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@@ -549,11 +549,13 @@ Paul Dietz:
   analysis phase in the compiler.
 
 Brian Downing:
   analysis phase in the compiler.
 
 Brian Downing:

-  He fixed the linker problems for building SBCL on Mac OS X.
+  He fixed the linker problems for building SBCL on Mac OS X.  He
+  found and fixed the cause of backtraces failing for undefined
+  functions and assembly routines.

 
 Miles Egan:
   He creates binary packages of SBCL releases for Red Hat and other
 
 Miles Egan:
   He creates binary packages of SBCL releases for Red Hat and other

-  (which?) platforms
+  (which?) platforms.

 
 Nathan Froyd:
   He has fixed various bugs, and also done a lot of internal
 
 Nathan Froyd:
   He has fixed various bugs, and also done a lot of internal

@@ -564,6 +566,11 @@ Nathan Froyd:
   can delete a thousand lines of implement-ITERATE macrology from
   the codebase.)
 
   can delete a thousand lines of implement-ITERATE macrology from
   the codebase.)
 

+Bruno Haible:
+  He devised an accurate continued-fraction-based implementation of
+  RATIONALIZE, replacing a less-accurate version inherited from
+  primordial CMUCL.
+

 Matthias Hoelzl:
   He reported and fixed COMPILE's misbehavior on macros.
 
 Matthias Hoelzl:
   He reported and fixed COMPILE's misbehavior on macros.
 

@@ -608,6 +615,11 @@ Dave McDonald:
   He made a lot of progress toward getting SBCL to be bootstrappable
   under CLISP.
 
   He made a lot of progress toward getting SBCL to be bootstrappable
   under CLISP.
 

+Perry E. Metzger:
+  He ported SBCL to NetBSD with newer signals, building on the
+  work of Valtteri Vuorikoski.  He also provided various cleanups to
+  the C runtime.
+

 Gerd Moellman:
   He has made many cleanups and improvements, small and large, in
   CMU CL (mostly in PCL), which we have gratefully ported to SBCL.  Of
 Gerd Moellman:
   He has made many cleanups and improvements, small and large, in
   CMU CL (mostly in PCL), which we have gratefully ported to SBCL.  Of

@@ -615,6 +627,10 @@ Gerd Moellman:
   faster in the typical case than the old optimizations in PCL and
   less buggy.
 
   faster in the typical case than the old optimizations in PCL and
   less buggy.
 

+Timothy Moore:
+  He designed and implemented the original CMUCL linkage-table, on
+  which the SBCL implementation thereof is based.
+

 William ("Bill") Newman:
   He continued to maintain SBCL after the fork, increasing ANSI
   compliance, fixing bugs, regularizing the internals of the
 William ("Bill") Newman:
   He continued to maintain SBCL after the fork, increasing ANSI
   compliance, fixing bugs, regularizing the internals of the

@@ -627,6 +643,9 @@ Patrik Nordebo:
   He contributed to the port of SBCL to MacOS X, finding solutions for
   ABI and assembly syntax differences between Darwin and Linux.
 
   He contributed to the port of SBCL to MacOS X, finding solutions for
   ABI and assembly syntax differences between Darwin and Linux.
 

+Scott Parish:
+  He ported SBCL to OpenBSD-with-ELF.
+

 Kevin M. Rosenberg:
   He provided the ACL-style toplevel (sb-aclrepl contrib module), and
   a number of MOP-related bug reports.  He also creates the official
 Kevin M. Rosenberg:
   He provided the ACL-style toplevel (sb-aclrepl contrib module), and
   a number of MOP-related bug reports.  He also creates the official

@@ -647,6 +666,25 @@ Stig Erik Sandoe:
   He showed how to convince the GNU toolchain to build SBCL in a way
   which supports callbacks from C code into SBCL.
 
   He showed how to convince the GNU toolchain to build SBCL in a way
   which supports callbacks from C code into SBCL.
 

+Rudi Schlatte:
+  He ported Paul Foley's simple-streams implementation from cmucl,
+  converted the sbcl manual to Texinfo and wrote a documentation
+  string extractor that keeps function documentation in the manual
+  current.
+
+Nikodemus Siivola:
+  He provided build fixes, in particular to tame the SunOS toolchain,
+  implemented package locks, ported the linkage-table code from CMUCL,
+  reimplemented STEP, and has fixed many (stream-related and other) bugs 
+  besides.
+
+Juho Snellman:
+  He provided several performance enhancements, including a better hash
+  function on strings, removal of unneccessary bounds checks, and
+  multiple improvements to performance of common operations on
+  bignums.  He ported and enhanced the statistical profiler written by
+  Gerd Moellmann for CMU CL.
+

 Brian Spilsbury:
   He wrote Unicode-capable versions of SBCL's character, string, and
   stream types and operations on them.
 Brian Spilsbury:
   He wrote Unicode-capable versions of SBCL's character, string, and
   stream types and operations on them.

@@ -654,7 +692,7 @@ Brian Spilsbury:
 Raymond Toy:
   He continued to work on CMU CL after the SBCL fork, especially on
   floating point stuff. Various patches and fixes of his have been
 Raymond Toy:
   He continued to work on CMU CL after the SBCL fork, especially on
   floating point stuff. Various patches and fixes of his have been

-  ported to SBCL.
+  ported to SBCL, including his Sparc port of linkage-table.

 
 Peter Van Eynde:
   He wrestled the CLISP test suite into a mostly portable test suite
 
 Peter Van Eynde:
   He wrestled the CLISP test suite into a mostly portable test suite

@@ -692,5 +730,6 @@ RAM  Robert MacLachlan
 PRM  Pierre Mai
 WHN  William ("Bill") Newman
 CSR  Christophe Rhodes
 PRM  Pierre Mai
 WHN  William ("Bill") Newman
 CSR  Christophe Rhodes

+NS   Nikodemus Siivola

 PVE  Peter Van Eynde
 PW   Paul Werkowski
 PVE  Peter Van Eynde
 PW   Paul Werkowski