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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.

Some projects operating under the GCC project maintain their own list
of contributors, such as
@uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/libstdc++/,the C++ library}.

@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.

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Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.

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Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.

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Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.

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Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.

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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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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, @option{--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.

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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
Paul Eggert for random hacking all over gcc.

@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
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.

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Peter Gerwinski for various bugfixes and the Pascal front end.

@item
Kaveh Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee and
amazing work to make @samp{-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
Anthony Green for his @option{-Os} contributions and Java front end work.

@item
Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.

@item
Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{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.

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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

@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
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
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
Mumit Khan for various contributions to the cygwin and mingw32 ports and
maintaining binary releases for Windows hosts.

@item
Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.

@item
Mark Klein for PA improvements.

@item
Thomas Koenig for various bugfixes.

@item
Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.

@item
Benjamin Kosnik for his g++ work.

@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
Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.

@item
Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for improvements to demangler and various c++ fixes.

@item
Warren Levy major work on libgcj (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
Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and
runtime libraries.

@item
Martin von L@"owis for internal consistency checking infrastructure,
and various C++ improvements including namespace support.

@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
Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.

@item
Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system,
various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.

@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
Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.

@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
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, alias analysis improvements,
ISO C @code{restrict} support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.0.

@item
Alan Modra for various Linux bits and testing.

@item
Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran
maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.

@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