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- @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
- John David Anglin for various fixes to the hppa port.
- @item
- Albert ARIBAUD for Y2038 related fixes.
- @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
- Anton Blanchard for various fixes.
- @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
- Rogerio Alves Cardoso for various fixes to PowerPC.
- @item
- Paul Clarke for optimized functions on PowerPC.
- @item
- Palmer Dabbelt for contributing the port to Linux/RISC-V.
- @item
- DJ Delorie for maintenance of Linux/RISC-V, and various fixes.
- @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 writing most of the POSIX Threads Library originally.
- @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
- 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
- Mike FABIAN for automating Unicode updates, for updating the locale data
- for ISO 14651, for updating the library Unicode support, and for various
- locale updates and 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 passphrase-hashing 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
- Gabriel F. T. Gomes for his improvements for Linux on PowerPC and for
- implementing the IEEE 128-bit floating point type for PowerPC.
- @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}) and software floating-point support.
- @item
- David Holsgrove for the port to Linux on MicroBlaze.
- @item
- Leonhard Holz for various fixes.
- @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,
- software floating-point support and for
- his direction as part of @theglibc{} steering committee.
- @item
- Simon Josefsson for the @code{libidn} add-on.
- @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
- Akhilesh Kumar for various fixes to locales.
- @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
- Ilya Leoshkevich for various fixes.
- @item
- Dmitry V. Levin for various fixes.
- @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, for implementing Intel Control-Flow Enforcement
- Technology, and many bug fixes.
- @item
- Rafal Luzynski for contributing support for two grammatical forms of month
- names, and for various fixes to locales.
- @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}) and support for the generic Linux
- kernel syscall interface used by several newer ports.
- @item
- Jim Meyering for various fixes.
- @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
- Wainer dos Santos Moschetta for various fixes to powerpc.
- @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 and for implementing the IEEE
- 128-bit floating point type for PowerPC.
- @item
- Joseph S. Myers for numerous bug fixes for the libm functions, for
- his maintainership of the ARM and MIPS architectures and the math
- component, 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
- Marko Myllynen for various fixes.
- @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 MIPS fixes, support for ABSOLUTE symbols,
- and various fixes.
- @item
- Leonardo Sandoval 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}), for his direction as part of
- @theglibc{} steering committee, and for various bug fixes.
- @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
- Martin Sebor for various fixes.
- @item
- Andrew Senkevich for contributing vector math function implementations for x86.
- @item
- Carlos Eduardo Seo for optimized functions on PowerPC.
- @item
- Arjun Shankar for testing and bug fixing.
- @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
- and for implementing the IEEE 128-bit floating point type for PowerPC.
- @item
- Richard Stallman for his contribution to the @code{getopt} function.
- @item
- Alfred M. Szmidt for various fixes.
- @item
- Chung-Lin Tang for contributing the Nios II port.
- @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
- Pino Toscano for various fixes.
- @item
- Matt Turner for various fixes to the Alpha port.
- @item
- Tim Waugh for the implementation of the POSIX.2 @code{wordexp}
- function family.
- @item
- Ulrich Weigand for various fixes to the PowerPC64 and Arm ports.
- @item
- Florian Weimer for his maintainership of the network component, for handling
- of security issues, and for various fixes.
- @item
- Zack Weinberg for the @code{explicit_bzero} implementation and for various
- fixes.
- @item
- Mark Wielaard for various fixes.
- @item
- Eric Youngdale for implementing versioning of objects on the symbol level.
- @item
- Adhemerval Zanella for optimized functions on PowerPC, ISO C threads support
- 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 8.2.3-T5B, 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
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