1@c Copyright (C) 1988-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 2@c This is part of the GCC manual. 3@c For copying conditions, see the file gcc.texi. 4 5@node Contributors 6@unnumbered Contributors to GCC 7@cindex contributors 8 9The GCC project would like to thank its many contributors. Without them the 10project would not have been nearly as successful as it has been. Any omissions 11in this list are accidental. Feel free to contact 12@email{law@@redhat.com} or @email{gerald@@pfeifer.com} if you have been left 13out or some of your contributions are not listed. Please keep this list in 14alphabetical order. 15 16@itemize @bullet 17 18@item 19Analog Devices helped implement the support for complex data types 20and iterators. 21 22@item 23John David Anglin for threading-related fixes and improvements to 24libstdc++-v3, and the HP-UX port. 25 26@item 27James van Artsdalen wrote the code that makes efficient use of 28the Intel 80387 register stack. 29 30@item 31Abramo and Roberto Bagnara for the SysV68 Motorola 3300 Delta Series 32port. 33 34@item 35Alasdair Baird for various bug fixes. 36 37@item 38Giovanni Bajo for analyzing lots of complicated C++ problem reports. 39 40@item 41Peter Barada for his work to improve code generation for new 42ColdFire cores. 43 44@item 45Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end. 46 47@item 48Godmar Back for his Java improvements and encouragement. 49 50@item 51Scott Bambrough for help porting the Java compiler. 52 53@item 54Wolfgang Bangerth for processing tons of bug reports. 55 56@item 57Jon Beniston for his Microsoft Windows port of Java and port to Lattice Mico32. 58 59@item 60Daniel Berlin for better DWARF 2 support, faster/better optimizations, 61improved alias analysis, plus migrating GCC to Bugzilla. 62 63@item 64Geoff Berry for his Java object serialization work and various patches. 65 66@item 67David Binderman tests weekly snapshots of GCC trunk against Fedora Rawhide 68for several architectures. 69 70@item 71Laurynas Biveinis for memory management work and DJGPP port fixes. 72 73@item 74Uros Bizjak for the implementation of x87 math built-in functions and 75for various middle end and i386 back end improvements and bug fixes. 76 77@item 78Eric Blake for helping to make GCJ and libgcj conform to the 79specifications. 80 81@item 82Janne Blomqvist for contributions to GNU Fortran. 83 84@item 85Hans-J. Boehm for his garbage collector, IA-64 libffi port, and other 86Java work. 87 88@item 89Segher Boessenkool for helping maintain the PowerPC port and the 90instruction combiner plus various contributions to the middle end. 91 92@item 93Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other 94miscellaneous clean-ups. 95 96@item 97Steven Bosscher for integrating the GNU Fortran front end into GCC and for 98contributing to the tree-ssa branch. 99 100@item 101Eric Botcazou for fixing middle- and backend bugs left and right. 102 103@item 104Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various 105improvements to the infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill 106front end implementation. Initial implementations of 107cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++) 108maintainer. Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of GCJ@. 109 110@item 111Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe. 112 113@item 114Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions. 115 116@item 117James Bowman for the FT32 port. 118 119@item 120Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill. 121 122@item 123Paul Brook for work on the ARM architecture and maintaining GNU Fortran. 124 125@item 126Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems. 127 128@item 129Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination. 130 131@item 132Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes. 133 134@item 135Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ@. 136 137@item 138Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee from its creation 139to 2013. 140 141@item 142Iain Buclaw for the D frontend. 143 144@item 145Craig Burley for leadership of the G77 Fortran effort. 146 147@item 148Tobias Burnus for contributions to GNU Fortran. 149 150@item 151Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++. 152 153@item 154Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to 155the C++ strings, streambufs and formatted I/O, hard detective work on 156the frustrating localization issues, and keeping up with the problem reports. 157 158@item 159John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements, 160previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc. 161 162@item 163Stephane Carrez for 68HC11 and 68HC12 ports. 164 165@item 166Steve Chamberlain for support for the Renesas SH and H8 processors 167and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes. 168 169@item 170Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ@. 171 172@item 173John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches. 174 175@item 176Denis Chertykov for contributing and maintaining the AVR port, the first GCC port 177for an 8-bit architecture. 178 179@item 180Kito Cheng for his work on the RISC-V port, including bringing up the test 181suite and maintenance. 182 183@item 184Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions. 185 186@item 187Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups. 188 189@item 190Branko Cibej for more warning contributions. 191 192@item 193The @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/,,GNU Classpath project} 194for all of their merged runtime code. 195 196@item 197Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r, msp430 rx work, 198@option{--help}, and other random hacking. 199 200@item 201Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings. 202 203@item 204R. Kelley Cook for making GCC buildable from a read-only directory as 205well as other miscellaneous build process and documentation clean-ups. 206 207@item 208Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bug fixing. 209 210@item 211Fran@,{c}ois-Xavier Coudert for contributions to GNU Fortran. 212 213@item 214Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind 215the scenes hacking. 216 217@item 218Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1. 219 220@item 221Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port. 222 223@item 224Paul Dale for his work to add uClinux platform support to the 225m68k backend. 226 227@item 228Palmer Dabbelt for his work maintaining the RISC-V port. 229 230@item 231Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs 232that print a copy of their source. 233 234@item 235Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++. 236 237@item 238Bud Davis for work on the G77 and GNU Fortran compilers. 239 240@item 241Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes. 242 243@item 244Jerry DeLisle for contributions to GNU Fortran. 245 246@item 247DJ Delorie for the DJGPP port, build and libiberty maintenance, 248various bug fixes, and the M32C, MeP, MSP430, and RL78 ports. 249 250@item 251Arnaud Desitter for helping to debug GNU Fortran. 252 253@item 254Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to G++, contributions and 255maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3, 256including @code{valarray<>}, @code{complex<>}, maintaining the numerics library 257(including that pesky @code{<limits>} :-) and keeping up-to-date anything 258to do with numbers. 259 260@item 261Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99 262support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime 263libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and 264maintaining @code{complex<>}, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration 265architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work. 266 267@item 268Fran@,{c}ois Dumont for his work on libstdc++-v3, especially maintaining and 269improving @code{debug-mode} and associative and unordered containers. 270 271@item 272Zdenek Dvorak for a new loop unroller and various fixes. 273 274@item 275Michael Eager for his work on the Xilinx MicroBlaze port. 276 277@item 278Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@. 279 280@item 281David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work 282with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes, 283doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands, and for 284ensuring GCC properly keeps working on AIX@. 285 286@item 287Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in 288libstdc++. 289 290@item 291Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery, 292documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional 293iostream bug fix, and work on shared library symbol versioning. 294 295@item 296Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@. 297 298@item 299Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++ 300configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes. 301 302@item 303Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams. 304 305@item 306Christian Ehrhardt for dealing with bug reports. 307 308@item 309Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its 310own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf. 311 312@item 313Revital Eres for work on the PowerPC 750CL port. 314 315@item 316Marc Espie for OpenBSD support. 317 318@item 319Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r, 320and SPARC work. 321 322@item 323Christopher Faylor for his work on the Cygwin port and for caring and 324feeding the gcc.gnu.org box and saving its users tons of spam. 325 326@item 327Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes. 328 329@item 330Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portuguese translation of the GCJ FAQ@. 331 332@item 333Peter Gerwinski for various bug fixes and the Pascal front end. 334 335@item 336Kaveh R.@: Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee, amazing 337work to make @samp{-W -Wall -W* -Werror} useful, and 338testing GCC on a plethora of platforms. Kaveh extends his gratitude to 339the CAIP Center at Rutgers University for providing him with computing 340resources to work on Free Software from the late 1980s to 2010. 341 342@item 343John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java. 344 345@item 346Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions. 347 348@item 349Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite, 350multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long 351support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction 352via the steering committee. 353 354@item 355Jonny Grant for improvements to @code{collect2's} @option{--help} documentation. 356 357@item 358Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions, the moxie port, and 359Java front end work. 360 361@item 362Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug Java code. 363 364@item 365Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11. 366 367@item 368Richard Biener for his ongoing middle-end contributions and bug fixes 369and for release management. 370 371@item 372Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize} 373tools, the support for DWARF 1 symbolic debugging information, and much of 374the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the 375Intel 386 and 860 support. 376 377@item 378Sumanth Gundapaneni for contributing the CR16 port. 379 380@item 381Mostafa Hagog for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS) and post reload GCSE@. 382 383@item 384Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new 385warnings and assorted bug fixes. 386 387@item 388Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts. 389 390@item 391Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300. 392 393@item 394Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get 395the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and 396fixes. 397 398@item 399Dara Hazeghi for wading through myriads of target-specific bug reports. 400 401@item 402Kate Hedstrom for staking the G77 folks with an initial testsuite. 403 404@item 405Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, ia32, and ia64 work, loop 406opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for 407years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing 408tons of patches. 409 410@item 411Aldy Hernandez for working on the PowerPC port, SIMD support, and 412various fixes. 413 414@item 415Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed 416the support for the Sony NEWS machine. 417 418@item 419Kazu Hirata for caring and feeding the Renesas H8/300 port and various fixes. 420 421@item 422Katherine Holcomb for work on GNU Fortran. 423 424@item 425Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots 426of testing and bug fixing, particularly of GCC configury code. 427 428@item 429Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches. 430 431@item 432Mat Hostetter for work on the TILE-Gx and TILEPro ports. 433 434@item 435Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements. 436 437@item 438Falk Hueffner for working on C and optimization bug reports. 439 440@item 441Bernardo Innocenti for his m68k work, including merging of 442ColdFire improvements and uClinux support. 443 444@item 445Christian Iseli for various bug fixes. 446 447@item 448Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking. 449 450@item 451Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing. 452 453@item 454Balaji V. Iyer for Cilk+ development and merging. 455 456@item 457Andreas Jaeger for testing and benchmarking of GCC and various bug fixes. 458 459@item 460Martin Jambor for his work on inter-procedural optimizations, the 461switch conversion pass, and scalar replacement of aggregates. 462 463@item 464Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well 465as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build 466system. 467 468@item 469Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes, her quality improvement 470sidetracks, and web page maintenance. 471 472@item 473Kean Johnston for SCO OpenServer support and various fixes. 474 475@item 476Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard 477Kenner's ``toy'' language. 478 479@item 480Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation. 481 482@item 483Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target. 484 485@item 486Steven G. Kargl for work on GNU Fortran. 487 488@item 489David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@. 490 491@item 492Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bug fixes and optimizations of 493strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes. 494 495@item 496Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux 497and his automatic regression tester. 498 499@item 500Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with G++ and for a lot of early work 501in just about every part of libstdc++. 502 503@item 504Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the 505MIL-STD-1750A@. 506 507@item 508Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research 509Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC 510Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for 511instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC 512processors including changes to common subexpression elimination, 513strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition 514code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer 515elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the 516head maintainer of GCC for several years. 517 518@item 519Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and 520maintaining binary releases for Microsoft Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++ 521porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32. 522 523@item 524Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support. 525 526@item 527Mark Klein for PA improvements. 528 529@item 530Thomas Koenig for various bug fixes. 531 532@item 533Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code. 534 535@item 536Benjamin Kosnik for his G++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort. 537 538@item 539Maxim Kuvyrkov for contributions to the instruction scheduler, the Android 540and m68k/Coldfire ports, and optimizations. 541 542@item 543Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions 54468020 system. 545 546@item 547Asher Langton and Mike Kumbera for contributing Cray pointer support 548to GNU Fortran, and for other GNU Fortran improvements. 549 550@item 551Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the 552entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases, 553handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have 554fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking. 555 556@item 557Walter Lee for work on the TILE-Gx and TILEPro ports. 558 559@item 560Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping 561with analysis and improvements of x86 performance. 562 563@item 564Victor Leikehman for work on GNU Fortran. 565 566@item 567Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer. 568 569@item 570Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for C++ improvements including template as template 571parameter support, and many C++ fixes. 572 573@item 574Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and 575random work on the Java front end. 576 577@item 578Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU@. 579 580@item 581Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and 582patches. 583 584@item 585Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc. 586 587@item 588Chen Liqin for various S+core related fixes/improvement, and for 589maintaining the S+core port. 590 591@item 592Martin Liska for his work on identical code folding, the sanitizers, 593HSA, general bug fixing and for running automated regression testing of GCC 594and reporting numerous bugs. 595 596@item 597Weiwen Liu for testing and various bug fixes. 598 599@item 600Manuel L@'opez-Ib@'a@~nez for improving @option{-Wconversion} and 601many other diagnostics fixes and improvements. 602 603@item 604Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and 605runtime libraries. 606 607@item 608Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure, 609various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of 610assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges. 611 612@item 613H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86 614bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working. 615 616@item 617Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers. 618 619@item 620Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system, 621various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc. 622 623@item 624Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking 625improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and 626direction in the area of instruction scheduling, design and 627implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler and 628design and implementation of the integrated and local register allocators. 629 630@item 631David Malcolm for his work on improving GCC diagnostics, JIT, self-tests 632and unit testing. 633 634@item 635Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu. 636 637@item 638John Marino for contributing the DragonFly BSD port. 639 640@item 641Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and 642improvements, and string clean up and testsuites. 643 644@item 645Michael Matz for his work on dominance tree discovery, the x86-64 port, 646link-time optimization framework and general optimization improvements. 647 648@item 649All of the Mauve project contributors for Java test code. 650 651@item 652Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements. 653 654@item 655Adam Megacz for his work on the Microsoft Windows port of GCJ@. 656 657@item 658Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS, 659powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking. 660 661@item 662Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading 663the G++ effort. 664 665@item 666Martin Michlmayr for testing GCC on several architectures using the 667entire Debian archive. 668 669@item 670David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of 671SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel 672developers. 673 674@item 675Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines. 676 677@item 678Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bug fixes, and turning the 679entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible. 680 681@item 682Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of 683C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements, 684ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager from 2000 685to 2011. 686 687@item 688Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing. 689 690@item 691Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran 692maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast. 693 694@item 695Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services 696on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web 697services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and 698the backs of envelopes would have been@dots{} difficult. 699 700@item 701Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her 702way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC 703Linux kernels. 704 705@item 706Mike Moreton for his various Java patches. 707 708@item 709David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements, and for the initial 710IA-64 port. 711 712@item 713Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in 714cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider 715than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support. 716 717@item 718Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues. 719 720@item 721Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port. 722 723@item 724Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO 725C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation. 726 727@item 728Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship 729through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale 730infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project 731documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on 732MT-safe string and shadow headers. 733 734@item 735Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++. 736 737@item 738Nathanael Nerode for cleaning up the configuration/build process. 739 740@item 741NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C 742language. 743 744@item 745Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search 746engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes. 747 748@item 749Geoff Noer for his work on getting cygwin native builds working. 750 751@item 752Vegard Nossum for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting 753numerous bugs. 754 755@item 756Diego Novillo for his work on Tree SSA, OpenMP, SPEC performance 757tracking web pages, GIMPLE tuples, and assorted fixes. 758 759@item 760David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM, 761FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure 762improvements. 763 764@item 765Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and 766amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy. 767 768@item 769Stefan Olsson for work on mt_alloc. 770 771@item 772Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes. 773 774@item 775Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to GCC's o32 776ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration 777clean-ups and porting work, and maintaining the IRIX, Solaris 2, and 778Tru64 UNIX ports. 779 780@item 781Steven Pemberton for his contribution of @file{enquire} which allowed GCC to 782determine various properties of the floating point unit and generate 783@file{float.h} in older versions of GCC. 784 785@item 786Hartmut Penner for work on the s390 port. 787 788@item 789Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8. 790 791@item 792Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and 793continued Java maintainership. 794 795@item 796Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port. 797 798@item 799Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing 800out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and 801taking care of documentation maintenance in general. 802 803@item 804Marek Polacek for his work on the C front end, the sanitizers and general 805bug fixing. 806 807@item 808Andrew Pinski for processing bug reports by the dozen. 809 810@item 811Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime 812libraries. 813 814@item 815Jerry Quinn for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O@. 816 817@item 818Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various 819cleanups in the compiler. 820 821@item 822Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT@. 823 824@item 825David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC 826port. 827 828@item 829John Regehr for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting 830numerous bugs. 831 832@item 833Volker Reichelt for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting 834numerous bugs and for keeping up with the problem reports. 835 836@item 837Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload 838hacking and developing and maintaining the Epiphany port. 839 840@item 841Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD 842port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical 843threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems, 844as well as keeping GCC properly working on FreeBSD and continuous testing. 845 846@item 847Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports. 848 849@item 850Ola R@"onnerup for work on mt_alloc. 851 852@item 853Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work. 854 855@item 856David Ronis inspired and encouraged Craig to rewrite the G77 857documentation in texinfo format by contributing a first pass at a 858translation of the old @file{g77-0.5.16/f/DOC} file. 859 860@item 861Ken Rose for fixes to GCC's delay slot filling code. 862 863@item 864Ira Rosen for her contributions to the auto-vectorizer. 865 866@item 867Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor. 868 869@item 870P@'etur Run@'olfsson for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O and 871large file support in C++ filebuf. 872 873@item 874Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits, 875Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and ``long long'' support. 876 877@item 878Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator. 879 880@item 881Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300. 882 883@item 884Roger Sayle for improvements to constant folding and GCC's RTL optimizers 885as well as for fixing numerous bugs. 886 887@item 888Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ@. 889 890@item 891Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha. 892 893@item 894William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support. 895 896@item 897Tobias Schl@"uter for work on GNU Fortran. 898 899@item 900Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major 901work in the reload pass, serving as release manager for 902GCC 2.95.3, and work on the Blackfin and C6X ports. 903 904@item 905Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++---especially application 906testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release 907criteria---and libstdc++ header file tweaks. 908 909@item 910Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches. 911 912@item 913Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port. 914 915@item 916Lars Segerlund for work on GNU Fortran. 917 918@item 919Dodji Seketeli for numerous C++ bug fixes and debug info improvements. 920 921@item 922Tim Shen for major work on @code{<regex>}. 923 924@item 925Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS 926contributions and RTEMS testing. 927 928@item 929Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements. 930 931@item 932Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some 933code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant 934folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports. 935 936@item 937Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from 938the LWG (thereby keeping GCC in line with updates from the ISO)@. 939 940@item 941Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable 942for GNU/Linux. 943 944@item 945Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking. 946 947@item 948Trevor Smigiel for contributing the SPU port. 949 950@item 951Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines. 952 953@item 954Danny Smith for his major efforts on the Mingw (and Cygwin) ports. 955Retired from GCC maintainership August 2010, having mentored two 956new maintainers into the role. 957 958@item 959Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support. 960 961@item 962Ed Smith-Rowland for his continuous work on libstdc++-v3, special functions, 963@code{<random>}, and various improvements to C++11 features. 964 965@item 966Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++ 967testsuite entries. Also for providing the patch to G77 to add 968rudimentary support for @code{INTEGER*1}, @code{INTEGER*2}, and 969@code{LOGICAL*1}. 970 971@item 972Zdenek Sojka for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting 973numerous bugs. 974 975@item 976Arseny Solokha for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting 977numerous bugs. 978 979@item 980Jayant Sonar for contributing the CR16 port. 981 982@item 983Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique. 984 985@item 986Richard Stallman, for writing the original GCC and launching the GNU project. 987 988@item 989Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for 990Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description. 991 992@item 993Gerhard Steinmetz for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting 994numerous bugs. 995 996@item 997Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements. 998 999@item 1000Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer. 1001 1002@item 1003Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements. 1004 1005@item 1006John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes. 1007 1008@item 1009Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, G++ contributions over the years and more 1010recently his vxworks contributions 1011 1012@item 1013Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement. 1014 1015@item 1016Zhendong Su for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting 1017numerous bugs. 1018 1019@item 1020Chengnian Sun for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting 1021numerous bugs. 1022 1023@item 1024Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms. 1025 1026@item 1027Ian Lance Taylor for the Go frontend, the initial mips16 and mips64 1028support, general configury hacking, fixincludes, etc. 1029 1030@item 1031Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU@. 1032 1033@item 1034Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux. 1035 1036@item 1037Paul Thomas for contributions to GNU Fortran. 1038 1039@item 1040Philipp Thomas for random bug fixes throughout the compiler 1041 1042@item 1043Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD@. 1044 1045@item 1046Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C 1047language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter. 1048 1049@item 1050Michael Tiemann for random bug fixes, the first instruction scheduler, 1051initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k 1052machine description work, delay slot scheduling. 1053 1054@item 1055Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin. 1056 1057@item 1058Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support. 1059 1060@item 1061Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL 1062definitions, and of the VAX machine description. 1063 1064@item 1065Daniel Towner and Hariharan Sandanagobalane contributed and 1066maintain the picoChip port. 1067 1068@item 1069Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java 1070contributions and libgcj maintainership. 1071 1072@item 1073Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor 1074types. 1075 1076@item 1077Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes. 1078 1079@item 1080Andy Vaught for the design and initial implementation of the GNU Fortran 1081front end. 1082 1083@item 1084Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their 1085associated configure steps. 1086 1087@item 1088Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports. 1089 1090@item 1091Andrew Waterman for contributing the RISC-V port, as well as maintaining it. 1092 1093@item 1094Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML 1095guidance and maintaining libstdc++. 1096 1097@item 1098Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo 1099in time for GCC 3.0. 1100 1101@item 1102Krister Walfridsson for random bug fixes. 1103 1104@item 1105Feng Wang for contributions to GNU Fortran. 1106 1107@item 1108Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files 1109work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time 1110header tree. Also, for starting and driving the @code{<regex>} effort. 1111 1112@item 1113John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator, 1114related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation, 1115value range propagation and other work, WE32k port. 1116 1117@item 1118Ulrich Weigand for work on the s390 port. 1119 1120@item 1121Janus Weil for contributions to GNU Fortran. 1122 1123@item 1124Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bug fixes. 1125 1126@item 1127Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ@. 1128 1129@item 1130Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io. 1131 1132@item 1133Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with 1134Classpath. 1135 1136@item 1137Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe. 1138 1139@item 1140Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port. 1141 1142@item 1143Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard 1144problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength 1145reduction and other loop optimizations. 1146 1147@item 1148Paul Woegerer and Tal Agmon for the CRX port. 1149 1150@item 1151Carlo Wood for various fixes. 1152 1153@item 1154Tom Wood for work on the m88k port. 1155 1156@item 1157Chung-Ju Wu for his work on the Andes NDS32 port. 1158 1159@item 1160Canqun Yang for work on GNU Fortran. 1161 1162@item 1163Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine 1164description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro). 1165 1166@item 1167Kevin Zachmann helped port GCC to the Tahoe. 1168 1169@item 1170Ayal Zaks for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS). 1171 1172@item 1173Qirun Zhang for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting 1174numerous bugs. 1175 1176@item 1177Xiaoqiang Zhang for work on GNU Fortran. 1178 1179@item 1180Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix. 1181 1182@end itemize 1183 1184The following people are recognized for their contributions to GNAT, 1185the Ada front end of GCC: 1186@itemize @bullet 1187@item 1188Bernard Banner 1189 1190@item 1191Romain Berrendonner 1192 1193@item 1194Geert Bosch 1195 1196@item 1197Emmanuel Briot 1198 1199@item 1200Joel Brobecker 1201 1202@item 1203Ben Brosgol 1204 1205@item 1206Vincent Celier 1207 1208@item 1209Arnaud Charlet 1210 1211@item 1212Chien Chieng 1213 1214@item 1215Cyrille Comar 1216 1217@item 1218Cyrille Crozes 1219 1220@item 1221Robert Dewar 1222 1223@item 1224Gary Dismukes 1225 1226@item 1227Robert Duff 1228 1229@item 1230Ed Falis 1231 1232@item 1233Ramon Fernandez 1234 1235@item 1236Sam Figueroa 1237 1238@item 1239Vasiliy Fofanov 1240 1241@item 1242Michael Friess 1243 1244@item 1245Franco Gasperoni 1246 1247@item 1248Ted Giering 1249 1250@item 1251Matthew Gingell 1252 1253@item 1254Laurent Guerby 1255 1256@item 1257Jerome Guitton 1258 1259@item 1260Olivier Hainque 1261 1262@item 1263Jerome Hugues 1264 1265@item 1266Hristian Kirtchev 1267 1268@item 1269Jerome Lambourg 1270 1271@item 1272Bruno Leclerc 1273 1274@item 1275Albert Lee 1276 1277@item 1278Sean McNeil 1279 1280@item 1281Javier Miranda 1282 1283@item 1284Laurent Nana 1285 1286@item 1287Pascal Obry 1288 1289@item 1290Dong-Ik Oh 1291 1292@item 1293Laurent Pautet 1294 1295@item 1296Brett Porter 1297 1298@item 1299Thomas Quinot 1300 1301@item 1302Nicolas Roche 1303 1304@item 1305Pat Rogers 1306 1307@item 1308Jose Ruiz 1309 1310@item 1311Douglas Rupp 1312 1313@item 1314Sergey Rybin 1315 1316@item 1317Gail Schenker 1318 1319@item 1320Ed Schonberg 1321 1322@item 1323Nicolas Setton 1324 1325@item 1326Samuel Tardieu 1327 1328@end itemize 1329 1330 1331The following people are recognized for their contributions of new 1332features, bug reports, testing and integration of classpath/libgcj for 1333GCC version 4.1: 1334@itemize @bullet 1335@item 1336Lillian Angel for @code{JTree} implementation and lots Free Swing 1337additions and bug fixes. 1338 1339@item 1340Wolfgang Baer for @code{GapContent} bug fixes. 1341 1342@item 1343Anthony Balkissoon for @code{JList}, Free Swing 1.5 updates and mouse event 1344fixes, lots of Free Swing work including @code{JTable} editing. 1345 1346@item 1347Stuart Ballard for RMI constant fixes. 1348 1349@item 1350Goffredo Baroncelli for @code{HTTPURLConnection} fixes. 1351 1352@item 1353Gary Benson for @code{MessageFormat} fixes. 1354 1355@item 1356Daniel Bonniot for @code{Serialization} fixes. 1357 1358@item 1359Chris Burdess for lots of gnu.xml and http protocol fixes, @code{StAX} 1360and @code{DOM xml:id} support. 1361 1362@item 1363Ka-Hing Cheung for @code{TreePath} and @code{TreeSelection} fixes. 1364 1365@item 1366Archie Cobbs for build fixes, VM interface updates, 1367@code{URLClassLoader} updates. 1368 1369@item 1370Kelley Cook for build fixes. 1371 1372@item 1373Martin Cordova for Suggestions for better @code{SocketTimeoutException}. 1374 1375@item 1376David Daney for @code{BitSet} bug fixes, @code{HttpURLConnection} 1377rewrite and improvements. 1378 1379@item 1380Thomas Fitzsimmons for lots of upgrades to the gtk+ AWT and Cairo 2D 1381support. Lots of imageio framework additions, lots of AWT and Free 1382Swing bug fixes. 1383 1384@item 1385Jeroen Frijters for @code{ClassLoader} and nio cleanups, serialization fixes, 1386better @code{Proxy} support, bug fixes and IKVM integration. 1387 1388@item 1389Santiago Gala for @code{AccessControlContext} fixes. 1390 1391@item 1392Nicolas Geoffray for @code{VMClassLoader} and @code{AccessController} 1393improvements. 1394 1395@item 1396David Gilbert for @code{basic} and @code{metal} icon and plaf support 1397and lots of documenting, Lots of Free Swing and metal theme 1398additions. @code{MetalIconFactory} implementation. 1399 1400@item 1401Anthony Green for @code{MIDI} framework, @code{ALSA} and @code{DSSI} 1402providers. 1403 1404@item 1405Andrew Haley for @code{Serialization} and @code{URLClassLoader} fixes, 1406gcj build speedups. 1407 1408@item 1409Kim Ho for @code{JFileChooser} implementation. 1410 1411@item 1412Andrew John Hughes for @code{Locale} and net fixes, URI RFC2986 1413updates, @code{Serialization} fixes, @code{Properties} XML support and 1414generic branch work, VMIntegration guide update. 1415 1416@item 1417Bastiaan Huisman for @code{TimeZone} bug fixing. 1418 1419@item 1420Andreas Jaeger for mprec updates. 1421 1422@item 1423Paul Jenner for better @option{-Werror} support. 1424 1425@item 1426Ito Kazumitsu for @code{NetworkInterface} implementation and updates. 1427 1428@item 1429Roman Kennke for @code{BoxLayout}, @code{GrayFilter} and 1430@code{SplitPane}, plus bug fixes all over. Lots of Free Swing work 1431including styled text. 1432 1433@item 1434Simon Kitching for @code{String} cleanups and optimization suggestions. 1435 1436@item 1437Michael Koch for configuration fixes, @code{Locale} updates, bug and 1438build fixes. 1439 1440@item 1441Guilhem Lavaux for configuration, thread and channel fixes and Kaffe 1442integration. JCL native @code{Pointer} updates. Logger bug fixes. 1443 1444@item 1445David Lichteblau for JCL support library global/local reference 1446cleanups. 1447 1448@item 1449Aaron Luchko for JDWP updates and documentation fixes. 1450 1451@item 1452Ziga Mahkovec for @code{Graphics2D} upgraded to Cairo 0.5 and new regex 1453features. 1454 1455@item 1456Sven de Marothy for BMP imageio support, CSS and @code{TextLayout} 1457fixes. @code{GtkImage} rewrite, 2D, awt, free swing and date/time fixes and 1458implementing the Qt4 peers. 1459 1460@item 1461Casey Marshall for crypto algorithm fixes, @code{FileChannel} lock, 1462@code{SystemLogger} and @code{FileHandler} rotate implementations, NIO 1463@code{FileChannel.map} support, security and policy updates. 1464 1465@item 1466Bryce McKinlay for RMI work. 1467 1468@item 1469Audrius Meskauskas for lots of Free Corba, RMI and HTML work plus 1470testing and documenting. 1471 1472@item 1473Kalle Olavi Niemitalo for build fixes. 1474 1475@item 1476Rainer Orth for build fixes. 1477 1478@item 1479Andrew Overholt for @code{File} locking fixes. 1480 1481@item 1482Ingo Proetel for @code{Image}, @code{Logger} and @code{URLClassLoader} 1483updates. 1484 1485@item 1486Olga Rodimina for @code{MenuSelectionManager} implementation. 1487 1488@item 1489Jan Roehrich for @code{BasicTreeUI} and @code{JTree} fixes. 1490 1491@item 1492Julian Scheid for documentation updates and gjdoc support. 1493 1494@item 1495Christian Schlichtherle for zip fixes and cleanups. 1496 1497@item 1498Robert Schuster for documentation updates and beans fixes, 1499@code{TreeNode} enumerations and @code{ActionCommand} and various 1500fixes, XML and URL, AWT and Free Swing bug fixes. 1501 1502@item 1503Keith Seitz for lots of JDWP work. 1504 1505@item 1506Christian Thalinger for 64-bit cleanups, Configuration and VM 1507interface fixes and @code{CACAO} integration, @code{fdlibm} updates. 1508 1509@item 1510Gael Thomas for @code{VMClassLoader} boot packages support suggestions. 1511 1512@item 1513Andreas Tobler for Darwin and Solaris testing and fixing, @code{Qt4} 1514support for Darwin/OS X, @code{Graphics2D} support, @code{gtk+} 1515updates. 1516 1517@item 1518Dalibor Topic for better @code{DEBUG} support, build cleanups and 1519Kaffe integration. @code{Qt4} build infrastructure, @code{SHA1PRNG} 1520and @code{GdkPixbugDecoder} updates. 1521 1522@item 1523Tom Tromey for Eclipse integration, generics work, lots of bug fixes 1524and gcj integration including coordinating The Big Merge. 1525 1526@item 1527Mark Wielaard for bug fixes, packaging and release management, 1528@code{Clipboard} implementation, system call interrupts and network 1529timeouts and @code{GdkPixpufDecoder} fixes. 1530 1531@end itemize 1532 1533 1534In addition to the above, all of which also contributed time and energy in 1535testing GCC, we would like to thank the following for their contributions 1536to testing: 1537 1538@itemize @bullet 1539@item 1540Michael Abd-El-Malek 1541 1542@item 1543Thomas Arend 1544 1545@item 1546Bonzo Armstrong 1547 1548@item 1549Steven Ashe 1550 1551@item 1552Chris Baldwin 1553 1554@item 1555David Billinghurst 1556 1557@item 1558Jim Blandy 1559 1560@item 1561Stephane Bortzmeyer 1562 1563@item 1564Horst von Brand 1565 1566@item 1567Frank Braun 1568 1569@item 1570Rodney Brown 1571 1572@item 1573Sidney Cadot 1574 1575@item 1576Bradford Castalia 1577 1578@item 1579Robert Clark 1580 1581@item 1582Jonathan Corbet 1583 1584@item 1585Ralph Doncaster 1586 1587@item 1588Richard Emberson 1589 1590@item 1591Levente Farkas 1592 1593@item 1594Graham Fawcett 1595 1596@item 1597Mark Fernyhough 1598 1599@item 1600Robert A. French 1601 1602@item 1603J@"orgen Freyh 1604 1605@item 1606Mark K. Gardner 1607 1608@item 1609Charles-Antoine Gauthier 1610 1611@item 1612Yung Shing Gene 1613 1614@item 1615David Gilbert 1616 1617@item 1618Simon Gornall 1619 1620@item 1621Fred Gray 1622 1623@item 1624John Griffin 1625 1626@item 1627Patrik Hagglund 1628 1629@item 1630Phil Hargett 1631 1632@item 1633Amancio Hasty 1634 1635@item 1636Takafumi Hayashi 1637 1638@item 1639Bryan W. Headley 1640 1641@item 1642Kevin B. Hendricks 1643 1644@item 1645Joep Jansen 1646 1647@item 1648Christian Joensson 1649 1650@item 1651Michel Kern 1652 1653@item 1654David Kidd 1655 1656@item 1657Tobias Kuipers 1658 1659@item 1660Anand Krishnaswamy 1661 1662@item 1663A. O. V. Le Blanc 1664 1665@item 1666llewelly 1667 1668@item 1669Damon Love 1670 1671@item 1672Brad Lucier 1673 1674@item 1675Matthias Klose 1676 1677@item 1678Martin Knoblauch 1679 1680@item 1681Rick Lutowski 1682 1683@item 1684Jesse Macnish 1685 1686@item 1687Stefan Morrell 1688 1689@item 1690Anon A. Mous 1691 1692@item 1693Matthias Mueller 1694 1695@item 1696Pekka Nikander 1697 1698@item 1699Rick Niles 1700 1701@item 1702Jon Olson 1703 1704@item 1705Magnus Persson 1706 1707@item 1708Chris Pollard 1709 1710@item 1711Richard Polton 1712 1713@item 1714Derk Reefman 1715 1716@item 1717David Rees 1718 1719@item 1720Paul Reilly 1721 1722@item 1723Tom Reilly 1724 1725@item 1726Torsten Rueger 1727 1728@item 1729Danny Sadinoff 1730 1731@item 1732Marc Schifer 1733 1734@item 1735Erik Schnetter 1736 1737@item 1738Wayne K. Schroll 1739 1740@item 1741David Schuler 1742 1743@item 1744Vin Shelton 1745 1746@item 1747Tim Souder 1748 1749@item 1750Adam Sulmicki 1751 1752@item 1753Bill Thorson 1754 1755@item 1756George Talbot 1757 1758@item 1759Pedro A. M. Vazquez 1760 1761@item 1762Gregory Warnes 1763 1764@item 1765Ian Watson 1766 1767@item 1768David E. Young 1769 1770@item 1771And many others 1772@end itemize 1773 1774And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, provides 1775feedback and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first 1776place. 1777