The GCC project would like to thank its many contributors. 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 @email{law@@redhat.com} if you have been left out or some of your contributions are not listed. Please keep this list in alphabetical order. @itemize @bullet @item Analog Devices helped implement the support for complex data types and iterators. @item James van Artsdalen wrote the code that makes efficient use of the Intel 80387 register stack. @item Alasdair Baird for various bugfixes. @item Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front-end. @item Neil Booth for various work on cpplib. @item Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various improvements to our infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill and Java front end implementations. Initial implementations of cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++) maintainer. @item Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe. @item Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions. @item Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill. @item Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems. @item Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination. @item Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes. @item Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee. @item Craig Burley for leadership of the Fortran effort. @item John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements, previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc. @item Steve Chamberlain wrote the support for the Hitachi SH and H8 processors and the PicoJava processor. @item Scott Christley for his ObjC contributions. @item Branko Cibej for more warning contributions. @item Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r work, --help, and other random hacking. @item Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bugfixing. @item Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind the scenes hacking. @item Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1. @item Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port. @item Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs that print a copy of their source. @item Ulrich Drepper for his work on the C++ runtime libraries, glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99 support, CFG dumping support, etc. @item Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM. @item David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work with the RS6000/PowerPC port, and help cleaning up Haifa loop changes. @item Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements. @item Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf. @item Paul Eggert for random hacking all over gcc. @item Marc Espie for OpenBSD support. @item Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r, and SPARC work. @item Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes. @item Peter Gerwinski for various bugfixes and the Pascal front end. @item Anthony Green for his -Os contributions and Java front end work. @item Kaveh Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee and amazing work to make -W -Wall useful. @item Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions. @item 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. @item Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11. @item Ron Guilmette implemented the @code{protoize} and @code{unprotoize} tools, the support for Dwarf 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. @item Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new warnings and assorted bugfixes. @item Andrew Haley for his Java work. @item Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300. @item 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. @item Kate Hedstrom for staking the g77 folks with an initial testsuite. @item Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC and alpha work, loop opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for years, flow rewrite and lots of stuff I've forgotten. @item Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed the support for the Sony NEWS machine. @item Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots of testing an bugfixing, particularly of our configury code. @item Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches. @item Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements. @item Christian Iseli for various bugfixes. @item Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking. @item Lee Iverson for random fixes and mips testing. @item Andreas Jaeger for various fixes to the MIPS port @item Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations. @item J. Kean Johnston for OpenServer support. @item Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target. @item David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS. @item 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. @item Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support. @item Mark Klein for PA improvements. @item Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for Linux. @item Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with g++. @item Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the MIL-STD-1750A. @item Mumit Khan for various contributions to the cygwin and mingw32 ports and maintaining binary releases for Windows hosts. @item Thomas Koenig for various bugfixes. @item Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code. @item Benjamin Kosnik for his g++ work. @item Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer. @item Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions 68020 system. @item 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. @item Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping with analysis and improvements of x86 performance. @item Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for improvements to demangler and various c++ fixes. @item Warren Levy major work on libgjc (Java Runtime Library) and random work on the Java front-end. @item Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the Mips cpu. @item Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc. @item Weiwen Liu for testing and various bugfixes. @item Martin von Löwis for internal consistency checking infrastructure, and various C++ improvements including namespace support. @item Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and runtime libraries. @item H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the Linux ports working. @item Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system, various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc. @item Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu. @item Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking improvements to compile-time performance and overall knowledge and direction in the area of instruction scheduling. @item Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers. @item Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking. @item Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading the g++ effort. @item 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. @item David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements. @item 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. @item Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues. @item David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel developers. @item Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines. @item Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops and alias analysis improvements, ISO "restrict" support. @item Alan Modra for various Linux bits and testing. @item Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran maintainance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast. @item Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC Linux kernels. @item Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port. @item Joseph Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO C99 support. @item Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3. @item NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective C language. @item Hans-Peter Nilsson for improvements to the search engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes. @item Geoff Noer for this work on getting cygwin native builds working. @item Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and amazing testing work. @item Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to our o32 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, etc. @item Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes. @item Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8. @item Alexandre Petit-Bianco for his Java work. @item Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port. @item Gerald Pfeifer his direction via the steering committee, maintenance of the web pages and pointing out lots of problems we need to solve. @item Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the ObjC front end and runtime libraries. @item Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, mips ports and various cleanups in the compiler. @item David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC port. @item Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions and maintenance of libstdc++-v3, including valarray implementation and limits support. @item Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload hacking. @item Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work. @item Ken Rose for fixes to our delay slot filling code. @item Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor. @item Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port. @item Graham Stott. for various infrastructure improvements. @item Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator. @item Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300. @item Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha. @item William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support. @item Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major work in the reload pass. @item Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable for linux. @item Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS contributions and RTEMS testing. @item Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements. @item 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. @item Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking. @item Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support. @item Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines. @item Scott Snyder for various fixes. @item Richard Stallman, for writing the original gcc and launching the GNU project. @item Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description. @item Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements. @item Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer. @item Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, g++ contributions over the years and more recently his vxworks contributions @item Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms. @item Ian Lance Taylor for his mips16 work, general configury hacking, fixincludes, etc. @item Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper cpu. @item Michael Tiemann for random bugfixes the first instruction scheduler, initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, sparc and M88k machine description work, delay slot scheduling. @item Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for Linux. @item Philipp Thomas for random bugfixes throughout the compiler @item Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective C language. @item Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support. @item Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL definitions, and of the Vax machine description. @item Tom Tromey for internationalization support and his Java work. @item Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor types. @item Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports. @item Krister Walfridsson for random bugfixes. @item 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. @item Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe. @item Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bugfixes. @item 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. @item Carlo Wood for various fixes. @item Tom Wood for work on the m88k port. @item Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro). @item Kevin Zachmann helped ported GCC to the Tahoe. @end itemize We'd also like to thank the folks who have contributed time and energy in testing GCC: @itemize @bullet @item David Billinghurst @item Horst von Brand @item Rodney Brown @item Joe Buck @item Craig Burley @item Ulrich Drepper @item David Edelsohn @item Kaveh Ghazi @item Yung Shing Gene @item Richard Henderson @item Manfred Hollstein @item Kate Hedstrom @item Kamil Iskra @item Christian Joensson @item Jeff Law @item Robert Lipe @item Dave Love @item Damon Love @item H.J. Lu @item Mumit Khan @item Matthias Klose @item Martin Knoblauch @item Toon Moene @item David Miller @item Matthias Mueller @item Alexandre Oliva @item Richard Polton @item David Rees @item Peter Schmid @item David Schuler @item Vin Shelton @item Franz Sirl @item Mike Stump @item Carlo Wood @item And many others @end itemize And finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, submits bug reports and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.