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d9dc34cd | 1 | @node Contributors, Free Manuals, Platform, Top |
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2 | @c %MENU% Who wrote what parts of the GNU C Library |
3 | @appendix Contributors to @theglibc{} | |
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5 | @Theglibc{} project would like to thank its many contributors. |
6 | Without them the project would not have been nearly as successful as | |
7 | it has been. Any omissions in this list are accidental. Feel free to | |
8 | file a bug in bugzilla if you have been left out or some of your | |
9 | contributions are not listed. Please keep this list in alphabetical | |
10 | order. | |
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11 | |
12 | @itemize @bullet | |
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14 | @item |
15 | Nick Alcock for contributing fixes to allow @theglibc{} to be built with the | |
16 | stack smashing protector enabled. | |
17 | ||
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18 | @item |
19 | John David Anglin for various fixes to the hppa port. | |
20 | ||
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21 | @item |
22 | Albert ARIBAUD for Y2038 related fixes. | |
23 | ||
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25 | Ryan S. Arnold for his improvements for Linux on PowerPC and his direction |
26 | as FSF Project Steward for @theglibc{}. | |
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27 | |
28 | @item | |
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29 | Miles Bader for writing the @code{argp} argument-parsing package, and the |
30 | @code{argz}/@code{envz} interfaces. | |
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31 | |
32 | @item | |
d8e272ab | 33 | Jeff Bailey for his maintainership of the HPPA architecture. |
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34 | |
35 | @item | |
d8e272ab | 36 | Petr Baudis for bug fixes and testing. |
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38 | @item |
39 | Anton Blanchard for various fixes. | |
40 | ||
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42 | Stephen R. van den Berg for contributing a highly-optimized |
43 | @code{strstr} function. | |
3c20b9b6 | 44 | |
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46 | Ondrej Bilka for contributing optimized string routines for x64 and various |
47 | fixes. | |
db24e684 | 48 | |
3c20b9b6 | 49 | @item |
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50 | Eric Blake for adding O(n) implementations of @code{memmem}, |
51 | @code{strstr} and @code{strcasestr}. | |
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52 | |
53 | @item | |
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54 | Philip Blundell for the ports to Linux/ARM |
55 | (@code{arm-@var{ANYTHING}-linuxaout}) and ARM standalone | |
56 | (@code{arm-@var{ANYTHING}-none}), as well as for parts of the IPv6 | |
57 | support code. | |
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58 | |
59 | @item | |
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60 | Per Bothner for the implementation of the @code{libio} library which |
61 | is used to implement @code{stdio} functions. | |
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62 | |
63 | @item | |
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64 | Mark Brown for his direction as part of @theglibc{} steering |
65 | committee. | |
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66 | |
67 | @item | |
d8e272ab | 68 | Thomas Bushnell for his contributions to Hurd. |
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70 | @item |
71 | Rogerio Alves Cardoso for various fixes to PowerPC. | |
72 | ||
73 | @item | |
74 | Paul Clarke for optimized functions on PowerPC. | |
75 | ||
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76 | @item |
77 | Palmer Dabbelt for contributing the port to Linux/RISC-V. | |
78 | ||
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6cca855e | 80 | DJ Delorie for maintenance of Linux/RISC-V, and various fixes. |
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82 | @item |
83 | Wilco Dijkstra for various fixes. | |
84 | ||
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ef48b196 | 86 | Liubov Dmitrieva for optimized string and math functions on x86-64 and |
06c5abbd | 87 | x86. |
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88 | |
89 | @item | |
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90 | Ulrich Drepper for his many contributions in almost all parts of |
91 | @theglibc{}, including: | |
92 | @itemize @bullet | |
136fa185 | 93 | @item writing most of the POSIX Threads Library originally. |
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94 | @item internationalization support, including the @code{locale} and |
95 | @code{localedef} utilities. | |
96 | @item Linux i386/ELF support | |
97 | @item the @code{hsearch} and @code{drand48} families of functions, | |
98 | reentrant @samp{@dots{}@code{_r}} versions of the @code{random} | |
99 | family; System V shared memory and IPC support code | |
100 | @item several highly-optimized string functions for i@var{x}86 | |
101 | processors | |
102 | @item many math functions | |
103 | @item the character conversion functions (@code{iconv}) | |
104 | @item the @code{ftw} and @code{nftw} functions | |
105 | @item the floating-point printing function used by @code{printf} and friends | |
106 | and the floating-point reading function used by @code{scanf}, | |
107 | @code{strtod} and friends | |
108 | @item the @code{catgets} support and the entire suite of multi-byte | |
109 | and wide-character support functions (@file{wctype.h}, @file{wchar.h}, etc.). | |
110 | @item versioning of objects on the symbol level | |
111 | @end itemize | |
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113 | @item |
114 | Richard Earnshaw for continued support and fixes to the various ARM | |
115 | machine files. | |
116 | ||
3c20b9b6 | 117 | @item |
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118 | Paul Eggert for the @code{mktime} function and for his direction as |
119 | part of @theglibc{} steering committee. | |
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121 | @item |
122 | Steve Ellcey for various fixes. | |
123 | ||
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125 | Mike FABIAN for automating Unicode updates, for updating the locale data |
126 | for ISO 14651, for updating the library Unicode support, and for various | |
127 | locale updates and fixes. | |
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129 | @item |
130 | Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho for adding a new class of installed | |
131 | headers for low-level platform-specific functionality and one such for | |
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3c20b9b6 | 134 | @item |
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135 | Mike Frysinger for his maintaining of the IA64 architecture and for |
136 | testing and bug fixing. | |
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138 | @item |
139 | Martin Galvan for contributing gdb pretty printer support to glibc and adding | |
140 | an initial set of pretty printers for structures in the POSIX Threads library. | |
141 | ||
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841785ba | 143 | Michael Glad for the passphrase-hashing function @code{crypt} and related |
d8e272ab | 144 | functions. |
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145 | |
146 | @item | |
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147 | Wolfram Gloger for contributing the memory allocation functions |
148 | functions @code{malloc}, @code{realloc} and @code{free} and related | |
149 | code. | |
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151 | @item |
152 | Gabriel F. T. Gomes for his improvements for Linux on PowerPC and for | |
153 | implementing the IEEE 128-bit floating point type for PowerPC. | |
154 | ||
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156 | Torbj@"orn Granlund for fast implementations of many of the string |
157 | functions (@code{memcpy}, @code{strlen}, etc.). | |
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158 | |
159 | @item | |
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160 | Michael J. Haertel for writing the merge sort function @code{qsort} |
161 | and malloc checking functions like @code{mcheck}. | |
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162 | |
163 | @item | |
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164 | Bruno Haible for his improvements to the @code{iconv} and locale |
165 | implementations. | |
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166 | |
167 | @item | |
d8e272ab | 168 | Richard Henderson for the port to Linux on Alpha |
c10c5267 | 169 | (@code{alpha-@var{anything}-linux}) and software floating-point support. |
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171 | @item |
172 | David Holsgrove for the port to Linux on MicroBlaze. | |
173 | ||
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174 | @item |
175 | Leonhard Holz for various fixes. | |
176 | ||
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d8e272ab | 178 | Daniel Jacobowitz for various fixes and enhancements. |
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179 | |
180 | @item | |
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181 | Andreas Jaeger for the port to Linux on x86-64 |
182 | (@code{x86_64-@var{anything}-linux} and his work on Linux for MIPS | |
183 | (@code{mips-@var{anything}-linux}), implementing the @file{ldconfig} | |
184 | program, providing a test suite for the math library and for his | |
185 | direction as part of @theglibc{} steering committee. | |
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186 | |
187 | @item | |
d8e272ab | 188 | Aurelien Jarno for various fixes. |
3c20b9b6 | 189 | |
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ef8659ea | 191 | Rical Jasan for contributing various fixes in @theglibc{} manual. |
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194 | Jakub Jelinek for implementing a number of checking functions, |
195 | software floating-point support and for | |
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196 | his direction as part of @theglibc{} steering committee. |
197 | ||
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198 | @item |
199 | Simon Josefsson for the @code{libidn} add-on. | |
200 | ||
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201 | @item |
202 | Geoffrey Keating for the port to Linux on PowerPC | |
203 | (@code{powerpc-@var{anything}-linux}). | |
204 | ||
205 | @item | |
206 | Brendan Kehoe for contributing the port to the MIPS DECStation running | |
207 | Ultrix 4 (@code{mips-dec-ultrix4}) and the port to the DEC Alpha | |
208 | running OSF/1 (@code{alpha-dec-osf1}). | |
209 | ||
210 | @item | |
be208619 | 211 | Mark Kettenis for implementing the @code{utmpx} interface and a utmp |
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212 | daemon, and for a Hesiod NSS module. |
213 | ||
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214 | @item |
215 | Andi Kleen for implementing pthreads lock elision with TSX. | |
216 | ||
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217 | @item |
218 | Kazumoto Kojima for the port of the Mach and Hurd code to the MIPS | |
219 | architecture (@code{mips-@var{anything}-gnu}) and for his work on the | |
220 | SH architecture. | |
221 | ||
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222 | @item |
223 | Maxim Kuvyrkov for various fixes. | |
224 | ||
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225 | @item |
226 | Andreas Krebbel for his work on Linux for s390 and s390x. | |
227 | ||
228 | @item | |
229 | Thorsten Kukuk for providing an implementation for NIS (YP) and NIS+, | |
230 | securelevel 0, 1 and 2 and for the implementation for a caching daemon | |
231 | for NSS (@file{nscd}). | |
232 | ||
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233 | @item |
234 | Akhilesh Kumar for various fixes to locales. | |
235 | ||
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236 | @item |
237 | Jeff Law for various fixes. | |
238 | ||
239 | @item | |
240 | Doug Lea for contributing the memory allocation functions | |
be208619 | 241 | @code{malloc}, @code{realloc} and @code{free} and related |
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242 | code. |
243 | ||
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244 | @item |
245 | Chris Leonard for various fixes and enhancements to localedata. | |
246 | ||
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247 | @item |
248 | Ilya Leoshkevich for various fixes. | |
249 | ||
250 | @item | |
251 | Dmitry V. Levin for various fixes. | |
252 | ||
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253 | @item |
254 | Stefan Liebler for various fixes. | |
255 | ||
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256 | @item |
257 | Hongjiu Lu for providing the support for a Linux 32-bit runtime | |
258 | environment under x86-64 (x32), for porting to Linux on IA64, for | |
bc38c906 | 259 | improved string functions, a framework for testing IFUNC |
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260 | implementations, for implementing Intel Control-Flow Enforcement |
261 | Technology, and many bug fixes. | |
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264 | Rafal Luzynski for contributing support for two grammatical forms of month |
265 | names, and for various fixes to locales. | |
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267 | @item |
268 | Luis Machado for optimized functions on PowerPC. | |
269 | ||
270 | @item | |
271 | David J. MacKenzie for his contribution to the @code{getopt} | |
272 | function and writing the @file{tar.h} header. | |
273 | ||
274 | @item | |
275 | Greg McGary for adding runtime support for bounds checking. | |
276 | ||
277 | @item | |
278 | Roland McGrath for writing most of @theglibc{} originally, for his | |
279 | work on the Hurd port, his direction as part of @theglibc{} steering | |
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280 | committee and as FSF Project Steward for @theglibc{}, and for many bug |
281 | fixes and reviewing of contributions. | |
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283 | @item |
284 | Allan McRae for various fixes. | |
285 | ||
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286 | @item |
287 | Jason Merrill for the port to the Sequent Symmetry running Dynix | |
288 | version 3 (@code{i386-sequent-bsd}). | |
289 | ||
290 | @item | |
291 | Chris Metcalf for the port to Linux/Tile | |
292 | (@code{tilegx-@var{anything}-linux} and | |
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293 | @code{tilepro-@var{anything}-linux}) and support for the generic Linux |
294 | kernel syscall interface used by several newer ports. | |
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296 | @item |
297 | Jim Meyering for various fixes. | |
298 | ||
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299 | @item |
300 | David Miller for contributing the port to Linux/Sparc | |
301 | (@code{sparc*-@var{anything}-linux}). | |
302 | ||
303 | @item | |
304 | Alan Modra for his improvements for Linux on PowerPC. | |
305 | ||
306 | @item | |
307 | David Mosberger-Tang for contributing the port to Linux/Alpha | |
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308 | (@code{alpha-@var{anything}-linux}). |
309 | ||
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310 | @item |
311 | Wainer dos Santos Moschetta for various fixes to powerpc. | |
312 | ||
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314 | Stephen Moshier for implementing some 128-bit long double format math |
315 | functions. | |
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316 | |
317 | @item | |
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318 | Stephen Munroe for his port to Linux on PowerPC64 |
319 | (@code{powerpc64-@var{anything}-linux}) and for adding optimized | |
320 | implementations for PowerPC. | |
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323 | Paul E. Murphy for various fixes on PowerPC and for implementing the IEEE |
324 | 128-bit floating point type for PowerPC. | |
1900fab9 | 325 | |
3c20b9b6 | 326 | @item |
bc38c906 | 327 | Joseph S. Myers for numerous bug fixes for the libm functions, for |
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328 | his maintainership of the ARM and MIPS architectures and the math |
329 | component, improving cross-compilation and cross-testing of | |
330 | @theglibc{}, expanded coverage of conformtest, merging the ports/ | |
331 | subdirectory into the @glibcadj{} main repository and his direction as | |
332 | FSF Project Steward for @theglibc{}. | |
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334 | @item |
335 | Marko Myllynen for various fixes. | |
336 | ||
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337 | @item |
338 | Szabolcs Nagy for various fixes. | |
339 | ||
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341 | Will Newton for contributing some optimized string functions and pointer |
342 | encryption support for ARM and various fixes. | |
db24e684 | 343 | |
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345 | Carlos O'Donell for his maintainership of the HPPA architecture, for |
346 | maintaining @theglibc{} web pages and wiki, for his direction as FSF | |
347 | Project Steward for @theglibc{} and various bug fixes. | |
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348 | |
349 | @item | |
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350 | Alexandre Oliva for adding TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and |
351 | x86-64, for the am33 port, for completing the MIPS n64/n32/o32 multilib | |
68159946 | 352 | port, for thread-safety, async-signal safety and async-cancellation |
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353 | safety documentation in the manual, for his direction as FSF Project |
354 | Maintainer and for various fixes. | |
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355 | |
356 | @item | |
d8e272ab | 357 | Paul Pluzhnikov for various fixes. |
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358 | |
359 | @item | |
d8e272ab | 360 | Marek Polacek for various fixes. |
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361 | |
362 | @item | |
1900fab9 | 363 | Siddhesh Poyarekar for various fixes, an implementation of a framework for |
43ce02c6 | 364 | performance benchmarking of functions and implementing the tunables |
1900fab9 | 365 | infrastructure. |
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367 | @item |
368 | Tom Quinn for contributing the startup code to support SunOS shared | |
369 | libraries and the port to SGI machines running Irix 4 | |
370 | (@code{mips-sgi-irix4}). | |
371 | ||
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373 | Torvald Riegel for the implementation of new algorithms for semaphores, |
374 | pthread_rwlock and condition variables. | |
375 | ||
376 | @item | |
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377 | Maciej W. Rozycki for MIPS fixes, support for ABSOLUTE symbols, |
378 | and various fixes. | |
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380 | @item |
381 | Leonardo Sandoval for various fixes. | |
382 | ||
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d8e272ab | 384 | Pravin Satpute for writing sorting rules for some Indian languages. |
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386 | @item |
387 | Douglas C. Schmidt for writing the quick sort function used as a | |
388 | fallback by @code{qsort}. | |
389 | ||
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390 | @item |
391 | Will Schmidt for optimized string functions on PowerPC. | |
392 | ||
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393 | @item |
394 | Andreas Schwab for the port to Linux/m68k | |
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395 | (@code{m68k-@var{anything}-linux}), for his direction as part of |
396 | @theglibc{} steering committee, and for various bug fixes. | |
4648c381 | 397 | |
3c20b9b6 | 398 | @item |
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399 | Martin Schwidefsky for porting to Linux on s390 |
400 | (@code{s390-@var{anything}-linux}) and s390x | |
401 | (@code{s390x-@var{anything}-linux}). | |
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403 | @item |
404 | Thomas Schwinge for his contribution to Hurd and the SH architecture. | |
405 | ||
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406 | @item |
407 | Martin Sebor for various fixes. | |
408 | ||
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409 | @item |
410 | Andrew Senkevich for contributing vector math function implementations for x86. | |
411 | ||
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d8e272ab | 413 | Carlos Eduardo Seo for optimized functions on PowerPC. |
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415 | @item |
416 | Arjun Shankar for testing and bug fixing. | |
417 | ||
bc38c906 | 418 | @item |
cedb2a90 | 419 | Marcus Shawcroft for contributing the AArch64 port. |
bc38c906 | 420 | |
3c20b9b6 | 421 | @item |
d8e272ab | 422 | Franz Sirl for various fixes. |
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423 | |
424 | @item | |
d8e272ab | 425 | Jes Sorensen for porting to Linux on IA64 (@code{ia64-@var{anything}-linux}). |
3c20b9b6 | 426 | |
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428 | Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan for various fixes and optimizations on PowerPC |
429 | and for implementing the IEEE 128-bit floating point type for PowerPC. | |
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3c20b9b6 | 431 | @item |
d8e272ab | 432 | Richard Stallman for his contribution to the @code{getopt} function. |
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434 | @item |
435 | Alfred M. Szmidt for various fixes. | |
436 | ||
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437 | @item |
438 | Chung-Lin Tang for contributing the Nios II port. | |
439 | ||
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440 | @item |
441 | Ian Lance Taylor for contributing the port to the MIPS DECStation | |
442 | running Ultrix 4 (@code{mips-dec-ultrix4}). | |
443 | ||
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444 | @item |
445 | Samuel Thibault for improving the Hurd port. | |
446 | ||
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447 | @item |
448 | Pino Toscano for various fixes. | |
449 | ||
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450 | @item |
451 | Matt Turner for various fixes to the Alpha port. | |
452 | ||
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453 | @item |
454 | Tim Waugh for the implementation of the POSIX.2 @code{wordexp} | |
455 | function family. | |
456 | ||
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457 | @item |
458 | Ulrich Weigand for various fixes to the PowerPC64 and Arm ports. | |
459 | ||
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460 | @item |
461 | Florian Weimer for his maintainership of the network component, for handling | |
462 | of security issues, and for various fixes. | |
463 | ||
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464 | @item |
465 | Zack Weinberg for the @code{explicit_bzero} implementation and for various | |
466 | fixes. | |
467 | ||
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468 | @item |
469 | Mark Wielaard for various fixes. | |
470 | ||
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471 | @item |
472 | Eric Youngdale for implementing versioning of objects on the symbol level. | |
473 | ||
474 | @item | |
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475 | Adhemerval Zanella for optimized functions on PowerPC, ISO C threads support |
476 | and various fixes. | |
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477 | |
478 | @end itemize | |
479 | ||
480 | Some code in @theglibc{} comes from other projects and might be under | |
481 | a different license: | |
482 | ||
483 | @itemize @bullet | |
484 | @item | |
485 | The timezone support code is derived from the public-domain timezone | |
486 | package by Arthur David Olson and his many contributors. | |
487 | ||
488 | @item | |
489 | Some of the support code for Mach is taken from Mach 3.0 by CMU; | |
be208619 | 490 | the file @file{if_ppp.h} is also copyright by CMU, but under a different license; |
d8e272ab | 491 | see the file @file{LICENSES} for the text of the licenses. |
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492 | |
493 | @item | |
494 | The random number generation functions @code{random}, @code{srandom}, | |
495 | @code{setstate} and @code{initstate}, which are also the basis for the | |
496 | @code{rand} and @code{srand} functions, were written by Earl T. Cohen | |
497 | for the University of California at Berkeley and are copyrighted by the | |
498 | Regents of the University of California. They have undergone minor | |
1f77f049 | 499 | changes to fit into @theglibc{} and to fit the @w{ISO C} standard, |
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500 | but the functional code is Berkeley's.@refill |
501 | ||
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502 | @item |
503 | The Internet-related code (most of the @file{inet} subdirectory) and | |
504 | several other miscellaneous functions and header files have been | |
505 | included from 4.4 BSD with little or no modification. The copying | |
506 | permission notice for this code can be found in the file @file{LICENSES} | |
507 | in the source distribution. | |
508 | ||
509 | @item | |
510 | The @code{getaddrinfo} and @code{getnameinfo} functions and supporting | |
511 | code were written by Craig Metz; see the file @file{LICENSES} for | |
512 | details on their licensing. | |
513 | ||
3c20b9b6 | 514 | @item |
c10c5267 | 515 | The DNS resolver code is taken directly from BIND 8.2.3-T5B, which |
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516 | includes copyrighted code from UC Berkeley and from Digital Equipment |
517 | Corporation. See the file @file{LICENSES} for the text of the DEC license. | |
518 | ||
519 | @item | |
520 | The code to support Sun RPC is taken verbatim from Sun's | |
521 | @w{@sc{rpcsrc-4.0}} distribution; see the file @file{LICENSES} for the | |
522 | text of the license. | |
3c20b9b6 | 523 | |
c6c6dd48 | 524 | @item |
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525 | The math functions are taken from @code{fdlibm-5.1} by Sun |
526 | Microsystems, as modified by J.T. Conklin, Ian Lance Taylor, | |
527 | Ulrich Drepper, Andreas Schwab, and Roland McGrath. | |
528 | ||
529 | @item | |
530 | Many of the IEEE 64-bit double precision math functions | |
531 | (in the @file{sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64} subdirectory) come | |
532 | from the IBM Accurate Mathematical Library, contributed by IBM. | |
3c20b9b6 | 533 | |
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534 | @item |
535 | Many of the IA64 math functions are taken from a collection of | |
536 | ``Highly Optimized Mathematical Functions for Itanium'' that Intel | |
537 | makes available under a free license; see the file @file{LICENSES} for | |
538 | details. | |
3c20b9b6 | 539 | |
3c20b9b6 | 540 | @end itemize |