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diff --git a/manual/contrib.texi b/manual/contrib.texi deleted file mode 100644 index cc52f60779..0000000000 --- a/manual/contrib.texi +++ /dev/null @@ -1,449 +0,0 @@ -@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 |