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Without them the +project would not have been nearly as successful as it has been. Any omissions +in this list are accidental. Feel free to contact +<a href="mailto:jlaw@ventanamicro.com">jlaw@ventanamicro.com</a> or <a href="mailto:gerald@pfeifer.com">gerald@pfeifer.com</a> if you have been left +out or some of your contributions are not listed. Please keep this list in +alphabetical order. +</p> +<ul> +<li> Analog Devices helped implement the support for complex data types +and iterators. + +</li><li> John David Anglin for threading-related fixes and improvements to +libstdc++-v3, and the HP-UX port. + +</li><li> James van Artsdalen wrote the code that makes efficient use of +the Intel 80387 register stack. + +</li><li> Abramo and Roberto Bagnara for the SysV68 Motorola 3300 Delta Series +port. + +</li><li> Alasdair Baird for various bug fixes. + +</li><li> Giovanni Bajo for analyzing lots of complicated C++ problem reports. + +</li><li> Peter Barada for his work to improve code generation for new +ColdFire cores. + +</li><li> Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end. + +</li><li> Godmar Back for his Java improvements and encouragement. + +</li><li> Scott Bambrough for help porting the Java compiler. + +</li><li> Wolfgang Bangerth for processing tons of bug reports. + +</li><li> Jon Beniston for his Microsoft Windows port of Java and port to Lattice Mico32. + +</li><li> Daniel Berlin for better DWARF 2 support, faster/better optimizations, +improved alias analysis, plus migrating GCC to Bugzilla. + +</li><li> Geoff Berry for his Java object serialization work and various patches. + +</li><li> David Binderman tests weekly snapshots of GCC trunk against Fedora Rawhide +for several architectures. + +</li><li> Laurynas Biveinis for memory management work and DJGPP port fixes. + +</li><li> Uros Bizjak for the implementation of x87 math built-in functions and +for various middle end and i386 back end improvements and bug fixes. + +</li><li> Eric Blake for helping to make GCJ and libgcj conform to the +specifications. + +</li><li> Janne Blomqvist for contributions to GNU Fortran. + +</li><li> Hans-J. Boehm for his garbage collector, IA-64 libffi port, and other +Java work. + +</li><li> Segher Boessenkool for helping maintain the PowerPC port and the +instruction combiner plus various contributions to the middle end. + +</li><li> Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other +miscellaneous clean-ups. + +</li><li> Steven Bosscher for integrating the GNU Fortran front end into GCC and for +contributing to the tree-ssa branch. + +</li><li> Eric Botcazou for fixing middle- and backend bugs left and right. + +</li><li> Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various +improvements to the infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill +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. + +</li><li> Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe. + +</li><li> Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions. + +</li><li> James Bowman for the FT32 port. + +</li><li> Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill. + +</li><li> Paul Brook for work on the ARM architecture and maintaining GNU Fortran. + +</li><li> Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems. + +</li><li> Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination. + +</li><li> Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes. + +</li><li> Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ. + +</li><li> Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee from its creation +to 2013. + +</li><li> Iain Buclaw for the D frontend. + +</li><li> Craig Burley for leadership of the G77 Fortran effort. + +</li><li> Tobias Burnus for contributions to GNU Fortran. + +</li><li> Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++. + +</li><li> Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to +the C++ strings, streambufs and formatted I/O, hard detective work on +the frustrating localization issues, and keeping up with the problem reports. + +</li><li> John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements, +previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc. + +</li><li> Stephane Carrez for 68HC11 and 68HC12 ports. + +</li><li> Steve Chamberlain for support for the Renesas SH and H8 processors +and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes. + +</li><li> Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ. + +</li><li> John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches. + +</li><li> Denis Chertykov for contributing and maintaining the AVR port, the first GCC port +for an 8-bit architecture. + +</li><li> Kito Cheng for his work on the RISC-V port, including bringing up the test +suite and maintenance. + +</li><li> Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions. + +</li><li> Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups. + +</li><li> Branko Cibej for more warning contributions. + +</li><li> The <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/">GNU Classpath project</a> +for all of their merged runtime code. + +</li><li> Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r, msp430 rx work, +<samp>--help</samp>, and other random hacking. + +</li><li> Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings. + +</li><li> R. Kelley Cook for making GCC buildable from a read-only directory as +well as other miscellaneous build process and documentation clean-ups. + +</li><li> Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bug fixing. + +</li><li> François-Xavier Coudert for contributions to GNU Fortran. + +</li><li> Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind +the scenes hacking. + +</li><li> Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1. + +</li><li> Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port. + +</li><li> Paul Dale for his work to add uClinux platform support to the +m68k backend. + +</li><li> Palmer Dabbelt for his work maintaining the RISC-V port. + +</li><li> Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs +that print a copy of their source. + +</li><li> Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++. + +</li><li> Bud Davis for work on the G77 and GNU Fortran compilers. + +</li><li> Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes. + +</li><li> Jerry DeLisle for contributions to GNU Fortran. + +</li><li> DJ Delorie for the DJGPP port, build and libiberty maintenance, +various bug fixes, and the M32C, MeP, MSP430, and RL78 ports. + +</li><li> Arnaud Desitter for helping to debug GNU Fortran. + +</li><li> Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to G++, contributions and +maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3, +including <code>valarray<></code>, <code>complex<></code>, maintaining the numerics library +(including that pesky <code><limits></code> :-) and keeping up-to-date anything +to do with numbers. + +</li><li> Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99 +support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime +libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and +maintaining <code>complex<></code>, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration +architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work. + +</li><li> François Dumont for his work on libstdc++-v3, especially maintaining and +improving <code>debug-mode</code> and associative and unordered containers. + +</li><li> Zdenek Dvorak for a new loop unroller and various fixes. + +</li><li> Michael Eager for his work on the Xilinx MicroBlaze port. + +</li><li> Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM. + +</li><li> David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work +with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes, +doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands, and for +ensuring GCC properly keeps working on AIX. + +</li><li> Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in +libstdc++. + +</li><li> Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery, +documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional +iostream bug fix, and work on shared library symbol versioning. + +</li><li> Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC. + +</li><li> Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++ +configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes. + +</li><li> Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams. + +</li><li> Christian Ehrhardt for dealing with bug reports. + +</li><li> Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its +own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf. + +</li><li> Revital Eres for work on the PowerPC 750CL port. + +</li><li> Marc Espie for OpenBSD support. + +</li><li> Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r, +and SPARC work. + +</li><li> Christopher Faylor for his work on the Cygwin port and for caring and +feeding the gcc.gnu.org box and saving its users tons of spam. + +</li><li> Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes. + +</li><li> Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portuguese translation of the GCJ FAQ. + +</li><li> Peter Gerwinski for various bug fixes and the Pascal front end. + +</li><li> Kaveh R. Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee, amazing +work to make ‘<samp>-W -Wall -W* -Werror</samp>’ useful, and +testing GCC on a plethora of platforms. Kaveh extends his gratitude to +the CAIP Center at Rutgers University for providing him with computing +resources to work on Free Software from the late 1980s to 2010. + +</li><li> John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java. + +</li><li> Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions. + +</li><li> Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite, +multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long +support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction +via the steering committee. + +</li><li> Jonny Grant for improvements to <code>collect2's</code> <samp>--help</samp> documentation. + +</li><li> Anthony Green for his <samp>-Os</samp> contributions, the moxie port, and +Java front end work. + +</li><li> Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug Java code. + +</li><li> Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11. + +</li><li> Richard Biener for his ongoing middle-end contributions and bug fixes +and for release management. + +</li><li> Ron Guilmette implemented the <code>protoize</code> and <code>unprotoize</code> +tools, the support for DWARF 1 symbolic debugging information, and much of +the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the +Intel 386 and 860 support. + +</li><li> Sumanth Gundapaneni for contributing the CR16 port. + +</li><li> Mostafa Hagog for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS) and post reload GCSE. + +</li><li> Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new +warnings and assorted bug fixes. + +</li><li> Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts. + +</li><li> Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300. + +</li><li> Michael Hayes for various thankless work he’s done trying to get +the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and +fixes. + +</li><li> Dara Hazeghi for wading through myriads of target-specific bug reports. + +</li><li> Kate Hedstrom for staking the G77 folks with an initial testsuite. + +</li><li> Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, ia32, and ia64 work, loop +opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we’ve ignored for +years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing +tons of patches. + +</li><li> Aldy Hernandez for working on the PowerPC port, SIMD support, and +various fixes. + +</li><li> Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed +the support for the Sony NEWS machine. + +</li><li> Kazu Hirata for caring and feeding the Renesas H8/300 port and various fixes. + +</li><li> Katherine Holcomb for work on GNU Fortran. + +</li><li> Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots +of testing and bug fixing, particularly of GCC configury code. + +</li><li> Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches. + +</li><li> Mat Hostetter for work on the TILE-Gx and TILEPro ports. + +</li><li> Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements. + +</li><li> Falk Hueffner for working on C and optimization bug reports. + +</li><li> Bernardo Innocenti for his m68k work, including merging of +ColdFire improvements and uClinux support. + +</li><li> Christian Iseli for various bug fixes. + +</li><li> Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking. + +</li><li> Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing. + +</li><li> Balaji V. Iyer for Cilk+ development and merging. + +</li><li> Andreas Jaeger for testing and benchmarking of GCC and various bug fixes. + +</li><li> Martin Jambor for his work on inter-procedural optimizations, the +switch conversion pass, and scalar replacement of aggregates. + +</li><li> Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well +as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build +system. + +</li><li> Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes, her quality improvement +sidetracks, and web page maintenance. + +</li><li> Kean Johnston for SCO OpenServer support and various fixes. + +</li><li> Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard +Kenner’s “toy” language. + +</li><li> Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation. + +</li><li> Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target. + +</li><li> Steven G. Kargl for work on GNU Fortran. + +</li><li> David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS. + +</li><li> Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bug fixes and optimizations of +strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes. + +</li><li> Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux +and his automatic regression tester. + +</li><li> Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with G++ and for a lot of early work +in just about every part of libstdc++. + +</li><li> Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the +MIL-STD-1750A. + +</li><li> Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research +Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC +Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for +instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC +processors including changes to common subexpression elimination, +strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition +code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer +elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the +head maintainer of GCC for several years. + +</li><li> Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and +maintaining binary releases for Microsoft Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++ +porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32. + +</li><li> Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support. + +</li><li> Mark Klein for PA improvements. + +</li><li> Thomas Koenig for various bug fixes. + +</li><li> Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code. + +</li><li> Benjamin Kosnik for his G++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort. + +</li><li> Maxim Kuvyrkov for contributions to the instruction scheduler, the Android +and m68k/Coldfire ports, and optimizations. + +</li><li> Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions +68020 system. + +</li><li> Asher Langton and Mike Kumbera for contributing Cray pointer support +to GNU Fortran, and for other GNU Fortran improvements. + +</li><li> Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the +entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases, +handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have +fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking. + +</li><li> Walter Lee for work on the TILE-Gx and TILEPro ports. + +</li><li> Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping +with analysis and improvements of x86 performance. + +</li><li> Victor Leikehman for work on GNU Fortran. + +</li><li> Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer. + +</li><li> Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for C++ improvements including template as template +parameter support, and many C++ fixes. + +</li><li> Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and +random work on the Java front end. + +</li><li> Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU. + +</li><li> Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and +patches. + +</li><li> Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc. + +</li><li> Chen Liqin for various S+core related fixes/improvement, and for +maintaining the S+core port. + +</li><li> Martin Liska for his work on identical code folding, the sanitizers, +HSA, general bug fixing and for running automated regression testing of GCC +and reporting numerous bugs. + +</li><li> Weiwen Liu for testing and various bug fixes. + +</li><li> Manuel López-Ibáñez for improving <samp>-Wconversion</samp> and +many other diagnostics fixes and improvements. + +</li><li> Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and +runtime libraries. + +</li><li> Martin von Löwis for internal consistency checking infrastructure, +various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of +assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges. + +</li><li> H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86 +bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working. + +</li><li> Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers. + +</li><li> Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system, +various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc. + +</li><li> 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, design and +implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler and +design and implementation of the integrated and local register allocators. + +</li><li> David Malcolm for his work on improving GCC diagnostics, JIT, self-tests +and unit testing. + +</li><li> Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu. + +</li><li> Jose E. Marchesi for contributing the eBPF backend and his ongoing +work maintaining it. + +</li><li> John Marino for contributing the DragonFly BSD port. + +</li><li> Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and +improvements, and string clean up and testsuites. + +</li><li> Michael Matz for his work on dominance tree discovery, the x86-64 port, +link-time optimization framework and general optimization improvements. + +</li><li> All of the Mauve project contributors for Java test code. + +</li><li> Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements. + +</li><li> Adam Megacz for his work on the Microsoft Windows port of GCJ. + +</li><li> Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS, +powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking. + +</li><li> Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading +the G++ effort. + +</li><li> Martin Michlmayr for testing GCC on several architectures using the +entire Debian archive. + +</li><li> David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of +SPARC work, improvements in jump.cc and interfacing with the Linux kernel +developers. + +</li><li> Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines. + +</li><li> Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bug fixes, and turning the +entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible. + +</li><li> Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of +C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements, +ISO C <code>restrict</code> support, and serving as release manager from 2000 +to 2011. + +</li><li> Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing. + +</li><li> Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran +maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast. + +</li><li> Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services +on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine—mail, web +services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and +the backs of envelopes would have been… difficult. + +</li><li> Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her +way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC +Linux kernels. + +</li><li> Mike Moreton for his various Java patches. + +</li><li> David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements, and for the initial +IA-64 port. + +</li><li> Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in +cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider +than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support. + +</li><li> Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues. + +</li><li> Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port. + +</li><li> Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO +C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation. + +</li><li> Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship +through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale +infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project +documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on +MT-safe string and shadow headers. + +</li><li> Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++. + +</li><li> Nathanael Nerode for cleaning up the configuration/build process. + +</li><li> NeXT, Inc. donated the front end that supports the Objective-C +language. + +</li><li> Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search +engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes. + +</li><li> Geoff Noer for his work on getting cygwin native builds working. + +</li><li> Vegard Nossum for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting +numerous bugs. + +</li><li> Diego Novillo for his work on Tree SSA, OpenMP, SPEC performance +tracking web pages, GIMPLE tuples, and assorted fixes. + +</li><li> David O’Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM, +FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure +improvements. + +</li><li> Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and +amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy. + +</li><li> Stefan Olsson for work on mt_alloc. + +</li><li> Melissa O’Neill for various NeXT fixes. + +</li><li> Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to GCC’s o32 +ABI support, improvements to dejagnu’s MIPS support, Java configuration +clean-ups and porting work, and maintaining the IRIX, Solaris 2, and +Tru64 UNIX ports. + +</li><li> Steven Pemberton for his contribution of <samp>enquire</samp> which allowed GCC to +determine various properties of the floating point unit and generate +<samp>float.h</samp> in older versions of GCC. + +</li><li> Hartmut Penner for work on the s390 port. + +</li><li> Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8. + +</li><li> Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and +continued Java maintainership. + +</li><li> Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port. + +</li><li> Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing +out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and +taking care of documentation maintenance in general. + +</li><li> Marek Polacek for his work on the C front end, the sanitizers and general +bug fixing. + +</li><li> Andrew Pinski for processing bug reports by the dozen. + +</li><li> Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime +libraries. + +</li><li> Jerry Quinn for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O. + +</li><li> Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various +cleanups in the compiler. + +</li><li> Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT. + +</li><li> David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC +port. + +</li><li> John Regehr for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting +numerous bugs. + +</li><li> Volker Reichelt for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting +numerous bugs and for keeping up with the problem reports. + +</li><li> Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload +hacking and developing and maintaining the Epiphany port. + +</li><li> Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD +port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical +threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems, +as well as keeping GCC properly working on FreeBSD and continuous testing. + +</li><li> Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports. + +</li><li> Ola Rönnerup for work on mt_alloc. + +</li><li> Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work. + +</li><li> David Ronis inspired and encouraged Craig to rewrite the G77 +documentation in texinfo format by contributing a first pass at a +translation of the old <samp>g77-0.5.16/f/DOC</samp> file. + +</li><li> Ken Rose for fixes to GCC’s delay slot filling code. + +</li><li> Ira Rosen for her contributions to the auto-vectorizer. + +</li><li> Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor. + +</li><li> Pétur Runólfsson for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O and +large file support in C++ filebuf. + +</li><li> Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits, +Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and “long long” support. + +</li><li> Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator. + +</li><li> Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300. + +</li><li> Roger Sayle for improvements to constant folding and GCC’s RTL optimizers +as well as for fixing numerous bugs. + +</li><li> Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ. + +</li><li> Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha. + +</li><li> William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support. + +</li><li> Tobias Schlüter for work on GNU Fortran. + +</li><li> Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major +work in the reload pass, serving as release manager for +GCC 2.95.3, and work on the Blackfin and C6X ports. + +</li><li> Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++—especially application +testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release +criteria—and libstdc++ header file tweaks. + +</li><li> Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches. + +</li><li> Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port. + +</li><li> Lars Segerlund for work on GNU Fortran. + +</li><li> Dodji Seketeli for numerous C++ bug fixes and debug info improvements. + +</li><li> Tim Shen for major work on <code><regex></code>. + +</li><li> Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS +contributions and RTEMS testing. + +</li><li> Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements. + +</li><li> Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some +code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant +folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports. + +</li><li> Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from +the LWG (thereby keeping GCC in line with updates from the ISO). + +</li><li> Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable +for GNU/Linux. + +</li><li> Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking. + +</li><li> Trevor Smigiel for contributing the SPU port. + +</li><li> Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines. + +</li><li> Danny Smith for his major efforts on the Mingw (and Cygwin) ports. +Retired from GCC maintainership August 2010, having mentored two +new maintainers into the role. + +</li><li> Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support. + +</li><li> Ed Smith-Rowland for his continuous work on libstdc++-v3, special functions, +<code><random></code>, and various improvements to C++11 features. + +</li><li> Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++ +testsuite entries. Also for providing the patch to G77 to add +rudimentary support for <code>INTEGER*1</code>, <code>INTEGER*2</code>, and +<code>LOGICAL*1</code>. + +</li><li> Zdenek Sojka for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting +numerous bugs. + +</li><li> Arseny Solokha for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting +numerous bugs. + +</li><li> Jayant Sonar for contributing the CR16 port. + +</li><li> Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique. + +</li><li> Richard Stallman, for writing the original GCC and launching the GNU project. + +</li><li> Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for +Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description. + +</li><li> Gerhard Steinmetz for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting +numerous bugs. + +</li><li> Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements. + +</li><li> Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer. + +</li><li> Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements. + +</li><li> John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes. + +</li><li> Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, G++ contributions over the years and more +recently his vxworks contributions + +</li><li> Jeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement. + +</li><li> Zhendong Su for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting +numerous bugs. + +</li><li> Chengnian Sun for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting +numerous bugs. + +</li><li> Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms. + +</li><li> Ian Lance Taylor for the Go frontend, the initial mips16 and mips64 +support, general configury hacking, fixincludes, etc. + +</li><li> Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU. + +</li><li> Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux. + +</li><li> Paul Thomas for contributions to GNU Fortran. + +</li><li> Philipp Thomas for random bug fixes throughout the compiler + +</li><li> Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD. + +</li><li> Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C +language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter. + +</li><li> Michael Tiemann for random bug fixes, the first instruction scheduler, +initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k +machine description work, delay slot scheduling. + +</li><li> Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin. + +</li><li> Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support. + +</li><li> Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL +definitions, and of the VAX machine description. + +</li><li> Daniel Towner and Hariharan Sandanagobalane contributed and +maintain the picoChip port. + +</li><li> Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java +contributions and libgcj maintainership. + +</li><li> Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor +types. + +</li><li> Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes. + +</li><li> Andy Vaught for the design and initial implementation of the GNU Fortran +front end. + +</li><li> Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their +associated configure steps. + +</li><li> Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports. + +</li><li> Andrew Waterman for contributing the RISC-V port, as well as maintaining it. + +</li><li> Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML +guidance and maintaining libstdc++. + +</li><li> Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo +in time for GCC 3.0. + +</li><li> Krister Walfridsson for random bug fixes. + +</li><li> Feng Wang for contributions to GNU Fortran. + +</li><li> Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files +work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time +header tree. Also, for starting and driving the <code><regex></code> effort. + +</li><li> John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator, +related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation, +value range propagation and other work, WE32k port. + +</li><li> Ulrich Weigand for work on the s390 port. + +</li><li> Janus Weil for contributions to GNU Fortran. + +</li><li> Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bug fixes. + +</li><li> Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ. + +</li><li> Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io. + +</li><li> Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with +Classpath. + +</li><li> Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe. + +</li><li> Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc. for the Xtensa port. + +</li><li> Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard +problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength +reduction and other loop optimizations. + +</li><li> Paul Woegerer and Tal Agmon for the CRX port. + +</li><li> Carlo Wood for various fixes. + +</li><li> Tom Wood for work on the m88k port. + +</li><li> Chung-Ju Wu for his work on the Andes NDS32 port. + +</li><li> Canqun Yang for work on GNU Fortran. + +</li><li> Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine +description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro). + +</li><li> Kevin Zachmann helped port GCC to the Tahoe. + +</li><li> Ayal Zaks for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS). + +</li><li> Qirun Zhang for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting +numerous bugs. + +</li><li> Xiaoqiang Zhang for work on GNU Fortran. + +</li><li> Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix. + +</li></ul> + +<p>The following people are recognized for their contributions to GNAT, +the Ada front end of GCC: +</p><ul> +<li> Bernard Banner + +</li><li> Romain Berrendonner + +</li><li> Geert Bosch + +</li><li> Emmanuel Briot + +</li><li> Joel Brobecker + +</li><li> Ben Brosgol + +</li><li> Vincent Celier + +</li><li> Arnaud Charlet + +</li><li> Chien Chieng + +</li><li> Cyrille Comar + +</li><li> Cyrille Crozes + +</li><li> Robert Dewar + +</li><li> Gary Dismukes + +</li><li> Robert Duff + +</li><li> Ed Falis + +</li><li> Ramon Fernandez + +</li><li> Sam Figueroa + +</li><li> Vasiliy Fofanov + +</li><li> Michael Friess + +</li><li> Franco Gasperoni + +</li><li> Ted Giering + +</li><li> Matthew Gingell + +</li><li> Laurent Guerby + +</li><li> Jerome Guitton + +</li><li> Olivier Hainque + +</li><li> Jerome Hugues + +</li><li> Hristian Kirtchev + +</li><li> Jerome Lambourg + +</li><li> Bruno Leclerc + +</li><li> Albert Lee + +</li><li> Sean McNeil + +</li><li> Javier Miranda + +</li><li> Laurent Nana + +</li><li> Pascal Obry + +</li><li> Dong-Ik Oh + +</li><li> Laurent Pautet + +</li><li> Brett Porter + +</li><li> Thomas Quinot + +</li><li> Nicolas Roche + +</li><li> Pat Rogers + +</li><li> Jose Ruiz + +</li><li> Douglas Rupp + +</li><li> Sergey Rybin + +</li><li> Gail Schenker + +</li><li> Ed Schonberg + +</li><li> Nicolas Setton + +</li><li> Samuel Tardieu + +</li></ul> + + +<p>The following people are recognized for their contributions of new +features, bug reports, testing and integration of classpath/libgcj for +GCC version 4.1: +</p><ul> +<li> Lillian Angel for <code>JTree</code> implementation and lots Free Swing +additions and bug fixes. + +</li><li> Wolfgang Baer for <code>GapContent</code> bug fixes. + +</li><li> Anthony Balkissoon for <code>JList</code>, Free Swing 1.5 updates and mouse event +fixes, lots of Free Swing work including <code>JTable</code> editing. + +</li><li> Stuart Ballard for RMI constant fixes. + +</li><li> Goffredo Baroncelli for <code>HTTPURLConnection</code> fixes. + +</li><li> Gary Benson for <code>MessageFormat</code> fixes. + +</li><li> Daniel Bonniot for <code>Serialization</code> fixes. + +</li><li> Chris Burdess for lots of gnu.xml and http protocol fixes, <code>StAX</code> +and <code>DOM xml:id</code> support. + +</li><li> Ka-Hing Cheung for <code>TreePath</code> and <code>TreeSelection</code> fixes. + +</li><li> Archie Cobbs for build fixes, VM interface updates, +<code>URLClassLoader</code> updates. + +</li><li> Kelley Cook for build fixes. + +</li><li> Martin Cordova for Suggestions for better <code>SocketTimeoutException</code>. + +</li><li> David Daney for <code>BitSet</code> bug fixes, <code>HttpURLConnection</code> +rewrite and improvements. + +</li><li> Thomas Fitzsimmons for lots of upgrades to the gtk+ AWT and Cairo 2D +support. Lots of imageio framework additions, lots of AWT and Free +Swing bug fixes. + +</li><li> Jeroen Frijters for <code>ClassLoader</code> and nio cleanups, serialization fixes, +better <code>Proxy</code> support, bug fixes and IKVM integration. + +</li><li> Santiago Gala for <code>AccessControlContext</code> fixes. + +</li><li> Nicolas Geoffray for <code>VMClassLoader</code> and <code>AccessController</code> +improvements. + +</li><li> David Gilbert for <code>basic</code> and <code>metal</code> icon and plaf support +and lots of documenting, Lots of Free Swing and metal theme +additions. <code>MetalIconFactory</code> implementation. + +</li><li> Anthony Green for <code>MIDI</code> framework, <code>ALSA</code> and <code>DSSI</code> +providers. + +</li><li> Andrew Haley for <code>Serialization</code> and <code>URLClassLoader</code> fixes, +gcj build speedups. + +</li><li> Kim Ho for <code>JFileChooser</code> implementation. + +</li><li> Andrew John Hughes for <code>Locale</code> and net fixes, URI RFC2986 +updates, <code>Serialization</code> fixes, <code>Properties</code> XML support and +generic branch work, VMIntegration guide update. + +</li><li> Bastiaan Huisman for <code>TimeZone</code> bug fixing. + +</li><li> Andreas Jaeger for mprec updates. + +</li><li> Paul Jenner for better <samp>-Werror</samp> support. + +</li><li> Ito Kazumitsu for <code>NetworkInterface</code> implementation and updates. + +</li><li> Roman Kennke for <code>BoxLayout</code>, <code>GrayFilter</code> and +<code>SplitPane</code>, plus bug fixes all over. Lots of Free Swing work +including styled text. + +</li><li> Simon Kitching for <code>String</code> cleanups and optimization suggestions. + +</li><li> Michael Koch for configuration fixes, <code>Locale</code> updates, bug and +build fixes. + +</li><li> Guilhem Lavaux for configuration, thread and channel fixes and Kaffe +integration. JCL native <code>Pointer</code> updates. Logger bug fixes. + +</li><li> David Lichteblau for JCL support library global/local reference +cleanups. + +</li><li> Aaron Luchko for JDWP updates and documentation fixes. + +</li><li> Ziga Mahkovec for <code>Graphics2D</code> upgraded to Cairo 0.5 and new regex +features. + +</li><li> Sven de Marothy for BMP imageio support, CSS and <code>TextLayout</code> +fixes. <code>GtkImage</code> rewrite, 2D, awt, free swing and date/time fixes and +implementing the Qt4 peers. + +</li><li> Casey Marshall for crypto algorithm fixes, <code>FileChannel</code> lock, +<code>SystemLogger</code> and <code>FileHandler</code> rotate implementations, NIO +<code>FileChannel.map</code> support, security and policy updates. + +</li><li> Bryce McKinlay for RMI work. + +</li><li> Audrius Meskauskas for lots of Free Corba, RMI and HTML work plus +testing and documenting. + +</li><li> Kalle Olavi Niemitalo for build fixes. + +</li><li> Rainer Orth for build fixes. + +</li><li> Andrew Overholt for <code>File</code> locking fixes. + +</li><li> Ingo Proetel for <code>Image</code>, <code>Logger</code> and <code>URLClassLoader</code> +updates. + +</li><li> Olga Rodimina for <code>MenuSelectionManager</code> implementation. + +</li><li> Jan Roehrich for <code>BasicTreeUI</code> and <code>JTree</code> fixes. + +</li><li> Julian Scheid for documentation updates and gjdoc support. + +</li><li> Christian Schlichtherle for zip fixes and cleanups. + +</li><li> Robert Schuster for documentation updates and beans fixes, +<code>TreeNode</code> enumerations and <code>ActionCommand</code> and various +fixes, XML and URL, AWT and Free Swing bug fixes. + +</li><li> Keith Seitz for lots of JDWP work. + +</li><li> Christian Thalinger for 64-bit cleanups, Configuration and VM +interface fixes and <code>CACAO</code> integration, <code>fdlibm</code> updates. + +</li><li> Gael Thomas for <code>VMClassLoader</code> boot packages support suggestions. + +</li><li> Andreas Tobler for Darwin and Solaris testing and fixing, <code>Qt4</code> +support for Darwin/OS X, <code>Graphics2D</code> support, <code>gtk+</code> +updates. + +</li><li> Dalibor Topic for better <code>DEBUG</code> support, build cleanups and +Kaffe integration. <code>Qt4</code> build infrastructure, <code>SHA1PRNG</code> +and <code>GdkPixbugDecoder</code> updates. + +</li><li> Tom Tromey for Eclipse integration, generics work, lots of bug fixes +and gcj integration including coordinating The Big Merge. + +</li><li> Mark Wielaard for bug fixes, packaging and release management, +<code>Clipboard</code> implementation, system call interrupts and network +timeouts and <code>GdkPixpufDecoder</code> fixes. + +</li></ul> + + +<p>In addition to the above, all of which also contributed time and energy in +testing GCC, we would like to thank the following for their contributions +to testing: +</p> +<ul> +<li> Michael Abd-El-Malek + +</li><li> Thomas Arend + +</li><li> Bonzo Armstrong + +</li><li> Steven Ashe + +</li><li> Chris Baldwin + +</li><li> David Billinghurst + +</li><li> Jim Blandy + +</li><li> Stephane Bortzmeyer + +</li><li> Horst von Brand + +</li><li> Frank Braun + +</li><li> Rodney Brown + +</li><li> Sidney Cadot + +</li><li> Bradford Castalia + +</li><li> Robert Clark + +</li><li> Jonathan Corbet + +</li><li> Ralph Doncaster + +</li><li> Richard Emberson + +</li><li> Levente Farkas + +</li><li> Graham Fawcett + +</li><li> Mark Fernyhough + +</li><li> Robert A. French + +</li><li> Jörgen Freyh + +</li><li> Mark K. Gardner + +</li><li> Charles-Antoine Gauthier + +</li><li> Yung Shing Gene + +</li><li> David Gilbert + +</li><li> Simon Gornall + +</li><li> Fred Gray + +</li><li> John Griffin + +</li><li> Patrik Hagglund + +</li><li> Phil Hargett + +</li><li> Amancio Hasty + +</li><li> Takafumi Hayashi + +</li><li> Bryan W. Headley + +</li><li> Kevin B. Hendricks + +</li><li> Joep Jansen + +</li><li> Christian Joensson + +</li><li> Michel Kern + +</li><li> David Kidd + +</li><li> Tobias Kuipers + +</li><li> Anand Krishnaswamy + +</li><li> A. O. V. Le Blanc + +</li><li> llewelly + +</li><li> Damon Love + +</li><li> Brad Lucier + +</li><li> Matthias Klose + +</li><li> Martin Knoblauch + +</li><li> Rick Lutowski + +</li><li> Jesse Macnish + +</li><li> Stefan Morrell + +</li><li> Anon A. Mous + +</li><li> Matthias Mueller + +</li><li> Pekka Nikander + +</li><li> Rick Niles + +</li><li> Jon Olson + +</li><li> Magnus Persson + +</li><li> Chris Pollard + +</li><li> Richard Polton + +</li><li> Derk Reefman + +</li><li> David Rees + +</li><li> Paul Reilly + +</li><li> Tom Reilly + +</li><li> Torsten Rueger + +</li><li> Danny Sadinoff + +</li><li> Marc Schifer + +</li><li> Erik Schnetter + +</li><li> Wayne K. Schroll + +</li><li> David Schuler + +</li><li> Vin Shelton + +</li><li> Tim Souder + +</li><li> Adam Sulmicki + +</li><li> Bill Thorson + +</li><li> George Talbot + +</li><li> Pedro A. M. Vazquez + +</li><li> Gregory Warnes + +</li><li> Ian Watson + +</li><li> David E. Young + +</li><li> And many others +</li></ul> + +<p>And finally we’d like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, provides +feedback and generally reminds us why we’re doing this work in the first +place. +</p> + +<hr> +<div class="header"> +<p> +Next: <a href="Option-Index.html#Option-Index" accesskey="n" rel="next">Option Index</a>, Previous: <a href="GNU-Free-Documentation-License.html#GNU-Free-Documentation-License" accesskey="p" rel="previous">GNU Free Documentation License</a>, Up: <a href="index.html#Top" accesskey="u" rel="up">Top</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Option-Index.html#Option-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> +</div> + + + +</body> +</html> |