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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.
6Without them the project would not have been nearly as successful as
7it has been. Any omissions in this list are accidental. Feel free to
8file a bug in bugzilla if you have been left out or some of your
9contributions are not listed. Please keep this list in alphabetical
10order.
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12@itemize @bullet
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15Nick Alcock for contributing fixes to allow @theglibc{} to be built with the
16stack smashing protector enabled.
17
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19John David Anglin for various fixes to the hppa port.
20
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22Albert ARIBAUD for Y2038 related fixes.
23
3c20b9b6 24@item
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25Ryan S. Arnold for his improvements for Linux on PowerPC and his direction
26as FSF Project Steward for @theglibc{}.
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28@item
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29Miles Bader for writing the @code{argp} argument-parsing package, and the
30@code{argz}/@code{envz} interfaces.
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33Ralf B@"achle for contributing @file{fpu_control.h},
34@file{regdef.h}, @file{sgidefs.h}, @file{sys/asm.h}, and @file{sys/regdef.h}
35under the @file{sysdeps/mips} directory.
36
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d8e272ab 38Jeff Bailey for his maintainership of the HPPA architecture.
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40@item
d8e272ab 41Petr Baudis for bug fixes and testing.
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44Anton Blanchard for various fixes.
45
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47Stephen R. van den Berg for contributing a highly-optimized
48@code{strstr} function.
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e6855a3b 51Ond@v{r}ej B@'ilka for contributing optimized string routines for x64 and various
68159946 52fixes.
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3c20b9b6 54@item
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55Eric Blake for adding O(n) implementations of @code{memmem},
56@code{strstr} and @code{strcasestr}.
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58@item
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59Philip Blundell for the ports to Linux/ARM
60(@code{arm-@var{ANYTHING}-linuxaout}) and ARM standalone
61(@code{arm-@var{ANYTHING}-none}), as well as for parts of the IPv6
62support code.
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64@item
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65Per Bothner for the implementation of the @code{libio} library which
66is used to implement @code{stdio} functions.
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68@item
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69Mark Brown for his direction as part of @theglibc{} steering
70committee.
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d8e272ab 73Thomas Bushnell for his contributions to Hurd.
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76Rogerio Alves Cardoso for various fixes to PowerPC.
77
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79Paul Clarke for optimized functions on PowerPC.
80
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82Mike Crowe for various fixes.
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85Palmer Dabbelt for contributing the port to Linux/RISC-V.
86
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6cca855e 88DJ Delorie for maintenance of Linux/RISC-V, and various fixes.
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91Wilco Dijkstra for various fixes.
92
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ef48b196 94Liubov Dmitrieva for optimized string and math functions on x86-64 and
06c5abbd 95x86.
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97@item
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98Ulrich Drepper for his many contributions in almost all parts of
99@theglibc{}, including:
100@itemize @bullet
136fa185 101@item writing most of the POSIX Threads Library originally.
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102@item internationalization support, including the @code{locale} and
103@code{localedef} utilities.
104@item Linux i386/ELF support
105@item the @code{hsearch} and @code{drand48} families of functions,
106reentrant @samp{@dots{}@code{_r}} versions of the @code{random}
107family; System V shared memory and IPC support code
108@item several highly-optimized string functions for i@var{x}86
109processors
110@item many math functions
111@item the character conversion functions (@code{iconv})
112@item the @code{ftw} and @code{nftw} functions
113@item the floating-point printing function used by @code{printf} and friends
114and the floating-point reading function used by @code{scanf},
115@code{strtod} and friends
116@item the @code{catgets} support and the entire suite of multi-byte
117and wide-character support functions (@file{wctype.h}, @file{wchar.h}, etc.).
118@item versioning of objects on the symbol level
119@end itemize
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122Richard Earnshaw for continued support and fixes to the various ARM
123machine files.
124
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126Paul Eggert for the @code{mktime} function and for his direction as
127part of @theglibc{} steering committee.
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130Steve Ellcey for various fixes.
131
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133Mike FABIAN for automating Unicode updates, for updating the locale data
134for ISO 14651, for updating the library Unicode support, and for various
135locale updates and fixes.
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138Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho for adding a new class of installed
139headers for low-level platform-specific functionality and one such for
1900fab9 140PowerPC and various fixes.
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143Olaf Flebbe and Ralf B@"achle for contributing
144@file{sysdeps/mips/fpu_control.h}.
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147Alistair Francis for Y2038 related fixes.
148
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150Mike Frysinger for his maintaining of the IA64 architecture and for
151testing and bug fixing.
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154Martin Galvan for contributing gdb pretty printer support to glibc and adding
155an initial set of pretty printers for structures in the POSIX Threads library.
156
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841785ba 158Michael Glad for the passphrase-hashing function @code{crypt} and related
d8e272ab 159functions.
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162Wolfram Gloger for contributing the memory allocation functions
163functions @code{malloc}, @code{realloc} and @code{free} and related
164code.
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167Gabriel F. T. Gomes for his improvements for Linux on PowerPC and for
168implementing the IEEE 128-bit floating point type for PowerPC.
169
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171Torbj@"orn Granlund for fast implementations of many of the string
172functions (@code{memcpy}, @code{strlen}, etc.).
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174@item
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175Michael J. Haertel for writing the merge sort function @code{qsort}
176and malloc checking functions like @code{mcheck}.
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179Bruno Haible for his improvements to the @code{iconv} and locale
180implementations.
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183Mao Han for the C-SKY port.
184
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d8e272ab 186Richard Henderson for the port to Linux on Alpha
c10c5267 187(@code{alpha-@var{anything}-linux}) and software floating-point support.
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190David Holsgrove for the port to Linux on MicroBlaze.
191
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193Leonhard Holz for various fixes.
194
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d8e272ab 196Daniel Jacobowitz for various fixes and enhancements.
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199Andreas Jaeger for the port to Linux on x86-64
200(@code{x86_64-@var{anything}-linux} and his work on Linux for MIPS
201(@code{mips-@var{anything}-linux}), implementing the @file{ldconfig}
202program, providing a test suite for the math library and for his
203direction as part of @theglibc{} steering committee.
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d8e272ab 206Aurelien Jarno for various fixes.
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ef8659ea 209Rical Jasan for contributing various fixes in @theglibc{} manual.
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212Jakub Jelinek for implementing a number of checking functions,
213software floating-point support and for
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214his direction as part of @theglibc{} steering committee.
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216@item
217Simon Josefsson for the @code{libidn} add-on.
218
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219@item
220Geoffrey Keating for the port to Linux on PowerPC
221(@code{powerpc-@var{anything}-linux}).
222
223@item
224Brendan Kehoe for contributing the port to the MIPS DECStation running
225Ultrix 4 (@code{mips-dec-ultrix4}) and the port to the DEC Alpha
226running OSF/1 (@code{alpha-dec-osf1}).
227
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be208619 229Mark Kettenis for implementing the @code{utmpx} interface and a utmp
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230daemon, and for a Hesiod NSS module.
231
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233Andi Kleen for implementing pthreads lock elision with TSX.
234
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235@item
236Kazumoto Kojima for the port of the Mach and Hurd code to the MIPS
237architecture (@code{mips-@var{anything}-gnu}) and for his work on the
238SH architecture.
239
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241Maxim Kuvyrkov for various fixes.
242
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244Andreas Krebbel for his work on Linux for s390 and s390x.
245
246@item
247Thorsten Kukuk for providing an implementation for NIS (YP) and NIS+,
248securelevel 0, 1 and 2 and for the implementation for a caching daemon
249for NSS (@file{nscd}).
250
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252Akhilesh Kumar for various fixes to locales.
253
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255Jeff Law for various fixes.
256
257@item
258Doug Lea for contributing the memory allocation functions
be208619 259@code{malloc}, @code{realloc} and @code{free} and related
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260code.
261
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263Chris Leonard for various fixes and enhancements to localedata.
264
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266Ilya Leoshkevich for various fixes.
267
268@item
269Dmitry V. Levin for various fixes.
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272Stefan Liebler for various fixes.
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275Hongjiu Lu for providing the support for a Linux 32-bit runtime
276environment under x86-64 (x32), for porting to Linux on IA64, for
bc38c906 277improved string functions, a framework for testing IFUNC
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278implementations, for implementing Intel Control-Flow Enforcement
279Technology, and many bug fixes.
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282Rafa@l{} Lu@dotaccent{z}y@'nski
283for contributing support for two grammatical forms of month
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287Luis Machado for optimized functions on PowerPC.
288
289@item
290David J. MacKenzie for his contribution to the @code{getopt}
291function and writing the @file{tar.h} header.
292
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294Lukasz Majewski for Y2038 related fixes.
295
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296@item
297Greg McGary for adding runtime support for bounds checking.
298
299@item
300Roland McGrath for writing most of @theglibc{} originally, for his
301work on the Hurd port, his direction as part of @theglibc{} steering
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302committee and as FSF Project Steward for @theglibc{}, and for many bug
303fixes and reviewing of contributions.
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306Allan McRae for various fixes.
307
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308@item
309Jason Merrill for the port to the Sequent Symmetry running Dynix
310version 3 (@code{i386-sequent-bsd}).
311
312@item
313Chris Metcalf for the port to Linux/Tile
314(@code{tilegx-@var{anything}-linux} and
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315@code{tilepro-@var{anything}-linux}) and support for the generic Linux
316kernel syscall interface used by several newer ports.
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319Jim Meyering for various fixes.
320
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321@item
322David Miller for contributing the port to Linux/Sparc
323(@code{sparc*-@var{anything}-linux}).
324
325@item
326Alan Modra for his improvements for Linux on PowerPC.
327
328@item
329David Mosberger-Tang for contributing the port to Linux/Alpha
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333Wainer dos Santos Moschetta for various fixes to powerpc.
334
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336Stephen Moshier for implementing some 128-bit long double format math
337functions.
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340Stephen Munroe for his port to Linux on PowerPC64
341(@code{powerpc64-@var{anything}-linux}) and for adding optimized
342implementations for PowerPC.
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345Paul E. Murphy for various fixes on PowerPC and for implementing the IEEE
346128-bit floating point type for PowerPC.
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bc38c906 349Joseph S. Myers for numerous bug fixes for the libm functions, for
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350his maintainership of the ARM and MIPS architectures and the math
351component, improving cross-compilation and cross-testing of
352@theglibc{}, expanded coverage of conformtest, merging the ports/
353subdirectory into the @glibcadj{} main repository and his direction as
354FSF Project Steward for @theglibc{}.
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357Marko Myllynen for various fixes.
358
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360Szabolcs Nagy for various fixes.
361
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363Will Newton for contributing some optimized string functions and pointer
364encryption support for ARM and various fixes.
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3c20b9b6 366@item
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367Carlos O'Donell for his maintainership of the HPPA architecture, for
368maintaining @theglibc{} web pages and wiki, for his direction as FSF
369Project Steward for @theglibc{} and various bug fixes.
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372Alexandre Oliva for adding TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and
373x86-64, for the am33 port, for completing the MIPS n64/n32/o32 multilib
68159946 374port, for thread-safety, async-signal safety and async-cancellation
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375safety documentation in the manual, for his direction as FSF Project
376Maintainer and for various fixes.
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d8e272ab 379Paul Pluzhnikov for various fixes.
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d8e272ab 382Marek Polacek for various fixes.
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384@item
1900fab9 385Siddhesh Poyarekar for various fixes, an implementation of a framework for
43ce02c6 386performance benchmarking of functions and implementing the tunables
1900fab9 387infrastructure.
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390Tom Quinn for contributing the startup code to support SunOS shared
391libraries and the port to SGI machines running Irix 4
392(@code{mips-sgi-irix4}).
393
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395Torvald Riegel for the implementation of new algorithms for semaphores,
396pthread_rwlock and condition variables.
397
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399Maciej W. Rozycki for MIPS fixes, support for ABSOLUTE symbols,
400and various fixes.
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403Leonardo Sandoval for various fixes.
404
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d8e272ab 406Pravin Satpute for writing sorting rules for some Indian languages.
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409Douglas C. Schmidt for writing the quick sort function used as a
410fallback by @code{qsort}.
411
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413Will Schmidt for optimized string functions on PowerPC.
414
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416Andreas Schwab for the port to Linux/m68k
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418@theglibc{} steering committee, and for various bug fixes.
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3c20b9b6 420@item
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421Martin Schwidefsky for porting to Linux on s390
422(@code{s390-@var{anything}-linux}) and s390x
423(@code{s390x-@var{anything}-linux}).
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426Thomas Schwinge for his contribution to Hurd and the SH architecture.
427
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429Martin Sebor for various fixes.
430
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432Andrew Senkevich for contributing vector math function implementations for x86.
433
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d8e272ab 435Carlos Eduardo Seo for optimized functions on PowerPC.
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438Arjun Shankar for testing and bug fixing.
439
bc38c906 440@item
cedb2a90 441Marcus Shawcroft for contributing the AArch64 port.
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444TAMUKI Shoichi for various fixes.
445
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d8e272ab 447Franz Sirl for various fixes.
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d8e272ab 450Jes Sorensen for porting to Linux on IA64 (@code{ia64-@var{anything}-linux}).
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453Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan for various fixes and optimizations on PowerPC
454and for implementing the IEEE 128-bit floating point type for PowerPC.
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d8e272ab 457Richard Stallman for his contribution to the @code{getopt} function.
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460Alfred M. Szmidt for various fixes.
461
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463Chung-Lin Tang for contributing the Nios II port.
464
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465@item
466Ian Lance Taylor for contributing the port to the MIPS DECStation
467running Ultrix 4 (@code{mips-dec-ultrix4}).
468
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470Samuel Thibault for improving the Hurd port.
471
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473Pino Toscano for various fixes.
474
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476Matt Turner for various fixes to the Alpha port.
477
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478@item
479Tim Waugh for the implementation of the POSIX.2 @code{wordexp}
480function family.
481
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483Ulrich Weigand for various fixes to the PowerPC64 and Arm ports.
484
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486Florian Weimer for his maintainership of the network component, for handling
487of security issues, and for various fixes.
488
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490Zack Weinberg for the @code{explicit_bzero} implementation and for various
491fixes.
492
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494Mark Wielaard for various fixes.
495
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497Eric Youngdale for implementing versioning of objects on the symbol level.
498
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500Adhemerval Zanella for optimized functions on PowerPC, ISO C threads support
501and various fixes.
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504Xuelei Zhang for optimized functions on AArch64.
505
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506@end itemize
507
508Some code in @theglibc{} comes from other projects and might be under
509a different license:
510
511@itemize @bullet
512@item
513The timezone support code is derived from the public-domain timezone
514package by Arthur David Olson and his many contributors.
515
516@item
517Some of the support code for Mach is taken from Mach 3.0 by CMU;
be208619 518the file @file{if_ppp.h} is also copyright by CMU, but under a different license;
d8e272ab 519see the file @file{LICENSES} for the text of the licenses.
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521@item
522The random number generation functions @code{random}, @code{srandom},
523@code{setstate} and @code{initstate}, which are also the basis for the
524@code{rand} and @code{srand} functions, were written by Earl T. Cohen
525for the University of California at Berkeley and are copyrighted by the
526Regents of the University of California. They have undergone minor
1f77f049 527changes to fit into @theglibc{} and to fit the @w{ISO C} standard,
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529
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531The Internet-related code (most of the @file{inet} subdirectory) and
532several other miscellaneous functions and header files have been
533included from 4.4 BSD with little or no modification. The copying
534permission notice for this code can be found in the file @file{LICENSES}
535in the source distribution.
536
537@item
538The @code{getaddrinfo} and @code{getnameinfo} functions and supporting
539code were written by Craig Metz; see the file @file{LICENSES} for
540details on their licensing.
541
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c10c5267 543The DNS resolver code is taken directly from BIND 8.2.3-T5B, which
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544includes copyrighted code from UC Berkeley and from Digital Equipment
545Corporation. See the file @file{LICENSES} for the text of the DEC license.
546
547@item
548The code to support Sun RPC is taken verbatim from Sun's
549@w{@sc{rpcsrc-4.0}} distribution; see the file @file{LICENSES} for the
550text of the license.
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553The math functions are taken from @code{fdlibm-5.1} by Sun
554Microsystems, as modified by J.T. Conklin, Ian Lance Taylor,
555Ulrich Drepper, Andreas Schwab, and Roland McGrath.
556
557@item
558Many of the IEEE 64-bit double precision math functions
559(in the @file{sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64} subdirectory) come
560from the IBM Accurate Mathematical Library, contributed by IBM.
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563Many of the IA64 math functions are taken from a collection of
564``Highly Optimized Mathematical Functions for Itanium'' that Intel
565makes available under a free license; see the file @file{LICENSES} for
566details.
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3c20b9b6 568@end itemize