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   1 @node Contributors, Free Manuals, Platform, Top
   2 @c %MENU% Who wrote what parts of the GNU C Library
   3 @appendix Contributors to @theglibc{}
   4
   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.
  11
  12 @itemize @bullet
  13
  14 @item
  15 Ryan S. Arnold for his improvements for Linux on PowerPC.
  16
  17 @item
  18 Miles Bader for writing the @code{argp} argument-parsing package, and the
  19 @code{argz}/@code{envz} interfaces.
  20
  21 @item
  22 Jeff Bailey for his maintainership of the HPPA architecture.
  23
  24 @item
  25 Petr Baudis for bug fixes and testing.
  26
  27 @item
  28 Stephen R. van den Berg for contributing a highly-optimized
  29 @code{strstr} function.
  30
  31 @item
  32 Eric Blake for adding O(n) implementations of @code{memmem},
  33 @code{strstr} and @code{strcasestr}.
  34
  35 @item
  36 Philip Blundell for the ports to Linux/ARM
  37 (@code{arm-@var{ANYTHING}-linuxaout}) and ARM standalone
  38 (@code{arm-@var{ANYTHING}-none}), as well as for parts of the IPv6
  39 support code.
  40
  41 @item
  42 Per Bothner for the implementation of the @code{libio} library which
  43 is used to implement @code{stdio} functions.
  44
  45 @item
  46 Mark Brown for his direction as part of @theglibc{} steering
  47 committee.
  48
  49 @item
  50 Thomas Bushnell for his contributions to Hurd.
  51
  52 @item
  53 Liubov Dmitrieva for optimzed string and math functions on x86-64 and
  54 x86.
  55
  56 @item
  57 Ulrich Drepper for his many contributions in almost all parts of
  58 @theglibc{}, including:
  59 @itemize @bullet
  60 @item internationalization support, including the @code{locale} and
  61 @code{localedef} utilities.
  62 @item Linux i386/ELF support
  63 @item the @code{hsearch} and @code{drand48} families of functions,
  64 reentrant @samp{@dots{}@code{_r}} versions of the @code{random}
  65 family; System V shared memory and IPC support code
  66 @item several highly-optimized string functions for i@var{x}86
  67 processors
  68 @item many math functions
  69 @item the character conversion functions (@code{iconv})
  70 @item the @code{ftw} and @code{nftw} functions
  71 @item the floating-point printing function used by @code{printf} and friends
  72 and the floating-point reading function used by @code{scanf},
  73 @code{strtod} and friends
  74 @item the @code{catgets} support and the entire suite of multi-byte
  75 and wide-character support functions (@file{wctype.h}, @file{wchar.h}, etc.).
  76 @item versioning of objects on the symbol level
  77 @end itemize
  78
  79 @item
  80 Paul Eggert for the @code{mktime} function and for his direction as
  81 part of @theglibc{} steering committee.
  82
  83 @item
  84 Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho for adding a new class of installed
  85 headers for low-level platform-specific functionality and one such for
  86 PowerPC.
  87
  88 @item
  89 Mike Frysinger for his maintaining of the IA64 architecture and for
  90 testing and bug fixing.
  91
  92 @item
  93 Michael Glad for the DES encryption function @code{crypt} and related
  94 functions.
  95
  96 @item
  97 Wolfram Gloger for contributing the memory allocation functions
  98 functions @code{malloc}, @code{realloc} and @code{free} and related
  99 code.
 100
 101 @item
 102 Torbj@"orn Granlund for fast implementations of many of the string
 103 functions (@code{memcpy}, @code{strlen}, etc.).
 104
 105 @item
 106 Michael J. Haertel for writing the merge sort function @code{qsort}
 107 and malloc checking functions like @code{mcheck}.
 108
 109 @item
 110 Bruno Haible for his improvements to the @code{iconv} and locale
 111 implementations.
 112
 113 @item
 114 Richard Henderson for the port to Linux on Alpha
 115 (@code{alpha-@var{anything}-linux}).
 116
 117 @item
 118 Daniel Jacobowitz for various fixes and enhancements.
 119
 120 @item
 121 Andreas Jaeger for the port to Linux on x86-64
 122 (@code{x86_64-@var{anything}-linux} and his work on Linux for MIPS
 123 (@code{mips-@var{anything}-linux}), implementing the @file{ldconfig}
 124 program, providing a test suite for the math library and for his
 125 direction as part of @theglibc{} steering committee.
 126
 127 @item
 128 Aurelien Jarno for various fixes.
 129
 130 @item
 131 Jakub Jelinek for implementing a number of checking functions and for
 132 his direction as part of @theglibc{} steering committee.
 133
 134 @item
 135 Geoffrey Keating for the port to Linux on PowerPC
 136 (@code{powerpc-@var{anything}-linux}).
 137
 138 @item
 139 Brendan Kehoe for contributing the port to the MIPS DECStation running
 140 Ultrix 4 (@code{mips-dec-ultrix4}) and the port to the DEC Alpha
 141 running OSF/1 (@code{alpha-dec-osf1}).
 142
 143 @item
 144 Mark Kettenis for implementing the @code{utmpx} interface and an utmp
 145 daemon, and for a Hesiod NSS module.
 146
 147 @item
 148 Kazumoto Kojima for the port of the Mach and Hurd code to the MIPS
 149 architecture (@code{mips-@var{anything}-gnu}) and for his work on the
 150 SH architecture.
 151
 152 @item
 153 Andreas Krebbel for his work on Linux for s390 and s390x.
 154
 155 @item
 156 Thorsten Kukuk for providing an implementation for NIS (YP) and NIS+,
 157 securelevel 0, 1 and 2 and for the implementation for a caching daemon
 158 for NSS (@file{nscd}).
 159
 160 @item
 161 Jeff Law for various fixes.
 162
 163 @item
 164 Doug Lea for contributing the memory allocation functions
 165 functions @code{malloc}, @code{realloc} and @code{free} and related
 166 code.
 167
 168 @item
 169 Hongjiu Lu for providing the support for a Linux 32-bit runtime
 170 environment under x86-64 (x32), for porting to Linux on IA64, for
 171 improved string functions, a framework for testing IFUNC
 172 implementations, and many bug fixes.
 173
 174 @item
 175 Luis Machado for optimized functions on PowerPC.
 176
 177 @item
 178 David J. MacKenzie for his contribution to the @code{getopt}
 179 function and writing the @file{tar.h} header.
 180
 181 @item
 182 Greg McGary for adding runtime support for bounds checking.
 183
 184 @item
 185 Roland McGrath for writing most of @theglibc{} originally, for his
 186 work on the Hurd port, his direction as part of @theglibc{} steering
 187 committee, and for many bug fixes and reviewing of contributions.
 188
 189 @item
 190 Jason Merrill for the port to the Sequent Symmetry running Dynix
 191 version 3 (@code{i386-sequent-bsd}).
 192
 193 @item
 194 Chris Metcalf for the port to Linux/Tile
 195 (@code{tilegx-@var{anything}-linux} and
 196 @code{tilepro-@var{anything}-linux}).
 197
 198 @item
 199 David Miller for contributing the port to Linux/Sparc
 200 (@code{sparc*-@var{anything}-linux}).
 201
 202 @item
 203 Alan Modra for his improvements for Linux on PowerPC.
 204
 205 @item
 206 David Mosberger-Tang for contributing the port to Linux/Alpha
 207 (@code{alpha-@var{anything}-linux}).
 208
 209 @item
 210 Stephen Moshier for implementing some 128-bit long double format math
 211 functions.
 212
 213 @item
 214 Stephen Munroe for his port to Linux on PowerPC64
 215 (@code{powerpc64-@var{anything}-linux}) and for adding optimized
 216 implementations for PowerPC.
 217
 218 @item
 219 Joseph S. Myers for numerous bug fixes for the libm functions, for
 220 his maintainership of the ARM and MIPS architectures, improving
 221 cross-compilation and cross-testing of @theglibc{}, expanded
 222 coverage of conformtest, and merging the ports/ subdirectory
 223 into the @glibcadj{} main repository.
 224
 225 @item
 226 Carlos O'Donell for his maintainership of the HPPA architecture and
 227 maintaining @theglibc{} web pages.
 228
 229 @item
 230 Alexandre Oliva for adding TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and
 231 x86-64, for the am33 port, for completing the MIPS n64/n32/o32 multilib
 232 port, and for various fixes.
 233
 234 @item
 235 Paul Pluzhnikov for various fixes.
 236
 237 @item
 238 Marek Polacek for various fixes.
 239
 240 @item
 241 Siddhesh Poyarekar for various fixes.
 242
 243 @item
 244 Tom Quinn for contributing the startup code to support SunOS shared
 245 libraries and the port to SGI machines running Irix 4
 246 (@code{mips-sgi-irix4}).
 247
 248 @item
 249 Pravin Satpute for writing sorting rules for some Indian languages.
 250
 251 @item
 252 Douglas C. Schmidt for writing the quick sort function used as a
 253 fallback by @code{qsort}.
 254
 255 @item
 256 Will Schmidt for optimized string functions on PowerPC.
 257
 258 @item
 259 Andreas Schwab for the port to Linux/m68k
 260 (@code{m68k-@var{anything}-linux}) and for his direction as part of
 261 @theglibc{} steering committee.
 262
 263 @item
 264 Martin Schwidefsky for porting to Linux on s390
 265 (@code{s390-@var{anything}-linux}) and s390x
 266 (@code{s390x-@var{anything}-linux}).
 267
 268 @item
 269 Thomas Schwinge for his contribution to Hurd and the SH architecture.
 270
 271 @item
 272 Carlos Eduardo Seo for optimized functions on PowerPC.
 273
 274 @item
 275 Marcus Shawcroft for contributing the AArch64 port.
 276
 277 @item
 278 Franz Sirl for various fixes.
 279
 280 @item
 281 Jes Sorensen for porting to Linux on IA64 (@code{ia64-@var{anything}-linux}).
 282
 283 @item
 284 Richard Stallman for his contribution to the @code{getopt} function.
 285
 286 @item
 287 Alfred M. Szmidt for various fixes.
 288
 289 @item
 290 Ian Lance Taylor for contributing the port to the MIPS DECStation
 291 running Ultrix 4 (@code{mips-dec-ultrix4}).
 292
 293 @item
 294 Samuel Thibault for improving the Hurd port.
 295
 296 @item
 297 Tim Waugh for the implementation of the POSIX.2 @code{wordexp}
 298 function family.
 299
 300 @item
 301 Eric Youngdale for implementing versioning of objects on the symbol level.
 302
 303 @item
 304 Adhemerval Zanella for optimized functions on PowerPC.
 305
 306 @end itemize
 307
 308 Some code in @theglibc{} comes from other projects and might be under
 309 a different license:
 310
 311 @itemize @bullet
 312 @item
 313 The timezone support code is derived from the public-domain timezone
 314 package by Arthur David Olson and his many contributors.
 315
 316 @item
 317 Some of the support code for Mach is taken from Mach 3.0 by CMU;
 318 the file if_ppp.h is also copyright by CMU, but under a different license;
 319 see the file @file{LICENSES} for the text of the licenses.
 320
 321 @item
 322 The random number generation functions @code{random}, @code{srandom},
 323 @code{setstate} and @code{initstate}, which are also the basis for the
 324 @code{rand} and @code{srand} functions, were written by Earl T. Cohen
 325 for the University of California at Berkeley and are copyrighted by the
 326 Regents of the University of California.  They have undergone minor
 327 changes to fit into @theglibc{} and to fit the @w{ISO C} standard,
 328 but the functional code is Berkeley's.@refill
 329
 330 @item
 331 The Internet-related code (most of the @file{inet} subdirectory) and
 332 several other miscellaneous functions and header files have been
 333 included from 4.4 BSD with little or no modification.  The copying
 334 permission notice for this code can be found in the file @file{LICENSES}
 335 in the source distribution.
 336
 337 @item
 338 The @code{getaddrinfo} and @code{getnameinfo} functions and supporting
 339 code were written by Craig Metz; see the file @file{LICENSES} for
 340 details on their licensing.
 341
 342 @item
 343 The DNS resolver code is taken directly from BIND 4.9.5, which
 344 includes copyrighted code from UC Berkeley and from Digital Equipment
 345 Corporation.  See the file @file{LICENSES} for the text of the DEC license.
 346
 347 @item
 348 The code to support Sun RPC is taken verbatim from Sun's
 349 @w{@sc{rpcsrc-4.0}} distribution; see the file @file{LICENSES} for the
 350 text of the license.
 351
 352 @item
 353 The math functions are taken from @code{fdlibm-5.1} by Sun
 354 Microsystems, as modified by J.T. Conklin, Ian Lance Taylor,
 355 Ulrich Drepper, Andreas Schwab, and Roland McGrath.
 356
 357 @item
 358 Many of the IEEE 64-bit double precision math functions
 359 (in the @file{sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64} subdirectory) come
 360 from the IBM Accurate Mathematical Library, contributed by IBM.
 361
 362 @item
 363 Many of the IA64 math functions are taken from a collection of
 364 ``Highly Optimized Mathematical Functions for Itanium'' that Intel
 365 makes available under a free license; see the file @file{LICENSES} for
 366 details.
 367
 368 @end itemize