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services, ftp services, etc etc.

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Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her
way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC 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
cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider
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
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
language.

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Hans-Peter Nilsson for improvements to the search 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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Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and
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
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
out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and
taking care of documentation maintenance in general.

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Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the ObjC front end and runtime libraries.

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Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, mips ports and various
cleanups in the compiler.

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David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC
port.
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Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions and maintenance of libstdc++-v3,
including valarray implementation and limits support.

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Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload
hacking.

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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
work in the reload pass as well a serving as release manager for
GCC 2.95.3.

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Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.

@item
Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS
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
code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant
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
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
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
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,
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 Linux.

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Philipp Thomas for random bugfixes throughout the compiler

@item
Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective C
language.

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Michael Tiemann for random bugfixes the first instruction scheduler,
initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, sparc and M88k
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
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
types.

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Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.

@item
Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo
in time for GCC 3.0.

@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.

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Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bugfixes.

@item
Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.

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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.

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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
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
testing GCC:

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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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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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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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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.