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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 | |
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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 | Palmer Dabbelt for contributing the port to Linux/RISC-V. | |
83 | ||
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87 | @item |
88 | Wilco Dijkstra for various fixes. | |
89 | ||
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ef48b196 | 91 | Liubov Dmitrieva for optimized string and math functions on x86-64 and |
06c5abbd | 92 | x86. |
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93 | |
94 | @item | |
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95 | Ulrich Drepper for his many contributions in almost all parts of |
96 | @theglibc{}, including: | |
97 | @itemize @bullet | |
136fa185 | 98 | @item writing most of the POSIX Threads Library originally. |
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99 | @item internationalization support, including the @code{locale} and |
100 | @code{localedef} utilities. | |
101 | @item Linux i386/ELF support | |
102 | @item the @code{hsearch} and @code{drand48} families of functions, | |
103 | reentrant @samp{@dots{}@code{_r}} versions of the @code{random} | |
104 | family; System V shared memory and IPC support code | |
105 | @item several highly-optimized string functions for i@var{x}86 | |
106 | processors | |
107 | @item many math functions | |
108 | @item the character conversion functions (@code{iconv}) | |
109 | @item the @code{ftw} and @code{nftw} functions | |
110 | @item the floating-point printing function used by @code{printf} and friends | |
111 | and the floating-point reading function used by @code{scanf}, | |
112 | @code{strtod} and friends | |
113 | @item the @code{catgets} support and the entire suite of multi-byte | |
114 | and wide-character support functions (@file{wctype.h}, @file{wchar.h}, etc.). | |
115 | @item versioning of objects on the symbol level | |
116 | @end itemize | |
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118 | @item |
119 | Richard Earnshaw for continued support and fixes to the various ARM | |
120 | machine files. | |
121 | ||
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123 | Paul Eggert for the @code{mktime} function and for his direction as |
124 | part of @theglibc{} steering committee. | |
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126 | @item |
127 | Steve Ellcey for various fixes. | |
128 | ||
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130 | Mike FABIAN for automating Unicode updates, for updating the locale data |
131 | for ISO 14651, for updating the library Unicode support, and for various | |
132 | locale updates and fixes. | |
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134 | @item |
135 | Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho for adding a new class of installed | |
136 | headers for low-level platform-specific functionality and one such for | |
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139 | @item |
140 | Olaf Flebbe and Ralf B@"achle for contributing | |
141 | @file{sysdeps/mips/fpu_control.h}. | |
142 | ||
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144 | Mike Frysinger for his maintaining of the IA64 architecture and for |
145 | testing and bug fixing. | |
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147 | @item |
148 | Martin Galvan for contributing gdb pretty printer support to glibc and adding | |
149 | an initial set of pretty printers for structures in the POSIX Threads library. | |
150 | ||
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841785ba | 152 | Michael Glad for the passphrase-hashing function @code{crypt} and related |
d8e272ab | 153 | functions. |
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154 | |
155 | @item | |
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156 | Wolfram Gloger for contributing the memory allocation functions |
157 | functions @code{malloc}, @code{realloc} and @code{free} and related | |
158 | code. | |
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160 | @item |
161 | Gabriel F. T. Gomes for his improvements for Linux on PowerPC and for | |
162 | implementing the IEEE 128-bit floating point type for PowerPC. | |
163 | ||
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165 | Torbj@"orn Granlund for fast implementations of many of the string |
166 | functions (@code{memcpy}, @code{strlen}, etc.). | |
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167 | |
168 | @item | |
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169 | Michael J. Haertel for writing the merge sort function @code{qsort} |
170 | and malloc checking functions like @code{mcheck}. | |
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171 | |
172 | @item | |
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173 | Bruno Haible for his improvements to the @code{iconv} and locale |
174 | implementations. | |
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175 | |
176 | @item | |
d8e272ab | 177 | Richard Henderson for the port to Linux on Alpha |
c10c5267 | 178 | (@code{alpha-@var{anything}-linux}) and software floating-point support. |
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180 | @item |
181 | David Holsgrove for the port to Linux on MicroBlaze. | |
182 | ||
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183 | @item |
184 | Leonhard Holz for various fixes. | |
185 | ||
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d8e272ab | 187 | Daniel Jacobowitz for various fixes and enhancements. |
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188 | |
189 | @item | |
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190 | Andreas Jaeger for the port to Linux on x86-64 |
191 | (@code{x86_64-@var{anything}-linux} and his work on Linux for MIPS | |
192 | (@code{mips-@var{anything}-linux}), implementing the @file{ldconfig} | |
193 | program, providing a test suite for the math library and for his | |
194 | direction as part of @theglibc{} steering committee. | |
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195 | |
196 | @item | |
d8e272ab | 197 | Aurelien Jarno for various fixes. |
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ef8659ea | 200 | Rical Jasan for contributing various fixes in @theglibc{} manual. |
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3c20b9b6 | 202 | @item |
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203 | Jakub Jelinek for implementing a number of checking functions, |
204 | software floating-point support and for | |
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205 | his direction as part of @theglibc{} steering committee. |
206 | ||
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207 | @item |
208 | Simon Josefsson for the @code{libidn} add-on. | |
209 | ||
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210 | @item |
211 | Geoffrey Keating for the port to Linux on PowerPC | |
212 | (@code{powerpc-@var{anything}-linux}). | |
213 | ||
214 | @item | |
215 | Brendan Kehoe for contributing the port to the MIPS DECStation running | |
216 | Ultrix 4 (@code{mips-dec-ultrix4}) and the port to the DEC Alpha | |
217 | running OSF/1 (@code{alpha-dec-osf1}). | |
218 | ||
219 | @item | |
be208619 | 220 | Mark Kettenis for implementing the @code{utmpx} interface and a utmp |
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221 | daemon, and for a Hesiod NSS module. |
222 | ||
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223 | @item |
224 | Andi Kleen for implementing pthreads lock elision with TSX. | |
225 | ||
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226 | @item |
227 | Kazumoto Kojima for the port of the Mach and Hurd code to the MIPS | |
228 | architecture (@code{mips-@var{anything}-gnu}) and for his work on the | |
229 | SH architecture. | |
230 | ||
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231 | @item |
232 | Maxim Kuvyrkov for various fixes. | |
233 | ||
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234 | @item |
235 | Andreas Krebbel for his work on Linux for s390 and s390x. | |
236 | ||
237 | @item | |
238 | Thorsten Kukuk for providing an implementation for NIS (YP) and NIS+, | |
239 | securelevel 0, 1 and 2 and for the implementation for a caching daemon | |
240 | for NSS (@file{nscd}). | |
241 | ||
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242 | @item |
243 | Akhilesh Kumar for various fixes to locales. | |
244 | ||
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245 | @item |
246 | Jeff Law for various fixes. | |
247 | ||
248 | @item | |
249 | Doug Lea for contributing the memory allocation functions | |
be208619 | 250 | @code{malloc}, @code{realloc} and @code{free} and related |
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251 | code. |
252 | ||
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253 | @item |
254 | Chris Leonard for various fixes and enhancements to localedata. | |
255 | ||
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256 | @item |
257 | Ilya Leoshkevich for various fixes. | |
258 | ||
259 | @item | |
260 | Dmitry V. Levin for various fixes. | |
261 | ||
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262 | @item |
263 | Stefan Liebler for various fixes. | |
264 | ||
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265 | @item |
266 | Hongjiu Lu for providing the support for a Linux 32-bit runtime | |
267 | environment under x86-64 (x32), for porting to Linux on IA64, for | |
bc38c906 | 268 | improved string functions, a framework for testing IFUNC |
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269 | implementations, for implementing Intel Control-Flow Enforcement |
270 | Technology, and many bug fixes. | |
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273 | Rafa@l{} Lu@dotaccent{z}y@'nski |
274 | for contributing support for two grammatical forms of month | |
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277 | @item |
278 | Luis Machado for optimized functions on PowerPC. | |
279 | ||
280 | @item | |
281 | David J. MacKenzie for his contribution to the @code{getopt} | |
282 | function and writing the @file{tar.h} header. | |
283 | ||
284 | @item | |
285 | Greg McGary for adding runtime support for bounds checking. | |
286 | ||
287 | @item | |
288 | Roland McGrath for writing most of @theglibc{} originally, for his | |
289 | work on the Hurd port, his direction as part of @theglibc{} steering | |
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290 | committee and as FSF Project Steward for @theglibc{}, and for many bug |
291 | fixes and reviewing of contributions. | |
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293 | @item |
294 | Allan McRae for various fixes. | |
295 | ||
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296 | @item |
297 | Jason Merrill for the port to the Sequent Symmetry running Dynix | |
298 | version 3 (@code{i386-sequent-bsd}). | |
299 | ||
300 | @item | |
301 | Chris Metcalf for the port to Linux/Tile | |
302 | (@code{tilegx-@var{anything}-linux} and | |
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303 | @code{tilepro-@var{anything}-linux}) and support for the generic Linux |
304 | kernel syscall interface used by several newer ports. | |
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306 | @item |
307 | Jim Meyering for various fixes. | |
308 | ||
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309 | @item |
310 | David Miller for contributing the port to Linux/Sparc | |
311 | (@code{sparc*-@var{anything}-linux}). | |
312 | ||
313 | @item | |
314 | Alan Modra for his improvements for Linux on PowerPC. | |
315 | ||
316 | @item | |
317 | David Mosberger-Tang for contributing the port to Linux/Alpha | |
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318 | (@code{alpha-@var{anything}-linux}). |
319 | ||
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320 | @item |
321 | Wainer dos Santos Moschetta for various fixes to powerpc. | |
322 | ||
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324 | Stephen Moshier for implementing some 128-bit long double format math |
325 | functions. | |
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326 | |
327 | @item | |
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328 | Stephen Munroe for his port to Linux on PowerPC64 |
329 | (@code{powerpc64-@var{anything}-linux}) and for adding optimized | |
330 | implementations for PowerPC. | |
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333 | Paul E. Murphy for various fixes on PowerPC and for implementing the IEEE |
334 | 128-bit floating point type for PowerPC. | |
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3c20b9b6 | 336 | @item |
bc38c906 | 337 | Joseph S. Myers for numerous bug fixes for the libm functions, for |
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338 | his maintainership of the ARM and MIPS architectures and the math |
339 | component, improving cross-compilation and cross-testing of | |
340 | @theglibc{}, expanded coverage of conformtest, merging the ports/ | |
341 | subdirectory into the @glibcadj{} main repository and his direction as | |
342 | FSF Project Steward for @theglibc{}. | |
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344 | @item |
345 | Marko Myllynen for various fixes. | |
346 | ||
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347 | @item |
348 | Szabolcs Nagy for various fixes. | |
349 | ||
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351 | Will Newton for contributing some optimized string functions and pointer |
352 | encryption support for ARM and various fixes. | |
db24e684 | 353 | |
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355 | Carlos O'Donell for his maintainership of the HPPA architecture, for |
356 | maintaining @theglibc{} web pages and wiki, for his direction as FSF | |
357 | Project Steward for @theglibc{} and various bug fixes. | |
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358 | |
359 | @item | |
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360 | Alexandre Oliva for adding TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and |
361 | x86-64, for the am33 port, for completing the MIPS n64/n32/o32 multilib | |
68159946 | 362 | port, for thread-safety, async-signal safety and async-cancellation |
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363 | safety documentation in the manual, for his direction as FSF Project |
364 | Maintainer and for various fixes. | |
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365 | |
366 | @item | |
d8e272ab | 367 | Paul Pluzhnikov for various fixes. |
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368 | |
369 | @item | |
d8e272ab | 370 | Marek Polacek for various fixes. |
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371 | |
372 | @item | |
1900fab9 | 373 | Siddhesh Poyarekar for various fixes, an implementation of a framework for |
43ce02c6 | 374 | performance benchmarking of functions and implementing the tunables |
1900fab9 | 375 | infrastructure. |
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377 | @item |
378 | Tom Quinn for contributing the startup code to support SunOS shared | |
379 | libraries and the port to SGI machines running Irix 4 | |
380 | (@code{mips-sgi-irix4}). | |
381 | ||
04cb913d | 382 | @item |
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383 | Torvald Riegel for the implementation of new algorithms for semaphores, |
384 | pthread_rwlock and condition variables. | |
385 | ||
386 | @item | |
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387 | Maciej W. Rozycki for MIPS fixes, support for ABSOLUTE symbols, |
388 | and various fixes. | |
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390 | @item |
391 | Leonardo Sandoval for various fixes. | |
392 | ||
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d8e272ab | 394 | Pravin Satpute for writing sorting rules for some Indian languages. |
3c20b9b6 | 395 | |
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396 | @item |
397 | Douglas C. Schmidt for writing the quick sort function used as a | |
398 | fallback by @code{qsort}. | |
399 | ||
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400 | @item |
401 | Will Schmidt for optimized string functions on PowerPC. | |
402 | ||
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403 | @item |
404 | Andreas Schwab for the port to Linux/m68k | |
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405 | (@code{m68k-@var{anything}-linux}), for his direction as part of |
406 | @theglibc{} steering committee, and for various bug fixes. | |
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3c20b9b6 | 408 | @item |
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409 | Martin Schwidefsky for porting to Linux on s390 |
410 | (@code{s390-@var{anything}-linux}) and s390x | |
411 | (@code{s390x-@var{anything}-linux}). | |
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413 | @item |
414 | Thomas Schwinge for his contribution to Hurd and the SH architecture. | |
415 | ||
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416 | @item |
417 | Martin Sebor for various fixes. | |
418 | ||
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419 | @item |
420 | Andrew Senkevich for contributing vector math function implementations for x86. | |
421 | ||
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d8e272ab | 423 | Carlos Eduardo Seo for optimized functions on PowerPC. |
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425 | @item |
426 | Arjun Shankar for testing and bug fixing. | |
427 | ||
bc38c906 | 428 | @item |
cedb2a90 | 429 | Marcus Shawcroft for contributing the AArch64 port. |
bc38c906 | 430 | |
3c20b9b6 | 431 | @item |
d8e272ab | 432 | Franz Sirl for various fixes. |
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433 | |
434 | @item | |
d8e272ab | 435 | Jes Sorensen for porting to Linux on IA64 (@code{ia64-@var{anything}-linux}). |
3c20b9b6 | 436 | |
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438 | Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan for various fixes and optimizations on PowerPC |
439 | and for implementing the IEEE 128-bit floating point type for PowerPC. | |
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d8e272ab | 442 | Richard Stallman for his contribution to the @code{getopt} function. |
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444 | @item |
445 | Alfred M. Szmidt for various fixes. | |
446 | ||
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447 | @item |
448 | Chung-Lin Tang for contributing the Nios II port. | |
449 | ||
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450 | @item |
451 | Ian Lance Taylor for contributing the port to the MIPS DECStation | |
452 | running Ultrix 4 (@code{mips-dec-ultrix4}). | |
453 | ||
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454 | @item |
455 | Samuel Thibault for improving the Hurd port. | |
456 | ||
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457 | @item |
458 | Pino Toscano for various fixes. | |
459 | ||
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460 | @item |
461 | Matt Turner for various fixes to the Alpha port. | |
462 | ||
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463 | @item |
464 | Tim Waugh for the implementation of the POSIX.2 @code{wordexp} | |
465 | function family. | |
466 | ||
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467 | @item |
468 | Ulrich Weigand for various fixes to the PowerPC64 and Arm ports. | |
469 | ||
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470 | @item |
471 | Florian Weimer for his maintainership of the network component, for handling | |
472 | of security issues, and for various fixes. | |
473 | ||
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474 | @item |
475 | Zack Weinberg for the @code{explicit_bzero} implementation and for various | |
476 | fixes. | |
477 | ||
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478 | @item |
479 | Mark Wielaard for various fixes. | |
480 | ||
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481 | @item |
482 | Eric Youngdale for implementing versioning of objects on the symbol level. | |
483 | ||
484 | @item | |
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485 | Adhemerval Zanella for optimized functions on PowerPC, ISO C threads support |
486 | and various fixes. | |
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487 | |
488 | @end itemize | |
489 | ||
490 | Some code in @theglibc{} comes from other projects and might be under | |
491 | a different license: | |
492 | ||
493 | @itemize @bullet | |
494 | @item | |
495 | The timezone support code is derived from the public-domain timezone | |
496 | package by Arthur David Olson and his many contributors. | |
497 | ||
498 | @item | |
499 | Some of the support code for Mach is taken from Mach 3.0 by CMU; | |
be208619 | 500 | the file @file{if_ppp.h} is also copyright by CMU, but under a different license; |
d8e272ab | 501 | see the file @file{LICENSES} for the text of the licenses. |
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502 | |
503 | @item | |
504 | The random number generation functions @code{random}, @code{srandom}, | |
505 | @code{setstate} and @code{initstate}, which are also the basis for the | |
506 | @code{rand} and @code{srand} functions, were written by Earl T. Cohen | |
507 | for the University of California at Berkeley and are copyrighted by the | |
508 | Regents of the University of California. They have undergone minor | |
1f77f049 | 509 | changes to fit into @theglibc{} and to fit the @w{ISO C} standard, |
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510 | but the functional code is Berkeley's.@refill |
511 | ||
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512 | @item |
513 | The Internet-related code (most of the @file{inet} subdirectory) and | |
514 | several other miscellaneous functions and header files have been | |
515 | included from 4.4 BSD with little or no modification. The copying | |
516 | permission notice for this code can be found in the file @file{LICENSES} | |
517 | in the source distribution. | |
518 | ||
519 | @item | |
520 | The @code{getaddrinfo} and @code{getnameinfo} functions and supporting | |
521 | code were written by Craig Metz; see the file @file{LICENSES} for | |
522 | details on their licensing. | |
523 | ||
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c10c5267 | 525 | The DNS resolver code is taken directly from BIND 8.2.3-T5B, which |
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526 | includes copyrighted code from UC Berkeley and from Digital Equipment |
527 | Corporation. See the file @file{LICENSES} for the text of the DEC license. | |
528 | ||
529 | @item | |
530 | The code to support Sun RPC is taken verbatim from Sun's | |
531 | @w{@sc{rpcsrc-4.0}} distribution; see the file @file{LICENSES} for the | |
532 | text of the license. | |
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535 | The math functions are taken from @code{fdlibm-5.1} by Sun |
536 | Microsystems, as modified by J.T. Conklin, Ian Lance Taylor, | |
537 | Ulrich Drepper, Andreas Schwab, and Roland McGrath. | |
538 | ||
539 | @item | |
540 | Many of the IEEE 64-bit double precision math functions | |
541 | (in the @file{sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64} subdirectory) come | |
542 | from the IBM Accurate Mathematical Library, contributed by IBM. | |
3c20b9b6 | 543 | |
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544 | @item |
545 | Many of the IA64 math functions are taken from a collection of | |
546 | ``Highly Optimized Mathematical Functions for Itanium'' that Intel | |
547 | makes available under a free license; see the file @file{LICENSES} for | |
548 | details. | |
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3c20b9b6 | 550 | @end itemize |