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@c Copyright (C) 1988,1989,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002
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@c Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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@c This is part of the GCC manual.
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@c For copying conditions, see the file gcc.texi.
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@node Contributors
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@unnumbered Contributors to GCC
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@cindex contributors
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The GCC project would like to thank its many contributors. Without them the
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project would not have been nearly as successful as it has been. Any omissions
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in this list are accidental. Feel free to contact
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@email{law@@redhat.com} if you have been left out
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or some of your contributions are not listed. Please keep this list in
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alphabetical order.
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Some projects operating under the GCC project maintain their own list
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of contributors, such as
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@uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/libstdc++/,the C++ library}.
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@itemize @bullet
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Analog Devices helped implement the support for complex data types
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and iterators.
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John David Anglin for improvements to libstdc++-v3 and the HP-UX port.
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@item
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James van Artsdalen wrote the code that makes efficient use of
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the Intel 80387 register stack.
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Alasdair Baird for various bugfixes.
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Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end.
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@item
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Neil Booth for various work on cpplib.
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Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
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improvements to our infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
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and Java front end implementations. Initial implementations of
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cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library
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(libg++) maintainer.
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@item
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Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
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@item
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Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.
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@item
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Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.
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@item
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Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.
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@item
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Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.
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@item
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Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.
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Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.
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Craig Burley for leadership of the Fortran effort.
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Paolo Carlini for his work on libstdc++-v3.
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@item
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John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
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previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
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@item
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Steve Chamberlain wrote the support for the Hitachi SH and H8 processors
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and the PicoJava processor.
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@item
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Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.
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@item
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Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
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@item
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Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, @option{--help}, and other random
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hacking.
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@item
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Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing.
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Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind
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the scenes hacking.
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Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.
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Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.
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Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs
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that print a copy of their source.
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Ulrich Drepper for his work on the C++ runtime libraries, glibc,
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testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99 support, CFG dumping support, etc.
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Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM@.
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David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee,
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ongoing work with the RS6000/PowerPC port, and help cleaning up Haifa
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loop changes.
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Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
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Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements.
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Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
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own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
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Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.
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@item
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Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
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and SPARC work.
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Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
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Peter Gerwinski for various bugfixes and the Pascal front end.
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Kaveh Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee and
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amazing work to make @samp{-W -Wall} useful.
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Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.
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Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite,
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multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long
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support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction
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via the steering committee.
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Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work.
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Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.
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Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
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tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
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the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
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Intel 386 and 860 support.
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Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
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warnings and assorted bugfixes.
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Andrew Haley for his Java work.
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Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
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Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get
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the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
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fixes.
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Kate Hedstrom for staking the g77 folks with an initial testsuite.
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Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, and ia32 work, loop
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opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for
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years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing
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tons of patches.
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Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
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the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
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Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
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of testing an bugfixing, particularly of our configury code.
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Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
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Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
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Christian Iseli for various bugfixes.
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Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
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Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
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Andreas Jaeger for various fixes to the MIPS port
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Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
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as lots of bug fixes and test cases.
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Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes and for her quality improvement
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sidetracks.
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J. Kean Johnston for OpenServer support.
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Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
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David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
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Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux
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and his automatic regression tester.
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Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with g++.
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Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the
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MIL-STD-1750A@.
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Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research
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Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC
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Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for
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instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC
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processors including changes to common subexpression elimination,
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strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition
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code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer
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elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the
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head maintainer of GCC for several years.
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Mumit Khan for various contributions to the cygwin and mingw32 ports and
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maintaining binary releases for Windows hosts.
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Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
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Mark Klein for PA improvements.
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Thomas Koenig for various bugfixes.
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Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
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Benjamin Kosnik for his g++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.
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Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions
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68020 system.
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Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the
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entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases,
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handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have
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fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.
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Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping
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with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
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Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
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Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for improvements to demangler and various c++ fixes.
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Warren Levy major work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and random
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work on the Java front end.
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Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU.
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Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
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Weiwen Liu for testing and various bugfixes.
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Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
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runtime libraries.
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Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
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and various C++ improvements including namespace support.
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H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86
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bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.
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Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.
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Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
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various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.
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Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC
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hacking improvements to compile-time performance and overall knowledge
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and direction in the area of instruction scheduling.
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Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.
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Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
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powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.
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Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading
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the g++ effort.
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David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of
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SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel
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developers.
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Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
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Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of
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C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements,
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ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.x.
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Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.
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Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
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maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.
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Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services
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on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine---mail, web
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services, ftp services, etc etc.
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Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
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way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC
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Linux kernels.
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David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements.
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Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in
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cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
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than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.
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Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.
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Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.
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Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO
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C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.
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Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3.
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NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
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language.
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Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search
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engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
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Geoff Noer for this work on getting cygwin native builds working.
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David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
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FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
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improvements.
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Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
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amazing testing work.
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Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.
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Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to our o32
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ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, etc.
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Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
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Alexandre Petit-Bianco for his Java work.
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Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.
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Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing
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out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
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taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
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Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
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libraries.
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Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various
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cleanups in the compiler.
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David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
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port.
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Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions and maintenance of libstdc++-v3,
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including valarray implementation and limits support.
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Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
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hacking.
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Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 and the FreeBSD port.
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Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
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Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.
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Ken Rose for fixes to our delay slot filling code.
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Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.
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Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
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Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
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Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.
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William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.
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Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major
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work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
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GCC 2.95.3.
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Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.
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Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
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contributions and RTEMS testing.
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Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.
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Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some
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code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
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folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.
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Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable
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for linux.
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Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
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Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
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Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
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Scott Snyder for various fixes.
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Richard Stallman, for writing the original gcc and launching the GNU project.
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Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for
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Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.
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Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.
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Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.
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Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.
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Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, g++ contributions over the years and more
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recently his vxworks contributions
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Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.
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Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking,
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fixincludes, etc.
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Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU.
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Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
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Philipp Thomas for random bugfixes throughout the compiler
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Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
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language.
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Michael Tiemann for random bugfixes, the first instruction scheduler,
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initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k
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machine description work, delay slot scheduling.
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Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.
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Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL
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definitions, and of the VAX machine description.
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Tom Tromey for internationalization support and his Java work.
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Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor
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types.
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Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.
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Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
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in time for GCC 3.0.
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Krister Walfridsson for random bugfixes.
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John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator,
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related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
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value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
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Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bugfixes.
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Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.
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Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc.@: for the Xtensa port.
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Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard
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problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength
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reduction and other loop optimizations.
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Carlo Wood for various fixes.
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Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.
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Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine
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description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).
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Kevin Zachmann helped ported GCC to the Tahoe.
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We'd also like to thank the folks who have contributed time and energy in
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David Billinghurst
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Horst von Brand
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Rodney Brown
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Joe Buck
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Craig Burley
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Ulrich Drepper
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David Edelsohn
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Yung Shing Gene
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Kaveh Ghazi
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Kate Hedstrom
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Richard Henderson
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Manfred Hollstein
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Kamil Iskra
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Christian Joensson
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Jeff Law
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Robert Lipe
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Damon Love
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Dave Love
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H.J. Lu
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Brad Lucier
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Mumit Khan
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Matthias Klose
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Martin Knoblauch
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David Miller
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Toon Moene
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Matthias Mueller
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Alexandre Oliva
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Richard Polton
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David Rees
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Loren J. Rittle
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Peter Schmid
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David Schuler
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Vin Shelton
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Franz Sirl
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Mike Stump
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Carlo Wood
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And many others
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@end itemize
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And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug
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reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.
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