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diff --git a/REORG.TODO/manual/contrib.texi b/REORG.TODO/manual/contrib.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..cc52f60779 --- /dev/null +++ b/REORG.TODO/manual/contrib.texi @@ -0,0 +1,449 @@ +@node Contributors, Free Manuals, Platform, Top +@c %MENU% Who wrote what parts of the GNU C Library +@appendix Contributors to @theglibc{} + +@Theglibc{} 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 +file a bug in bugzilla if you have been left out or some of your +contributions are not listed. Please keep this list in alphabetical +order. + +@itemize @bullet + +@item +Nick Alcock for contributing fixes to allow @theglibc{} to be built with the +stack smashing protector enabled. + +@item +Ryan S. Arnold for his improvements for Linux on PowerPC and his direction +as FSF Project Steward for @theglibc{}. + +@item +Miles Bader for writing the @code{argp} argument-parsing package, and the +@code{argz}/@code{envz} interfaces. + +@item +Jeff Bailey for his maintainership of the HPPA architecture. + +@item +Petr Baudis for bug fixes and testing. + +@item +Stephen R. van den Berg for contributing a highly-optimized +@code{strstr} function. + +@item +Ondrej Bilka for contributing optimized string routines for x64 and various +fixes. + +@item +Eric Blake for adding O(n) implementations of @code{memmem}, +@code{strstr} and @code{strcasestr}. + +@item +Philip Blundell for the ports to Linux/ARM +(@code{arm-@var{ANYTHING}-linuxaout}) and ARM standalone +(@code{arm-@var{ANYTHING}-none}), as well as for parts of the IPv6 +support code. + +@item +Per Bothner for the implementation of the @code{libio} library which +is used to implement @code{stdio} functions. + +@item +Mark Brown for his direction as part of @theglibc{} steering +committee. + +@item +Thomas Bushnell for his contributions to Hurd. + +@item +Wilco Dijkstra for various fixes. + +@item +Liubov Dmitrieva for optimized string and math functions on x86-64 and +x86. + +@item +Ulrich Drepper for his many contributions in almost all parts of +@theglibc{}, including: +@itemize @bullet +@item internationalization support, including the @code{locale} and +@code{localedef} utilities. +@item Linux i386/ELF support +@item the @code{hsearch} and @code{drand48} families of functions, +reentrant @samp{@dots{}@code{_r}} versions of the @code{random} +family; System V shared memory and IPC support code +@item several highly-optimized string functions for i@var{x}86 +processors +@item many math functions +@item the character conversion functions (@code{iconv}) +@item the @code{ftw} and @code{nftw} functions +@item the floating-point printing function used by @code{printf} and friends +and the floating-point reading function used by @code{scanf}, +@code{strtod} and friends +@item the @code{catgets} support and the entire suite of multi-byte +and wide-character support functions (@file{wctype.h}, @file{wchar.h}, etc.). +@item versioning of objects on the symbol level +@end itemize + +@item +Wilco Dijkstra for various fixes. + +@item +Richard Earnshaw for continued support and fixes to the various ARM +machine files. + +@item +Paul Eggert for the @code{mktime} function and for his direction as +part of @theglibc{} steering committee. + +@item +Steve Ellcey for various fixes. + +@item +Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho for adding a new class of installed +headers for low-level platform-specific functionality and one such for +PowerPC and various fixes. + +@item +Mike Frysinger for his maintaining of the IA64 architecture and for +testing and bug fixing. + +@item +Martin Galvan for contributing gdb pretty printer support to glibc and adding +an initial set of pretty printers for structures in the POSIX Threads library. + +@item +Michael Glad for the DES encryption function @code{crypt} and related +functions. + +@item +Wolfram Gloger for contributing the memory allocation functions +functions @code{malloc}, @code{realloc} and @code{free} and related +code. + +@item +Torbj@"orn Granlund for fast implementations of many of the string +functions (@code{memcpy}, @code{strlen}, etc.). + +@item +Michael J. Haertel for writing the merge sort function @code{qsort} +and malloc checking functions like @code{mcheck}. + +@item +Bruno Haible for his improvements to the @code{iconv} and locale +implementations. + +@item +Richard Henderson for the port to Linux on Alpha +(@code{alpha-@var{anything}-linux}). + +@item +David Holsgrove for the port to Linux on MicroBlaze. + +@item +Daniel Jacobowitz for various fixes and enhancements. + +@item +Andreas Jaeger for the port to Linux on x86-64 +(@code{x86_64-@var{anything}-linux} and his work on Linux for MIPS +(@code{mips-@var{anything}-linux}), implementing the @file{ldconfig} +program, providing a test suite for the math library and for his +direction as part of @theglibc{} steering committee. + +@item +Aurelien Jarno for various fixes. + +@item +Rical Jasan for contributing various fixes in @theglibc{} manual. + +@item +Jakub Jelinek for implementing a number of checking functions and for +his direction as part of @theglibc{} steering committee. + +@item +Geoffrey Keating for the port to Linux on PowerPC +(@code{powerpc-@var{anything}-linux}). + +@item +Brendan Kehoe for contributing the port to the MIPS DECStation running +Ultrix 4 (@code{mips-dec-ultrix4}) and the port to the DEC Alpha +running OSF/1 (@code{alpha-dec-osf1}). + +@item +Mark Kettenis for implementing the @code{utmpx} interface and a utmp +daemon, and for a Hesiod NSS module. + +@item +Andi Kleen for implementing pthreads lock elision with TSX. + +@item +Kazumoto Kojima for the port of the Mach and Hurd code to the MIPS +architecture (@code{mips-@var{anything}-gnu}) and for his work on the +SH architecture. + +@item +Maxim Kuvyrkov for various fixes. + +@item +Andreas Krebbel for his work on Linux for s390 and s390x. + +@item +Thorsten Kukuk for providing an implementation for NIS (YP) and NIS+, +securelevel 0, 1 and 2 and for the implementation for a caching daemon +for NSS (@file{nscd}). + +@item +Jeff Law for various fixes. + +@item +Doug Lea for contributing the memory allocation functions +@code{malloc}, @code{realloc} and @code{free} and related +code. + +@item +Chris Leonard for various fixes and enhancements to localedata. + +@item +Stefan Liebler for various fixes. + +@item +Hongjiu Lu for providing the support for a Linux 32-bit runtime +environment under x86-64 (x32), for porting to Linux on IA64, for +improved string functions, a framework for testing IFUNC +implementations, and many bug fixes. + +@item +Luis Machado for optimized functions on PowerPC. + +@item +David J. MacKenzie for his contribution to the @code{getopt} +function and writing the @file{tar.h} header. + +@item +Greg McGary for adding runtime support for bounds checking. + +@item +Roland McGrath for writing most of @theglibc{} originally, for his +work on the Hurd port, his direction as part of @theglibc{} steering +committee and as FSF Project Steward for @theglibc{}, and for many bug +fixes and reviewing of contributions. + +@item +Allan McRae for various fixes. + +@item +Jason Merrill for the port to the Sequent Symmetry running Dynix +version 3 (@code{i386-sequent-bsd}). + +@item +Chris Metcalf for the port to Linux/Tile +(@code{tilegx-@var{anything}-linux} and +@code{tilepro-@var{anything}-linux}). + +@item +David Miller for contributing the port to Linux/Sparc +(@code{sparc*-@var{anything}-linux}). + +@item +Alan Modra for his improvements for Linux on PowerPC. + +@item +David Mosberger-Tang for contributing the port to Linux/Alpha +(@code{alpha-@var{anything}-linux}). + +@item +Stephen Moshier for implementing some 128-bit long double format math +functions. + +@item +Stephen Munroe for his port to Linux on PowerPC64 +(@code{powerpc64-@var{anything}-linux}) and for adding optimized +implementations for PowerPC. + +@item +Paul E. Murphy for various fixes on PowerPC. + +@item +Joseph S. Myers for numerous bug fixes for the libm functions, for +his maintainership of the ARM and MIPS architectures, improving +cross-compilation and cross-testing of @theglibc{}, expanded +coverage of conformtest, merging the ports/ subdirectory +into the @glibcadj{} main repository and his direction as FSF Project +Steward for @theglibc{}. + +@item +Szabolcs Nagy for various fixes. + +@item +Will Newton for contributing some optimized string functions and pointer +encryption support for ARM and various fixes. + +@item +Carlos O'Donell for his maintainership of the HPPA architecture, for +maintaining @theglibc{} web pages and wiki, for his direction as FSF +Project Steward for @theglibc{} and various bug fixes. + +@item +Alexandre Oliva for adding TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and +x86-64, for the am33 port, for completing the MIPS n64/n32/o32 multilib +port, for thread-safety, async-signal safety and async-cancellation +safety documentation in the manual, for his direction as FSF Project +Maintainer and for various fixes. + +@item +Paul Pluzhnikov for various fixes. + +@item +Marek Polacek for various fixes. + +@item +Siddhesh Poyarekar for various fixes, an implementation of a framework for +performance benchmarking of functions and implementing the tunables +infrastructure. + +@item +Tom Quinn for contributing the startup code to support SunOS shared +libraries and the port to SGI machines running Irix 4 +(@code{mips-sgi-irix4}). + +@item +Torvald Riegel for the implementation of new algorithms for semaphores, +pthread_rwlock and condition variables. + +@item +Maciej W. Rozycki for various fixes. + +@item +Pravin Satpute for writing sorting rules for some Indian languages. + +@item +Douglas C. Schmidt for writing the quick sort function used as a +fallback by @code{qsort}. + +@item +Will Schmidt for optimized string functions on PowerPC. + +@item +Andreas Schwab for the port to Linux/m68k +(@code{m68k-@var{anything}-linux}) and for his direction as part of +@theglibc{} steering committee. + +@item +Martin Schwidefsky for porting to Linux on s390 +(@code{s390-@var{anything}-linux}) and s390x +(@code{s390x-@var{anything}-linux}). + +@item +Thomas Schwinge for his contribution to Hurd and the SH architecture. + +@item +Andrew Senkevich for contributing vector math function implementations for x86. + +@item +Carlos Eduardo Seo for optimized functions on PowerPC. + +@item +Marcus Shawcroft for contributing the AArch64 port. + +@item +Franz Sirl for various fixes. + +@item +Jes Sorensen for porting to Linux on IA64 (@code{ia64-@var{anything}-linux}). + +@item +Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan for various fixes and optimizations on PowerPC. + +@item +Richard Stallman for his contribution to the @code{getopt} function. + +@item +Alfred M. Szmidt for various fixes. + +@item +Ian Lance Taylor for contributing the port to the MIPS DECStation +running Ultrix 4 (@code{mips-dec-ultrix4}). + +@item +Samuel Thibault for improving the Hurd port. + +@item +Tim Waugh for the implementation of the POSIX.2 @code{wordexp} +function family. + +@item +Zack Weinberg for the @code{explicit_bzero} implementation and for various +fixes. + +@item +Eric Youngdale for implementing versioning of objects on the symbol level. + +@item +Adhemerval Zanella for optimized functions on PowerPC and various fixes. + +@end itemize + +Some code in @theglibc{} comes from other projects and might be under +a different license: + +@itemize @bullet +@item +The timezone support code is derived from the public-domain timezone +package by Arthur David Olson and his many contributors. + +@item +Some of the support code for Mach is taken from Mach 3.0 by CMU; +the file @file{if_ppp.h} is also copyright by CMU, but under a different license; +see the file @file{LICENSES} for the text of the licenses. + +@item +The random number generation functions @code{random}, @code{srandom}, +@code{setstate} and @code{initstate}, which are also the basis for the +@code{rand} and @code{srand} functions, were written by Earl T. Cohen +for the University of California at Berkeley and are copyrighted by the +Regents of the University of California. They have undergone minor +changes to fit into @theglibc{} and to fit the @w{ISO C} standard, +but the functional code is Berkeley's.@refill + +@item +The Internet-related code (most of the @file{inet} subdirectory) and +several other miscellaneous functions and header files have been +included from 4.4 BSD with little or no modification. The copying +permission notice for this code can be found in the file @file{LICENSES} +in the source distribution. + +@item +The @code{getaddrinfo} and @code{getnameinfo} functions and supporting +code were written by Craig Metz; see the file @file{LICENSES} for +details on their licensing. + +@item +The DNS resolver code is taken directly from BIND 4.9.5, which +includes copyrighted code from UC Berkeley and from Digital Equipment +Corporation. See the file @file{LICENSES} for the text of the DEC license. + +@item +The code to support Sun RPC is taken verbatim from Sun's +@w{@sc{rpcsrc-4.0}} distribution; see the file @file{LICENSES} for the +text of the license. + +@item +The math functions are taken from @code{fdlibm-5.1} by Sun +Microsystems, as modified by J.T. Conklin, Ian Lance Taylor, +Ulrich Drepper, Andreas Schwab, and Roland McGrath. + +@item +Many of the IEEE 64-bit double precision math functions +(in the @file{sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64} subdirectory) come +from the IBM Accurate Mathematical Library, contributed by IBM. + +@item +Many of the IA64 math functions are taken from a collection of +``Highly Optimized Mathematical Functions for Itanium'' that Intel +makes available under a free license; see the file @file{LICENSES} for +details. + +@end itemize |