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7 @unnumbered Contributors to GCC
10 The GCC project would like to thank its many contributors. Without them the
11 project would not have been nearly as successful as it has been. Any omissions
12 in this list are accidental. Feel free to contact
13 @email{law@@redhat.com} if you have been left out
14 or some of your contributions are not listed. Please keep this list in
17 Some projects operating under the GCC project maintain their own list
18 of contributors, such as
19 @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/libstdc++/,the C++ library}.
24 Analog Devices helped implement the support for complex data types
28 John David Anglin for improvements to libstdc++-v3 and the HP-UX port.
31 James van Artsdalen wrote the code that makes efficient use of
32 the Intel 80387 register stack.
35 Alasdair Baird for various bugfixes.
38 Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end.
41 Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other
42 miscellaneous clean-ups.
45 Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
46 improvements to our infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
47 and Java front end implementations. Initial implementations of
48 cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library
52 Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
55 Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
58 Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
61 Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
64 Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
67 Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
70 Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
73 Craig Burley for leadership of the Fortran effort.
76 Paolo Carlini for his work on libstdc++-v3.
79 John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
80 previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
83 Steve Chamberlain wrote the support for the Hitachi SH and H8 processors
84 and the PicoJava processor.
87 Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
90 Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
93 Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and other random
97 Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing.
100 Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
104 Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
107 Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
110 Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
111 that print a copy of their source.
114 Ulrich Drepper for his work on the C++ runtime libraries, glibc,
115 testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99 support, CFG dumping support, etc.
118 Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
121 David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee,
122 ongoing work with the RS6000/PowerPC port, and help cleaning up Haifa
126 Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
129 Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements.
132 Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
133 own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
136 Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
139 Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
143 Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
146 Peter Gerwinski for various bugfixes and the Pascal front end.
149 Kaveh Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee and
150 amazing work to make @samp{-W -Wall} useful.
153 Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
156 Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
157 multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
158 support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
159 via the steering committee.
162 Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work.
165 Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
168 Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
169 tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
170 the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
171 Intel 386 and 860 support.
174 Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
175 warnings and assorted bugfixes.
178 Andrew Haley for his Java work.
181 Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
184 Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
185 the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
189 Kate Hedstrom for staking the g77 folks with an initial testsuite.
192 Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, and ia32 work, loop
193 opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
194 years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
198 Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
199 the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
202 Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
203 of testing an bugfixing, particularly of our configury code.
206 Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
209 Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
212 Christian Iseli for various bugfixes.
215 Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
218 Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
221 Andreas Jaeger for various fixes to the MIPS port
224 Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
225 as lots of bug fixes and test cases.
228 Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes and for her quality improvement
232 J. Kean Johnston for OpenServer support.
235 Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
236 Kenner's "``toy'' language".
239 Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
242 David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
245 Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
246 and his automatic regression tester.
249 Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with g++.
252 Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
256 Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
257 Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
258 Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
259 instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
260 processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
261 strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
262 code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
263 elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
264 head maintainer of GCC for several years.
267 Mumit Khan for various contributions to the cygwin and mingw32 ports and
268 maintaining binary releases for Windows hosts.
271 Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
274 Mark Klein for PA improvements.
277 Thomas Koenig for various bugfixes.
280 Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
283 Benjamin Kosnik for his g++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
286 Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
290 Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
291 entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
292 handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
293 fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
296 Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
297 with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
300 Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
303 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for improvements to demangler and various c++ fixes.
306 Warren Levy major work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and random
307 work on the Java front end.
310 Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU.
313 Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
316 Weiwen Liu for testing and various bugfixes.
319 Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
323 Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
324 and various C++ improvements including namespace support.
327 H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
328 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
331 Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
334 Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
335 various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
338 Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking
339 improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and
340 direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and
341 implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler.
344 Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
347 Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
348 powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
351 Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
355 David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
356 SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
360 Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
363 Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
364 C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
365 ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.x.
368 Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
371 Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
372 maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
375 Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
376 on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
377 services, ftp services, etc etc.
380 Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
381 way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
385 David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements.
388 Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
389 cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
390 than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
393 Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
396 Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
399 Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
400 C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
403 Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3.
406 NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
410 Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
411 engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
414 Geoff Noer for this work on getting cygwin native builds working.
417 David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
418 FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
422 Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
423 amazing testing work.
426 Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
429 Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to our o32
430 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, etc.
433 Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
436 Alexandre Petit-Bianco for his Java work.
439 Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
442 Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
443 out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
444 taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
447 Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
451 Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
452 cleanups in the compiler.
455 David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
459 Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions and maintenance of libstdc++-v3,
460 including valarray implementation and limits support.
463 Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
467 Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 and the FreeBSD port.
470 Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
473 Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
476 Ken Rose for fixes to our delay slot filling code.
479 Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
482 Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
485 Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
488 Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
491 William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
494 Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
495 work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
499 Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
502 Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
503 contributions and RTEMS testing.
506 Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
509 Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
510 code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
511 folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
514 Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
518 Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
521 Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
524 Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
527 Scott Snyder for various fixes.
530 Richard Stallman, for writing the original gcc and launching the GNU project.
533 Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
534 Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
537 Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
540 Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
543 Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
546 Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, g++ contributions over the years and more
547 recently his vxworks contributions
550 Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
553 Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking,
557 Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU.
560 Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
563 Philipp Thomas for random bugfixes throughout the compiler
566 Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
570 Michael Tiemann for random bugfixes, the first instruction scheduler,
571 initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
572 machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
575 Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
578 Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
579 definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
582 Tom Tromey for internationalization support and his Java work.
585 Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
589 Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
592 Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
596 Krister Walfridsson for random bugfixes.
599 John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
600 related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
601 value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
604 Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bugfixes.
607 Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
610 Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
613 Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
614 problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
615 reduction and other loop optimizations.
618 Carlo Wood for various fixes.
621 Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
624 Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
625 description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
628 Kevin Zachmann helped ported GCC to the Tahoe.
633 We'd also like to thank the folks who have contributed time and energy in
749 And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug
750 reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.