@item
Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end.
+@item
+Godmar Back for his Java improvements and encouragement.
+
+@item
+Scott Bambrough for help porting the Java compiler.
+
+@item
+Jon Beniston for his Win32 port of Java.
+
+@item
+Geoff Berry for his Java object serialization work and various patches.
+
+@item
+Eric Blake for helping to make gcj and libgcj conform to the
+specifications.
+
+@item
+Hans-J. Boehm for his @uref{http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/,,
+garbage collector}, IA-64 libffi port, and other Java work.
+
@item
Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other
miscellaneous clean-ups.
@item
Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
improvements to our infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
-and Java front end implementations. Initial implementations of
-cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library
-(libg++) maintainer.
+front end implementation. Initial implementations of
+cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++)
+maintainer. Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of gcj.
@item
Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
@item
Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
+@item
+Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ.
+
@item
Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
@item
-Steve Chamberlain wrote the support for the Hitachi SH and H8 processors
-and the PicoJava processor.
+Steve Chamberlain for support for the Hitachi SH and H8 processors
+and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.
+
+@item
+Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ.
+
+@item
+John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches.
@item
Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
+@item
+Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.
+
@item
Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
+@item
+The @uref{http://www.classpath.org,,GNU Classpath project}
+for all of their merged runtime code.
+
@item
Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and other random
hacking.
Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
that print a copy of their source.
+@item
+Mo DeJong for gcj and libgcj bug fixes.
+
@item
Ulrich Drepper for his work on the C++ runtime libraries, glibc,
testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99 support, CFG dumping support, etc.
@item
Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
+@item
+Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portugese translation of the GCJ FAQ.
+
@item
Peter Gerwinski for various bugfixes and the Pascal front end.
Kaveh Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee and
amazing work to make @samp{-W -Wall} useful.
+@item
+John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.
+
@item
Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
@item
Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work.
+@item
+Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug our code.
+
@item
Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
warnings and assorted bugfixes.
@item
-Andrew Haley for his Java work.
+Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
@item
Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
@item
Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
-as lots of bug fixes and test cases.
+as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
+system.
@item
Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes and for her quality improvement
@item
J. Kean Johnston for OpenServer support.
+@item
+Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
+Kenner's "``toy'' language".
+
@item
Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for improvements to demangler and various c++ fixes.
@item
-Warren Levy major work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and random
-work on the Java front end.
+Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
+random work on the Java front end.
@item
Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU.
+@item
+Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and
+patches.
+
@item
Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
@item
-Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC
-hacking improvements to compile-time performance and overall knowledge
-and direction in the area of instruction scheduling.
+Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking
+improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and
+direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and
+implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler.
@item
Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
+@item
+All of the Mauve project
+@uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/mauve/THANKS?rev=1.2&cvsroot=mauve&only_with_tag=HEAD,,contributors},
+for Java test code.
+
+@item
+Bryce McKinlay for numerous gcj and libgcj fixes and improvements.
+
+@item
+Adam Megacz for his work on the Win32 port of GCJ.
+
@item
Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
Linux kernels.
+@item
+Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.
+
@item
David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements.
@item
Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to our o32
-ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, etc.
+ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
+clean-ups and porting work, etc.
@item
Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
@item
-Alexandre Petit-Bianco for his Java work.
+Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and
+continued Java maintainership.
@item
Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
cleanups in the compiler.
+@item
+Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT.
+
@item
David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
port.
@item
Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
+@item
+Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ.
+
@item
Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
GCC 2.95.3.
+@item
+Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.
+
@item
Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
@item
Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
+@item
+John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.
+
@item
Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, g++ contributions over the years and more
recently his vxworks contributions
+@item
+Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.
+
@item
Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
@item
Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
-language.
+language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
@item
Michael Tiemann for random bugfixes, the first instruction scheduler,
initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
+@item
+Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.
+
@item
Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
@item
-Tom Tromey for internationalization support and his Java work.
+Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java
+contributions and libgcj maintainership.
@item
Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
@item
Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bugfixes.
+@item
+Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ.
+
+@item
+Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.
+
+@item
+Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with
+Classpath.
+
@item
Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
@item
Kevin Zachmann helped ported GCC to the Tahoe.
+@item
+Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.
+
@end itemize
testing GCC:
@itemize @bullet
+@item
+Michael Abd-El-Malek
+
+@item
+Thomas Arend
+
+@item
+Bonzo Armstrong
+
+@item
+Steven Ashe
+
+@item
+Chris Baldwin
+
@item
David Billinghurst
+@item
+Jim Blandy
+
+@item
+Stephane Bortzmeyer
+
@item
Horst von Brand
+@item
+Frank Braun
+
@item
Rodney Brown
@item
Craig Burley
+@item
+Sidney Cadot
+
+@item
+Bradford Castalia
+
+@item
+Ralph Doncaster
+
@item
Ulrich Drepper
@item
David Edelsohn
+@item
+Richard Emberson
+
+@item
+Graham Fawcett
+
+@item
+Robert A. French
+
+@item
+Mark K. Gardner
+
+@item
+Charles-Antoine Gauthier
+
@item
Yung Shing Gene
@item
Kaveh Ghazi
+@item
+Simon Gornall
+
+@item
+Fred Gray
+
+@item
+John Griffin
+
+@item
+Patrik Hagglund
+
+@item
+Phil Hargett
+
+@item
+Amancio Hasty
+
+@item
+Bryan W. Headley
+
@item
Kate Hedstrom
@item
Richard Henderson
+@item
+Kevin B. Hendricks
+
@item
Manfred Hollstein
@item
Kamil Iskra
+@item
+Joep Jansen
+
@item
Christian Joensson
+@item
+David Kidd
+
+@item
+Tobias Kuipers
+
+@item
+Anand Krishnaswamy
+
@item
Jeff Law
@item
Martin Knoblauch
+@item
+Jesse Macnish
+
@item
David Miller
@item
Toon Moene
+@item
+Stefan Morrell
+
+@item
+Anon A. Mous
+
@item
Matthias Mueller
+@item
+Pekka Nikander
+
@item
Alexandre Oliva
+@item
+Jon Olson
+
+@item
+Magnus Persson
+
+@item
+Chris Pollard
+
@item
Richard Polton
@item
David Rees
+@item
+Paul Reilly
+
+@item
+Tom Reilly
+
@item
Loren J. Rittle
+@item
+Torsten Rueger
+
+@item
+Danny Sadinoff
+
+@item
+Marc Schifer
+
@item
Peter Schmid
@item
Franz Sirl
+@item
+Tim Souder
+
@item
Mike Stump
+@item
+Adam Sulmicki
+
+@item
+Gregory Warnes
+
@item
Carlo Wood
+@item
+David E. Young
+
@item
And many others
@end itemize