallman, for writing the original gcc and launching the GNU project.
527 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
528 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
531 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
534 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
537 Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
540 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, g++ contributions over the years and more
541 recently his vxworks contributions
544 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
547 Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking,
551 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU.
554 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
557 Philipp Thomas for random bugfixes throughout the compiler
560 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
564 Michael Tiemann for random bugfixes, the first instruction scheduler,
565 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
566 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
569 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
572 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
573 definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
576 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and his Java work.
579 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
583 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
586 Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
590 Krister Walfridsson for random bugfixes.
593 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
594 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
595 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
598 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bugfixes.
601 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
604 Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
607 Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
608 problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
609 reduction and other loop optimizations.
612 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
615 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
618 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
619 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
622 Kevin Zachmann helped ported GCC to the Tahoe.
627 We'd also like to thank the folks who have contributed time and energy in
743 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug
744 reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.