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diff --git a/manual/maint.texi b/manual/maint.texi index 8d2610de2e..639852d1ab 100644 --- a/manual/maint.texi +++ b/manual/maint.texi @@ -856,12 +856,18 @@ multi-precision integer functions used in those functions are taken from GNU MP, which was contributed by @value{tege}. @item -The internationalization support in the library, and the support programs -@code{locale} and @code{localedef}, were written by Ulrich Drepper. -Ulrich Drepper adapted the support code for message catalogs +The internationalization support in the library, and the support +programs @code{locale} and @code{localedef}, were written by Ulrich +Drepper. Ulrich Drepper adapted the support code for message catalogs (@file{libintl.h}, etc.) from the GNU @code{gettext} package, which he -also wrote. He also contributed the entire suite of multi-byte and -wide-character support functions (@file{wctype.h}, @file{wchar.h}, etc.). +also wrote. He also contributed the @code{catgets} support and the +entire suite of multi-byte and wide-character support functions +(@file{wctype.h}, @file{wchar.h}, etc.). + +@item +The implementations of the @file{nsswitch.conf} mechanism and the files +and DNS backends for it were designed and written by Ulrich Drepper and +Roland McGrath, based on a backend interface defined by Peter Eriksson. @item The port to Linux i386/ELF (@code{i386-@var{anything}-linux}) was @@ -873,6 +879,14 @@ The port to Linux/m68k (@code{m68k-@var{anything}-linux}) was contributed by Andreas Schwab. @item +Richard Henderson contributed the ELF dynamic linking code and other +support for the Alpha processor. + +@item +David Mosberger-Tang contributed the port to Linux/Alpha +(@code{alpha-@var{anything}-linux}). + +@item Stephen R. van den Berg contributed a highly-optimized @code{strstr} function. @item @@ -883,7 +897,12 @@ several highly-optimized string functions for i@var{x}86 processors. @item The math functions are taken from @code{fdlibm-5.1} by Sun -Microsystems, as modified by J.T. Conklin and Ian Lance Taylor. +Microsystems, as modified by J.T. Conklin, Ian Lance Taylor, +Ulrich Drepper, Andreas Schwab, and Roland McGrath. + +@item +The @code{libio} library used to implement @code{stdio} functions on +some platforms was written by Per Bothner and modified by Ulrich Drepper. @item The Internet-related code (most of the @file{inet} subdirectory) and @@ -946,7 +965,7 @@ changes to fit into the GNU C library and to fit the ANSI C standard, but the functional code is Berkeley's.@refill @item -The Internet resolver code is taken directly from BIND 4.9.3, which is +The Internet resolver code is taken directly from BIND 4.9.4, which is under both the Berkeley copyright above and also: @quotation |