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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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32 | @item |
33 | Ralf B@"achle for contributing @file{fpu_control.h}, | |
34 | @file{regdef.h}, @file{sgidefs.h}, @file{sys/asm.h}, and @file{sys/regdef.h} | |
35 | under the @file{sysdeps/mips} directory. | |
36 | ||
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d8e272ab | 38 | Jeff Bailey for his maintainership of the HPPA architecture. |
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39 | |
40 | @item | |
d8e272ab | 41 | Petr Baudis for bug fixes and testing. |
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43 | @item |
44 | Anton Blanchard for various fixes. | |
45 | ||
3c20b9b6 | 46 | @item |
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47 | Stephen R. van den Berg for contributing a highly-optimized |
48 | @code{strstr} function. | |
3c20b9b6 | 49 | |
db24e684 | 50 | @item |
e6855a3b | 51 | Ond@v{r}ej B@'ilka for contributing optimized string routines for x64 and various |
68159946 | 52 | fixes. |
db24e684 | 53 | |
3c20b9b6 | 54 | @item |
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55 | Eric Blake for adding O(n) implementations of @code{memmem}, |
56 | @code{strstr} and @code{strcasestr}. | |
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57 | |
58 | @item | |
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59 | Philip 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 | |
62 | support code. | |
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63 | |
64 | @item | |
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65 | Per Bothner for the implementation of the @code{libio} library which |
66 | is used to implement @code{stdio} functions. | |
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67 | |
68 | @item | |
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69 | Mark Brown for his direction as part of @theglibc{} steering |
70 | committee. | |
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71 | |
72 | @item | |
d8e272ab | 73 | Thomas Bushnell for his contributions to Hurd. |
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75 | @item |
76 | Rogerio Alves Cardoso for various fixes to PowerPC. | |
77 | ||
78 | @item | |
79 | Paul Clarke for optimized functions on PowerPC. | |
80 | ||
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81 | @item |
82 | Mike Crowe for various fixes. | |
83 | ||
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84 | @item |
85 | Palmer Dabbelt for contributing the port to Linux/RISC-V. | |
86 | ||
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90 | @item |
91 | Wilco Dijkstra for various fixes. | |
92 | ||
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ef48b196 | 94 | Liubov Dmitrieva for optimized string and math functions on x86-64 and |
06c5abbd | 95 | x86. |
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96 | |
97 | @item | |
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98 | Ulrich 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, | |
106 | reentrant @samp{@dots{}@code{_r}} versions of the @code{random} | |
107 | family; System V shared memory and IPC support code | |
108 | @item several highly-optimized string functions for i@var{x}86 | |
109 | processors | |
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 | |
114 | and 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 | |
117 | and 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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121 | @item |
122 | Richard Earnshaw for continued support and fixes to the various ARM | |
123 | machine files. | |
124 | ||
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126 | Paul Eggert for the @code{mktime} function and for his direction as |
127 | part of @theglibc{} steering committee. | |
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129 | @item |
130 | Steve Ellcey for various fixes. | |
131 | ||
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133 | Mike FABIAN for automating Unicode updates, for updating the locale data |
134 | for ISO 14651, for updating the library Unicode support, and for various | |
135 | locale updates and fixes. | |
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137 | @item |
138 | Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho for adding a new class of installed | |
139 | headers for low-level platform-specific functionality and one such for | |
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142 | @item |
143 | Olaf Flebbe and Ralf B@"achle for contributing | |
144 | @file{sysdeps/mips/fpu_control.h}. | |
145 | ||
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146 | @item |
147 | Alistair Francis for Y2038 related fixes. | |
148 | ||
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150 | Mike Frysinger for his maintaining of the IA64 architecture and for |
151 | testing and bug fixing. | |
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153 | @item |
154 | Martin Galvan for contributing gdb pretty printer support to glibc and adding | |
155 | an initial set of pretty printers for structures in the POSIX Threads library. | |
156 | ||
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841785ba | 158 | Michael Glad for the passphrase-hashing function @code{crypt} and related |
d8e272ab | 159 | functions. |
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160 | |
161 | @item | |
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162 | Wolfram Gloger for contributing the memory allocation functions |
163 | functions @code{malloc}, @code{realloc} and @code{free} and related | |
164 | code. | |
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166 | @item |
167 | Gabriel F. T. Gomes for his improvements for Linux on PowerPC and for | |
168 | implementing the IEEE 128-bit floating point type for PowerPC. | |
169 | ||
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171 | Torbj@"orn Granlund for fast implementations of many of the string |
172 | functions (@code{memcpy}, @code{strlen}, etc.). | |
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173 | |
174 | @item | |
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175 | Michael J. Haertel for writing the merge sort function @code{qsort} |
176 | and malloc checking functions like @code{mcheck}. | |
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177 | |
178 | @item | |
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179 | Bruno Haible for his improvements to the @code{iconv} and locale |
180 | implementations. | |
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182 | @item |
183 | Mao Han for the C-SKY port. | |
184 | ||
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d8e272ab | 186 | Richard Henderson for the port to Linux on Alpha |
c10c5267 | 187 | (@code{alpha-@var{anything}-linux}) and software floating-point support. |
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189 | @item |
190 | David Holsgrove for the port to Linux on MicroBlaze. | |
191 | ||
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192 | @item |
193 | Leonhard Holz for various fixes. | |
194 | ||
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d8e272ab | 196 | Daniel Jacobowitz for various fixes and enhancements. |
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197 | |
198 | @item | |
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199 | Andreas 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} | |
202 | program, providing a test suite for the math library and for his | |
203 | direction as part of @theglibc{} steering committee. | |
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204 | |
205 | @item | |
d8e272ab | 206 | Aurelien Jarno for various fixes. |
3c20b9b6 | 207 | |
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ef8659ea | 209 | Rical Jasan for contributing various fixes in @theglibc{} manual. |
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212 | Jakub Jelinek for implementing a number of checking functions, |
213 | software floating-point support and for | |
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214 | his direction as part of @theglibc{} steering committee. |
215 | ||
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216 | @item |
217 | Simon Josefsson for the @code{libidn} add-on. | |
218 | ||
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219 | @item |
220 | Geoffrey Keating for the port to Linux on PowerPC | |
221 | (@code{powerpc-@var{anything}-linux}). | |
222 | ||
223 | @item | |
224 | Brendan Kehoe for contributing the port to the MIPS DECStation running | |
225 | Ultrix 4 (@code{mips-dec-ultrix4}) and the port to the DEC Alpha | |
226 | running OSF/1 (@code{alpha-dec-osf1}). | |
227 | ||
228 | @item | |
be208619 | 229 | Mark Kettenis for implementing the @code{utmpx} interface and a utmp |
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230 | daemon, and for a Hesiod NSS module. |
231 | ||
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232 | @item |
233 | Andi Kleen for implementing pthreads lock elision with TSX. | |
234 | ||
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235 | @item |
236 | Kazumoto Kojima for the port of the Mach and Hurd code to the MIPS | |
237 | architecture (@code{mips-@var{anything}-gnu}) and for his work on the | |
238 | SH architecture. | |
239 | ||
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240 | @item |
241 | Maxim Kuvyrkov for various fixes. | |
242 | ||
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243 | @item |
244 | Andreas Krebbel for his work on Linux for s390 and s390x. | |
245 | ||
246 | @item | |
247 | Thorsten Kukuk for providing an implementation for NIS (YP) and NIS+, | |
248 | securelevel 0, 1 and 2 and for the implementation for a caching daemon | |
249 | for NSS (@file{nscd}). | |
250 | ||
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251 | @item |
252 | Akhilesh Kumar for various fixes to locales. | |
253 | ||
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254 | @item |
255 | Jeff Law for various fixes. | |
256 | ||
257 | @item | |
258 | Doug Lea for contributing the memory allocation functions | |
be208619 | 259 | @code{malloc}, @code{realloc} and @code{free} and related |
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260 | code. |
261 | ||
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262 | @item |
263 | Chris Leonard for various fixes and enhancements to localedata. | |
264 | ||
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265 | @item |
266 | Ilya Leoshkevich for various fixes. | |
267 | ||
268 | @item | |
269 | Dmitry V. Levin for various fixes. | |
270 | ||
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271 | @item |
272 | Stefan Liebler for various fixes. | |
273 | ||
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274 | @item |
275 | Hongjiu Lu for providing the support for a Linux 32-bit runtime | |
276 | environment under x86-64 (x32), for porting to Linux on IA64, for | |
bc38c906 | 277 | improved string functions, a framework for testing IFUNC |
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278 | implementations, for implementing Intel Control-Flow Enforcement |
279 | Technology, and many bug fixes. | |
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282 | Rafa@l{} Lu@dotaccent{z}y@'nski |
283 | for contributing support for two grammatical forms of month | |
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286 | @item |
287 | Luis Machado for optimized functions on PowerPC. | |
288 | ||
289 | @item | |
290 | David J. MacKenzie for his contribution to the @code{getopt} | |
291 | function and writing the @file{tar.h} header. | |
292 | ||
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293 | @item |
294 | Lukasz Majewski for Y2038 related fixes. | |
295 | ||
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296 | @item |
297 | Greg McGary for adding runtime support for bounds checking. | |
298 | ||
299 | @item | |
300 | Roland McGrath for writing most of @theglibc{} originally, for his | |
301 | work on the Hurd port, his direction as part of @theglibc{} steering | |
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302 | committee and as FSF Project Steward for @theglibc{}, and for many bug |
303 | fixes and reviewing of contributions. | |
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305 | @item |
306 | Allan McRae for various fixes. | |
307 | ||
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308 | @item |
309 | Jason Merrill for the port to the Sequent Symmetry running Dynix | |
310 | version 3 (@code{i386-sequent-bsd}). | |
311 | ||
312 | @item | |
313 | Chris 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 |
316 | kernel syscall interface used by several newer ports. | |
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318 | @item |
319 | Jim Meyering for various fixes. | |
320 | ||
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321 | @item |
322 | David Miller for contributing the port to Linux/Sparc | |
323 | (@code{sparc*-@var{anything}-linux}). | |
324 | ||
325 | @item | |
326 | Alan Modra for his improvements for Linux on PowerPC. | |
327 | ||
328 | @item | |
329 | David Mosberger-Tang for contributing the port to Linux/Alpha | |
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330 | (@code{alpha-@var{anything}-linux}). |
331 | ||
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332 | @item |
333 | Wainer dos Santos Moschetta for various fixes to powerpc. | |
334 | ||
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336 | Stephen Moshier for implementing some 128-bit long double format math |
337 | functions. | |
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338 | |
339 | @item | |
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340 | Stephen Munroe for his port to Linux on PowerPC64 |
341 | (@code{powerpc64-@var{anything}-linux}) and for adding optimized | |
342 | implementations for PowerPC. | |
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345 | Paul E. Murphy for various fixes on PowerPC and for implementing the IEEE |
346 | 128-bit floating point type for PowerPC. | |
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3c20b9b6 | 348 | @item |
bc38c906 | 349 | Joseph S. Myers for numerous bug fixes for the libm functions, for |
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350 | his maintainership of the ARM and MIPS architectures and the math |
351 | component, improving cross-compilation and cross-testing of | |
352 | @theglibc{}, expanded coverage of conformtest, merging the ports/ | |
353 | subdirectory into the @glibcadj{} main repository and his direction as | |
354 | FSF Project Steward for @theglibc{}. | |
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356 | @item |
357 | Marko Myllynen for various fixes. | |
358 | ||
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359 | @item |
360 | Szabolcs Nagy for various fixes. | |
361 | ||
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363 | Will Newton for contributing some optimized string functions and pointer |
364 | encryption support for ARM and various fixes. | |
db24e684 | 365 | |
3c20b9b6 | 366 | @item |
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367 | Carlos O'Donell for his maintainership of the HPPA architecture, for |
368 | maintaining @theglibc{} web pages and wiki, for his direction as FSF | |
369 | Project Steward for @theglibc{} and various bug fixes. | |
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370 | |
371 | @item | |
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372 | Alexandre Oliva for adding TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and |
373 | x86-64, for the am33 port, for completing the MIPS n64/n32/o32 multilib | |
68159946 | 374 | port, for thread-safety, async-signal safety and async-cancellation |
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375 | safety documentation in the manual, for his direction as FSF Project |
376 | Maintainer and for various fixes. | |
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377 | |
378 | @item | |
d8e272ab | 379 | Paul Pluzhnikov for various fixes. |
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380 | |
381 | @item | |
d8e272ab | 382 | Marek Polacek for various fixes. |
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383 | |
384 | @item | |
1900fab9 | 385 | Siddhesh Poyarekar for various fixes, an implementation of a framework for |
43ce02c6 | 386 | performance benchmarking of functions and implementing the tunables |
1900fab9 | 387 | infrastructure. |
3c20b9b6 | 388 | |
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389 | @item |
390 | Tom Quinn for contributing the startup code to support SunOS shared | |
391 | libraries and the port to SGI machines running Irix 4 | |
392 | (@code{mips-sgi-irix4}). | |
393 | ||
04cb913d | 394 | @item |
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395 | Torvald Riegel for the implementation of new algorithms for semaphores, |
396 | pthread_rwlock and condition variables. | |
397 | ||
398 | @item | |
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399 | Maciej W. Rozycki for MIPS fixes, support for ABSOLUTE symbols, |
400 | and various fixes. | |
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402 | @item |
403 | Leonardo Sandoval for various fixes. | |
404 | ||
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d8e272ab | 406 | Pravin Satpute for writing sorting rules for some Indian languages. |
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408 | @item |
409 | Douglas C. Schmidt for writing the quick sort function used as a | |
410 | fallback by @code{qsort}. | |
411 | ||
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412 | @item |
413 | Will Schmidt for optimized string functions on PowerPC. | |
414 | ||
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415 | @item |
416 | Andreas Schwab for the port to Linux/m68k | |
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417 | (@code{m68k-@var{anything}-linux}), for his direction as part of |
418 | @theglibc{} steering committee, and for various bug fixes. | |
4648c381 | 419 | |
3c20b9b6 | 420 | @item |
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421 | Martin 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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425 | @item |
426 | Thomas Schwinge for his contribution to Hurd and the SH architecture. | |
427 | ||
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428 | @item |
429 | Martin Sebor for various fixes. | |
430 | ||
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431 | @item |
432 | Andrew Senkevich for contributing vector math function implementations for x86. | |
433 | ||
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d8e272ab | 435 | Carlos Eduardo Seo for optimized functions on PowerPC. |
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437 | @item |
438 | Arjun Shankar for testing and bug fixing. | |
439 | ||
bc38c906 | 440 | @item |
cedb2a90 | 441 | Marcus Shawcroft for contributing the AArch64 port. |
bc38c906 | 442 | |
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443 | @item |
444 | TAMUKI Shoichi for various fixes. | |
445 | ||
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d8e272ab | 447 | Franz Sirl for various fixes. |
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448 | |
449 | @item | |
d8e272ab | 450 | Jes Sorensen for porting to Linux on IA64 (@code{ia64-@var{anything}-linux}). |
3c20b9b6 | 451 | |
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453 | Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan for various fixes and optimizations on PowerPC |
454 | and for implementing the IEEE 128-bit floating point type for PowerPC. | |
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d8e272ab | 457 | Richard Stallman for his contribution to the @code{getopt} function. |
3c20b9b6 | 458 | |
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459 | @item |
460 | Alfred M. Szmidt for various fixes. | |
461 | ||
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462 | @item |
463 | Chung-Lin Tang for contributing the Nios II port. | |
464 | ||
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465 | @item |
466 | Ian Lance Taylor for contributing the port to the MIPS DECStation | |
467 | running Ultrix 4 (@code{mips-dec-ultrix4}). | |
468 | ||
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469 | @item |
470 | Samuel Thibault for improving the Hurd port. | |
471 | ||
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472 | @item |
473 | Pino Toscano for various fixes. | |
474 | ||
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475 | @item |
476 | Matt Turner for various fixes to the Alpha port. | |
477 | ||
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478 | @item |
479 | Tim Waugh for the implementation of the POSIX.2 @code{wordexp} | |
480 | function family. | |
481 | ||
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482 | @item |
483 | Ulrich Weigand for various fixes to the PowerPC64 and Arm ports. | |
484 | ||
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485 | @item |
486 | Florian Weimer for his maintainership of the network component, for handling | |
487 | of security issues, and for various fixes. | |
488 | ||
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489 | @item |
490 | Zack Weinberg for the @code{explicit_bzero} implementation and for various | |
491 | fixes. | |
492 | ||
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493 | @item |
494 | Mark Wielaard for various fixes. | |
495 | ||
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496 | @item |
497 | Eric Youngdale for implementing versioning of objects on the symbol level. | |
498 | ||
499 | @item | |
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500 | Adhemerval Zanella for optimized functions on PowerPC, ISO C threads support |
501 | and various fixes. | |
d8e272ab | 502 | |
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503 | @item |
504 | Xuelei Zhang for optimized functions on AArch64. | |
505 | ||
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506 | @end itemize |
507 | ||
508 | Some code in @theglibc{} comes from other projects and might be under | |
509 | a different license: | |
510 | ||
511 | @itemize @bullet | |
512 | @item | |
513 | The timezone support code is derived from the public-domain timezone | |
514 | package by Arthur David Olson and his many contributors. | |
515 | ||
516 | @item | |
517 | Some of the support code for Mach is taken from Mach 3.0 by CMU; | |
be208619 | 518 | the file @file{if_ppp.h} is also copyright by CMU, but under a different license; |
d8e272ab | 519 | see the file @file{LICENSES} for the text of the licenses. |
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520 | |
521 | @item | |
522 | The 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 | |
525 | for the University of California at Berkeley and are copyrighted by the | |
526 | Regents of the University of California. They have undergone minor | |
1f77f049 | 527 | changes to fit into @theglibc{} and to fit the @w{ISO C} standard, |
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528 | but the functional code is Berkeley's.@refill |
529 | ||
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530 | @item |
531 | The Internet-related code (most of the @file{inet} subdirectory) and | |
532 | several other miscellaneous functions and header files have been | |
533 | included from 4.4 BSD with little or no modification. The copying | |
534 | permission notice for this code can be found in the file @file{LICENSES} | |
535 | in the source distribution. | |
536 | ||
537 | @item | |
538 | The @code{getaddrinfo} and @code{getnameinfo} functions and supporting | |
539 | code were written by Craig Metz; see the file @file{LICENSES} for | |
540 | details on their licensing. | |
541 | ||
3c20b9b6 | 542 | @item |
c10c5267 | 543 | The DNS resolver code is taken directly from BIND 8.2.3-T5B, which |
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544 | includes copyrighted code from UC Berkeley and from Digital Equipment |
545 | Corporation. See the file @file{LICENSES} for the text of the DEC license. | |
546 | ||
547 | @item | |
548 | The 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 | |
550 | text of the license. | |
3c20b9b6 | 551 | |
c6c6dd48 | 552 | @item |
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553 | The math functions are taken from @code{fdlibm-5.1} by Sun |
554 | Microsystems, as modified by J.T. Conklin, Ian Lance Taylor, | |
555 | Ulrich Drepper, Andreas Schwab, and Roland McGrath. | |
556 | ||
557 | @item | |
558 | Many of the IEEE 64-bit double precision math functions | |
559 | (in the @file{sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64} subdirectory) come | |
560 | from the IBM Accurate Mathematical Library, contributed by IBM. | |
3c20b9b6 | 561 | |
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562 | @item |
563 | Many of the IA64 math functions are taken from a collection of | |
564 | ``Highly Optimized Mathematical Functions for Itanium'' that Intel | |
565 | makes available under a free license; see the file @file{LICENSES} for | |
566 | details. | |
3c20b9b6 | 567 | |
3c20b9b6 | 568 | @end itemize |