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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-@c Copyright (C) 1988,1989,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002
-@c Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c Copyright (C) 1988,1989,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,
+@c 2001,2002,2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c This is part of the GCC manual.
@c For copying conditions, see the file gcc.texi.
@@ -29,7 +29,10 @@ James van Artsdalen wrote the code that makes efficient use of
the Intel 80387 register stack.
@item
-Alasdair Baird for various bugfixes.
+Alasdair Baird for various bug fixes.
+
+@item
+Giovanni Bajo for analyzing lots of complicated C++ problem reports.
@item
Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end.
@@ -41,7 +44,14 @@ Godmar Back for his Java improvements and encouragement.
Scott Bambrough for help porting the Java compiler.
@item
-Jon Beniston for his Win32 port of Java.
+Wolfgang Bangerth for processing tons of bug reports.
+
+@item
+Jon Beniston for his Windows port of Java.
+
+@item
+Daniel Berlin for better DWARF2 support, faster/better optimizations,
+improved alias analysis, plus migrating us to Bugzilla.
@item
Geoff Berry for his Java object serialization work and various patches.
@@ -51,6 +61,9 @@ Eric Blake for helping to make GCJ and libgcj conform to the
specifications.
@item
+Segher Boessenkool for various fixes.
+
+@item
Hans-J. Boehm for his @uref{http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/,,
garbage collector}, IA-64 libffi port, and other Java work.
@@ -59,6 +72,9 @@ Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other
miscellaneous clean-ups.
@item
+Eric Botcazou for fixing middle- and backend bugs left and right.
+
+@item
Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various
improvements to our infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill
front end implementation. Initial implementations of
@@ -105,7 +121,10 @@ John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements,
previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.
@item
-Steve Chamberlain for support for the Hitachi SH and H8 processors
+Stephane Carrez for 68HC11 and 68HC12 ports.
+
+@item
+Steve Chamberlain for support for the Renesas SH and H8 processors
and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.
@item
@@ -124,7 +143,7 @@ Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.
Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.
@item
-The @uref{http://www.classpath.org,,GNU Classpath project}
+The @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/,,GNU Classpath project}
for all of their merged runtime code.
@item
@@ -158,6 +177,10 @@ Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.
Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes.
@item
+DJ Delorie for the DJGPP port, build and libiberty maintenance, and
+various bug fixes.
+
+@item
Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to g++, contributions and
maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3,
including valarray<>, complex<>, maintaining the numerics library
@@ -172,12 +195,16 @@ maintaining complex<>, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration
architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.
@item
+Zdenek Dvorak for a new loop unroller and various fixes.
+
+@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, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes, and
-for doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands.
+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.
@item
Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in
@@ -186,7 +213,7 @@ libstdc++.
@item
Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery,
documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional
-iostream bugfix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
+iostream bug fix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.
@item
Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC@.
@@ -199,6 +226,9 @@ configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.
Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.
@item
+Christian Ehrhardt for dealing with bug reports.
+
+@item
Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its
own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.
@@ -210,17 +240,22 @@ Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r,
and SPARC work.
@item
+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.
+
+@item
Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.
@item
Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portugese translation of the GCJ FAQ.
@item
-Peter Gerwinski for various bugfixes and the Pascal front end.
+Peter Gerwinski for various bug fixes and the Pascal front end.
@item
-Kaveh Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee and
-amazing work to make @samp{-W -Wall} useful.
+Kaveh Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee,
+amazing work to make @samp{-W -Wall} useful, and continuously testing
+GCC on a plethora of platforms.
@item
John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.
@@ -251,7 +286,7 @@ Intel 386 and 860 support.
@item
Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new
-warnings and assorted bugfixes.
+warnings and assorted bug fixes.
@item
Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.
@@ -265,21 +300,31 @@ the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and
fixes.
@item
+Dara Hazeghi for wading through myriads of target-specific bug reports.
+
+@item
Kate Hedstrom for staking the g77 folks with an initial testsuite.
@item
-Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, and ia32 work, loop
+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.
@item
+Aldy Hernandez for working on the PowerPC port, SIMD support, and
+various fixes.
+
+@item
Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed
the support for the Sony NEWS machine.
@item
+Kazu Hirata for caring and feeding the Renesas H8/300 port and various fixes.
+
+@item
Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots
-of testing an bugfixing, particularly of our configury code.
+of testing and bug fixing, particularly of our configury code.
@item
Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
@@ -288,7 +333,10 @@ Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.
Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.
@item
-Christian Iseli for various bugfixes.
+Falk Hueffner for working on C and optimization bug reports.
+
+@item
+Christian Iseli for various bug fixes.
@item
Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
@@ -297,7 +345,7 @@ Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.
Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.
@item
-Andreas Jaeger for various fixes to the MIPS port
+Andreas Jaeger for testing and benchmarking of GCC and various bug fixes.
@item
Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well
@@ -305,11 +353,11 @@ as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build
system.
@item
-Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes and for her quality improvement
-sidetracks.
+Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes, her quality improvement
+sidetracks, and web page maintenance.
@item
-J. Kean Johnston for OpenServer support.
+Kean Johnston for SCO OpenServer support and various fixes.
@item
Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard
@@ -325,7 +373,7 @@ Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.
David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS@.
@item
-Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bugfixes and optimizations of
+Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bug fixes and optimizations of
strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.
@item
@@ -363,7 +411,7 @@ Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.
Mark Klein for PA improvements.
@item
-Thomas Koenig for various bugfixes.
+Thomas Koenig for various bug fixes.
@item
Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.
@@ -389,7 +437,8 @@ with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.
Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.
@item
-Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for improvements to demangler and various c++ fixes.
+Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for C++ improvements including template as template
+parameter support, and many C++ fixes.
@item
Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and
@@ -406,7 +455,7 @@ patches.
Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.
@item
-Weiwen Liu for testing and various bugfixes.
+Weiwen Liu for testing and various bug fixes.
@item
Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
@@ -450,7 +499,7 @@ for Java test code.
Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.
@item
-Adam Megacz for his work on the Win32 port of GCJ.
+Adam Megacz for his work on the Windows port of GCJ.
@item
Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS,
@@ -469,7 +518,7 @@ developers.
Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.
@item
-Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bugfixes, and turning the
+Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bug fixes, and turning the
entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.
@item
@@ -527,6 +576,9 @@ MT-safe string and shadow headers.
Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.
@item
+Nathanael Nerode for cleaning up the configuration/build process.
+
+@item
NeXT, Inc.@: donated the front end that supports the Objective-C
language.
@@ -538,6 +590,10 @@ engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.
Geoff Noer for this work on getting cygwin native builds working.
@item
+Diego Novillo for his SPEC performance tracking web pages and assorted
+fixes in the middle end and various back ends.
+
+@item
David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM,
FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure
improvements.
@@ -555,6 +611,9 @@ ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration
clean-ups and porting work, etc.
@item
+Hartmut Penner for work on the s390 port.
+
+@item
Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.
@item
@@ -570,6 +629,9 @@ out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
taking care of documentation maintenance in general.
@item
+Andrew Pinski for processing bug reports by the dozen.
+
+@item
Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime
libraries.
@@ -585,13 +647,17 @@ David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
port.
@item
+Volker Reichelt for keeping up with the problem reports.
+
+@item
Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
hacking.
@item
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.
+threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems,
+as well as keeping GCC properly working on FreeBSD and continuous testing.
@item
Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.
@@ -616,6 +682,10 @@ Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.
Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.
@item
+Roger Sayle for improvements to constant folding and GCC's RTL optimizers
+as well as for fixing numerous bugs.
+
+@item
Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ.
@item
@@ -667,6 +737,9 @@ Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.
Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.
@item
+Danny Smith for his major efforts on the Mingw (and Cygwin) ports.
+
+@item
Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.
@item
@@ -716,7 +789,7 @@ Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU.
Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.
@item
-Philipp Thomas for random bugfixes throughout the compiler
+Philipp Thomas for random bug fixes throughout the compiler
@item
Jason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD.
@@ -726,7 +799,7 @@ Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C
language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.
@item
-Michael Tiemann for random bugfixes, the first instruction scheduler,
+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.
@@ -767,7 +840,7 @@ Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
in time for GCC 3.0.
@item
-Krister Walfridsson for random bugfixes.
+Krister Walfridsson for random bug fixes.
@item
Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files
@@ -780,7 +853,10 @@ related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation,
value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.
@item
-Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bugfixes.
+Ulrich Weigand for work on the s390 port.
+
+@item
+Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bug fixes.
@item
Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ.
@@ -821,9 +897,9 @@ Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.
@end itemize
-
-We'd also like to thank the folks who have contributed time and energy in
-testing GCC:
+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:
@itemize @bullet
@item
@@ -860,12 +936,6 @@ Frank Braun
Rodney Brown
@item
-Joe Buck
-
-@item
-Craig Burley
-
-@item
Sidney Cadot
@item
@@ -875,12 +945,6 @@ Bradford Castalia
Ralph Doncaster
@item
-Ulrich Drepper
-
-@item
-David Edelsohn
-
-@item
Richard Emberson
@item
@@ -905,9 +969,6 @@ Charles-Antoine Gauthier
Yung Shing Gene
@item
-Kaveh Ghazi
-
-@item
David Gilbert
@item
@@ -932,21 +993,9 @@ Amancio Hasty
Bryan W. Headley
@item
-Kate Hedstrom
-
-@item
-Richard Henderson
-
-@item
Kevin B. Hendricks
@item
-Manfred Hollstein
-
-@item
-Kamil Iskra
-
-@item
Joep Jansen
@item
@@ -962,30 +1011,15 @@ Tobias Kuipers
Anand Krishnaswamy
@item
-Jeff Law
-
-@item
-Robert Lipe
-
-@item
llewelly
@item
Damon Love
@item
-Dave Love
-
-@item
-H.J. Lu
-
-@item
Brad Lucier
@item
-Mumit Khan
-
-@item
Matthias Klose
@item
@@ -995,12 +1029,6 @@ Martin Knoblauch
Jesse Macnish
@item
-David Miller
-
-@item
-Toon Moene
-
-@item
Stefan Morrell
@item
@@ -1013,9 +1041,6 @@ Matthias Mueller
Pekka Nikander
@item
-Alexandre Oliva
-
-@item
Jon Olson
@item
@@ -1037,9 +1062,6 @@ Paul Reilly
Tom Reilly
@item
-Loren J. Rittle
-
-@item
Torsten Rueger
@item
@@ -1049,24 +1071,15 @@ Danny Sadinoff
Marc Schifer
@item
-Peter Schmid
-
-@item
David Schuler
@item
Vin Shelton
@item
-Franz Sirl
-
-@item
Tim Souder
@item
-Mike Stump
-
-@item
Adam Sulmicki
@item
@@ -1076,9 +1089,6 @@ George Talbot
Gregory Warnes
@item
-Carlo Wood
-
-@item
David E. Young
@item