1 @c Copyright (C) 1988,1989,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,
2 @c 2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 @c This is part of the GCC manual.
4 @c For copying conditions, see the file gcc.texi.
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 Uros Bizjak for the implementation of x87 math built-in functions and
69 for various middle end and i386 back end improvements and bugfixes.
72 Eric Blake for helping to make GCJ and libgcj conform to the
76 Janne Blomqvist for contributions to GNU Fortran.
79 Segher Boessenkool for various fixes.
82 Hans-J. Boehm for his @uref{http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/,,
83 garbage collector}, IA-64 libffi port, and other Java work.
86 Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other
87 miscellaneous clean-ups.
90 Steven Bosscher for integrating the GNU Fortran front end into GCC and for
91 contributing to the tree-ssa branch.
94 Eric Botcazou for fixing middle- and backend bugs left and right.
97 Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
98 improvements to the infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
99 front end implementation. Initial implementations of
100 cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++)
101 maintainer. Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of GCJ@.
104 Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
107 Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
110 Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
113 Paul Brook for work on the ARM architecture and maintaining GNU Fortran.
116 Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
119 Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
122 Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
125 Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ@.
128 Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
131 Craig Burley for leadership of the G77 Fortran effort.
134 Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++.
137 Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to
138 the C++ strings, streambufs and formatted I/O, hard detective work on
139 the frustrating localization issues, and keeping up with the problem reports.
142 John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
143 previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
146 Stephane Carrez for 68HC11 and 68HC12 ports.
149 Steve Chamberlain for support for the Renesas SH and H8 processors
150 and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.
153 Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ@.
156 John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches.
159 Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
162 Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.
165 Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
168 The @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/,,GNU Classpath project}
169 for all of their merged runtime code.
172 Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and
173 other random hacking.
176 Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings.
179 R. Kelley Cook for making GCC buildable from a read-only directory as
180 well as other miscellaneous build process and documentation clean-ups.
183 Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing.
186 Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
190 Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
193 Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
196 Paul Dale for his work to add uClinux platform support to the
200 Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
201 that print a copy of their source.
204 Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.
207 Bud Davis for work on the G77 and GNU Fortran compilers.
210 Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes.
213 DJ Delorie for the DJGPP port, build and libiberty maintenance,
214 various bug fixes, and the M32C port.
217 Arnaud Desitter for helping to debug GNU Fortran.
220 Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to G++, contributions and
221 maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3,
222 including @code{valarray<>}, @code{complex<>}, maintaining the numerics library
223 (including that pesky @code{<limits>} :-) and keeping up-to-date anything
227 Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99
228 support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime
229 libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and
230 maintaining @code{complex<>}, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration
231 architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.
234 Zdenek Dvorak for a new loop unroller and various fixes.
237 Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
240 David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work
241 with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes,
242 doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands, and for
243 ensuring GCC properly keeps working on AIX@.
246 Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in
250 Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery,
251 documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional
252 iostream bug fix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
255 Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
258 Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++
259 configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.
262 Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.
265 Christian Ehrhardt for dealing with bug reports.
268 Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
269 own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
272 Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
275 Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
279 Christopher Faylor for his work on the Cygwin port and for caring and
280 feeding the gcc.gnu.org box and saving its users tons of spam.
283 Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
286 Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portuguese translation of the GCJ FAQ@.
289 Peter Gerwinski for various bug fixes and the Pascal front end.
292 Kaveh R.@: Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee, amazing
293 work to make @samp{-W -Wall -W* -Werror} useful, and continuously
294 testing GCC on a plethora of platforms. Kaveh extends his gratitude to
295 the @uref{http://www.caip.rutgers.edu,,CAIP Center} at Rutgers
296 University for providing him with computing resources to work on Free
297 Software since the late 1980s.
300 John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.
303 Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
306 Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
307 multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
308 support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
309 via the steering committee.
312 Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work.
315 Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug Java code.
318 Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
321 Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
322 tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
323 the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
324 Intel 386 and 860 support.
327 Mostafa Hagog for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS) and post reload GCSE@.
330 Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
331 warnings and assorted bug fixes.
334 Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
337 Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
340 Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
341 the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
345 Dara Hazeghi for wading through myriads of target-specific bug reports.
348 Kate Hedstrom for staking the G77 folks with an initial testsuite.
351 Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, ia32, and ia64 work, loop
352 opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
353 years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
357 Aldy Hernandez for working on the PowerPC port, SIMD support, and
361 Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
362 the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
365 Kazu Hirata for caring and feeding the Renesas H8/300 port and various fixes.
368 Katherine Holcomb for work on GNU Fortran.
371 Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
372 of testing and bug fixing, particularly of GCC configury code.
375 Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
378 Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
381 Falk Hueffner for working on C and optimization bug reports.
384 Bernardo Innocenti for his m68k work, including merging of
385 ColdFire improvements and uClinux support.
388 Christian Iseli for various bug fixes.
391 Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
394 Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
397 Andreas Jaeger for testing and benchmarking of GCC and various bug fixes.
400 Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
401 as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
405 Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes, her quality improvement
406 sidetracks, and web page maintenance.
409 Kean Johnston for SCO OpenServer support and various fixes.
412 Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
413 Kenner's ``toy'' language.
416 Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation.
419 Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
422 Steven G. Kargl for work on GNU Fortran.
425 David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
428 Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bug fixes and optimizations of
429 strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.
432 Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
433 and his automatic regression tester.
436 Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with G++ and for a lot of early work
437 in just about every part of libstdc++.
440 Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
444 Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
445 Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
446 Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
447 instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
448 processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
449 strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
450 code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
451 elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
452 head maintainer of GCC for several years.
455 Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and
456 maintaining binary releases for Microsoft Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++
457 porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32.
460 Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
463 Mark Klein for PA improvements.
466 Thomas Koenig for various bug fixes.
469 Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
472 Benjamin Kosnik for his G++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
475 Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
479 Asher Langton and Mike Kumbera for contributing Cray pointer support
480 to GNU Fortran, and for other GNU Fortran improvements.
483 Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
484 entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
485 handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
486 fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
489 Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
490 with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
493 Victor Leikehman for work on GNU Fortran.
496 Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
499 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for C++ improvements including template as template
500 parameter support, and many C++ fixes.
503 Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
504 random work on the Java front end.
507 Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU@.
510 Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and
514 Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
517 Chen Liqin for various S+core related fixes/improvement, and for
518 maintaining the S+core port.
521 Weiwen Liu for testing and various bug fixes.
524 Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
528 Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
529 various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of
530 assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges.
533 H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
534 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
537 Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
540 Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
541 various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
544 Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking
545 improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and
546 direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and
547 implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler.
550 Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
553 Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and
554 improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.
557 All of the Mauve project
558 @uref{http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/mauve/THANKS?rev=1.2&cvsroot=mauve&only_with_tag=HEAD,,contributors},
562 Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.
565 Adam Megacz for his work on the Microsoft Windows port of GCJ@.
568 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
569 powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
572 Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
576 Martin Michlmayr for testing GCC on several architectures using the
577 entire Debian archive.
580 David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
581 SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
585 Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
588 Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bug fixes, and turning the
589 entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.
592 Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
593 C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
594 ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.x.
597 Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
600 Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
601 maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
604 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
605 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
606 services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and
607 the backs of envelopes would have been@dots{} difficult.
610 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
611 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
615 Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.
618 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements, and for the initial
622 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
623 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
624 than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
627 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
630 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
633 Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
634 C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
637 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship
638 through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale
639 infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project
640 documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on
641 MT-safe string and shadow headers.
644 Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.
647 Nathanael Nerode for cleaning up the configuration/build process.
650 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
654 Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
655 engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
658 Geoff Noer for his work on getting cygwin native builds working.
661 Diego Novillo for his work on Tree SSA, OpenMP, SPEC performance
662 tracking web pages and assorted fixes.
665 David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
666 FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
670 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
671 amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy.
674 Stefan Olsson for work on mt_alloc.
677 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
680 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to GCC's o32
681 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
682 clean-ups and porting work, etc.
685 Hartmut Penner for work on the s390 port.
688 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
691 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and
692 continued Java maintainership.
695 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
698 Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
699 out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
700 taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
703 Andrew Pinski for processing bug reports by the dozen.
706 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
710 Jerry Quinn for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O@.
713 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
714 cleanups in the compiler.
717 Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT@.
720 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
724 Volker Reichelt for keeping up with the problem reports.
727 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
731 Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD
732 port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical
733 threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems,
734 as well as keeping GCC properly working on FreeBSD and continuous testing.
737 Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
740 Ola R@"onnerup for work on mt_alloc.
743 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
746 David Ronis inspired and encouraged Craig to rewrite the G77
747 documentation in texinfo format by contributing a first pass at a
748 translation of the old @file{g77-0.5.16/f/DOC} file.
751 Ken Rose for fixes to GCC's delay slot filling code.
754 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
757 P@'etur Run@'olfsson for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O and
758 large file support in C++ filebuf.
761 Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits,
762 Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support.
765 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
768 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
771 Roger Sayle for improvements to constant folding and GCC's RTL optimizers
772 as well as for fixing numerous bugs.
775 Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ@.
778 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
781 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
784 Tobias Schl@"uter for work on GNU Fortran.
787 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
788 work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
792 Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++---especially application
793 testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release
794 criteria---and libstdc++ header file tweaks.
797 Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.
800 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
803 Lars Segerlund for work on GNU Fortran.
806 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
807 contributions and RTEMS testing.
810 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
813 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
814 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
815 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
818 Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from
819 the LWG (thereby keeping GCC in line with updates from the ISO)@.
822 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
826 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
829 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
832 Danny Smith for his major efforts on the Mingw (and Cygwin) ports.
835 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
838 Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++
839 testsuite entries. Also for providing the patch to G77 to add
840 rudimentary support for @code{INTEGER*1}, @code{INTEGER*2}, and
844 Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique.
847 Richard Stallman, for writing the original GCC and launching the GNU project.
850 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
851 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
854 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
857 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
860 Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
863 John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.
866 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, G++ contributions over the years and more
867 recently his vxworks contributions
870 Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.
873 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
876 Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking,
880 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU@.
883 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
886 Philipp Thomas for random bug fixes throughout the compiler
889 Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD@.
892 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
893 language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
896 Michael Tiemann for random bug fixes, the first instruction scheduler,
897 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
898 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
901 Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.
904 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
907 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
908 definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
911 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java
912 contributions and libgcj maintainership.
915 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
919 Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes.
922 Andy Vaught for the design and initial implementation of the GNU Fortran
926 Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their
927 associated configure steps.
930 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
933 Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML
937 Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
941 Krister Walfridsson for random bug fixes.
944 Feng Wang for contributions to GNU Fortran.
947 Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files
948 work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time
952 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
953 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
954 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
957 Ulrich Weigand for work on the s390 port.
960 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bug fixes.
963 Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ@.
966 Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.
969 Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with
973 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
976 Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
979 Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
980 problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
981 reduction and other loop optimizations.
984 Paul Woegerer and Tal Agmon for the CRX port.
987 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
990 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
993 Canqun Yang for work on GNU Fortran.
996 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
997 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
1000 Kevin Zachmann helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
1003 Ayal Zaks for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS).
1006 Xiaoqiang Zhang for work on GNU Fortran.
1009 Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.
1013 The following people are recognized for their contributions to GNAT,
1014 the Ada front end of GCC:
1160 The following people are recognized for their contributions of new
1161 features, bug reports, testing and integration of classpath/libgcj for
1165 Lillian Angel for @code{JTree} implementation and lots Free Swing
1166 additions and bugfixes.
1169 Wolfgang Baer for @code{GapContent} bugfixes.
1172 Anthony Balkissoon for @code{JList}, Free Swing 1.5 updates and mouse event
1173 fixes, lots of Free Swing work including @code{JTable} editing.
1176 Stuart Ballard for RMI constant fixes.
1179 Goffredo Baroncelli for @code{HTTPURLConnection} fixes.
1182 Gary Benson for @code{MessageFormat} fixes.
1185 Daniel Bonniot for @code{Serialization} fixes.
1188 Chris Burdess for lots of gnu.xml and http protocol fixes, @code{StAX}
1189 and @code{DOM xml:id} support.
1192 Ka-Hing Cheung for @code{TreePath} and @code{TreeSelection} fixes.
1195 Archie Cobbs for build fixes, VM interface updates,
1196 @code{URLClassLoader} updates.
1199 Kelley Cook for build fixes.
1202 Martin Cordova for Suggestions for better @code{SocketTimeoutException}.
1205 David Daney for @code{BitSet} bugfixes, @code{HttpURLConnection}
1206 rewrite and improvements.
1209 Thomas Fitzsimmons for lots of upgrades to the gtk+ AWT and Cairo 2D
1210 support. Lots of imageio framework additions, lots of AWT and Free
1214 Jeroen Frijters for @code{ClassLoader} and nio cleanups, serialization fixes,
1215 better @code{Proxy} support, bugfixes and IKVM integration.
1218 Santiago Gala for @code{AccessControlContext} fixes.
1221 Nicolas Geoffray for @code{VMClassLoader} and @code{AccessController}
1225 David Gilbert for @code{basic} and @code{metal} icon and plaf support
1226 and lots of documenting, Lots of Free Swing and metal theme
1227 additions. @code{MetalIconFactory} implementation.
1230 Anthony Green for @code{MIDI} framework, @code{ALSA} and @code{DSSI}
1234 Andrew Haley for @code{Serialization} and @code{URLClassLoader} fixes,
1238 Kim Ho for @code{JFileChooser} implementation.
1241 Andrew John Hughes for @code{Locale} and net fixes, URI RFC2986
1242 updates, @code{Serialization} fixes, @code{Properties} XML support and
1243 generic branch work, VMIntegration guide update.
1246 Bastiaan Huisman for @code{TimeZone} bugfixing.
1249 Andreas Jaeger for mprec updates.
1252 Paul Jenner for better @option{-Werror} support.
1255 Ito Kazumitsu for @code{NetworkInterface} implementation and updates.
1258 Roman Kennke for @code{BoxLayout}, @code{GrayFilter} and
1259 @code{SplitPane}, plus bugfixes all over. Lots of Free Swing work
1260 including styled text.
1263 Simon Kitching for @code{String} cleanups and optimization suggestions.
1266 Michael Koch for configuration fixes, @code{Locale} updates, bug and
1270 Guilhem Lavaux for configuration, thread and channel fixes and Kaffe
1271 integration. JCL native @code{Pointer} updates. Logger bugfixes.
1274 David Lichteblau for JCL support library global/local reference
1278 Aaron Luchko for JDWP updates and documentation fixes.
1281 Ziga Mahkovec for @code{Graphics2D} upgraded to Cairo 0.5 and new regex
1285 Sven de Marothy for BMP imageio support, CSS and @code{TextLayout}
1286 fixes. @code{GtkImage} rewrite, 2D, awt, free swing and date/time fixes and
1287 implementing the Qt4 peers.
1290 Casey Marshall for crypto algorithm fixes, @code{FileChannel} lock,
1291 @code{SystemLogger} and @code{FileHandler} rotate implementations, NIO
1292 @code{FileChannel.map} support, security and policy updates.
1295 Bryce McKinlay for RMI work.
1298 Audrius Meskauskas for lots of Free Corba, RMI and HTML work plus
1299 testing and documenting.
1302 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo for build fixes.
1305 Rainer Orth for build fixes.
1308 Andrew Overholt for @code{File} locking fixes.
1311 Ingo Proetel for @code{Image}, @code{Logger} and @code{URLClassLoader}
1315 Olga Rodimina for @code{MenuSelectionManager} implementation.
1318 Jan Roehrich for @code{BasicTreeUI} and @code{JTree} fixes.
1321 Julian Scheid for documentation updates and gjdoc support.
1324 Christian Schlichtherle for zip fixes and cleanups.
1327 Robert Schuster for documentation updates and beans fixes,
1328 @code{TreeNode} enumerations and @code{ActionCommand} and various
1329 fixes, XML and URL, AWT and Free Swing bugfixes.
1332 Keith Seitz for lots of JDWP work.
1335 Christian Thalinger for 64-bit cleanups, Configuration and VM
1336 interface fixes and @code{CACAO} integration, @code{fdlibm} updates.
1339 Gael Thomas for @code{VMClassLoader} boot packages support suggestions.
1342 Andreas Tobler for Darwin and Solaris testing and fixing, @code{Qt4}
1343 support for Darwin/OS X, @code{Graphics2D} support, @code{gtk+}
1347 Dalibor Topic for better @code{DEBUG} support, build cleanups and
1348 Kaffe integration. @code{Qt4} build infrastructure, @code{SHA1PRNG}
1349 and @code{GdkPixbugDecoder} updates.
1352 Tom Tromey for Eclipse integration, generics work, lots of bugfixes
1353 and gcj integration including coordinating The Big Merge.
1356 Mark Wielaard for bugfixes, packaging and release management,
1357 @code{Clipboard} implementation, system call interrupts and network
1358 timeouts and @code{GdkPixpufDecoder} fixes.
1363 In addition to the above, all of which also contributed time and energy in
1364 testing GCC, we would like to thank the following for their contributions
1369 Michael Abd-El-Malek
1435 Charles-Antoine Gauthier
1600 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug
1601 reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.