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@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ Also, Christopher Hoover and William Lott wrote compiler/generic/vm-macs.lisp
 to centralize information about machine-dependent macros and constants.
 
 Sean Hallgren is credited with most of the Alpha backend.  Julian
 to centralize information about machine-dependent macros and constants.
 
 Sean Hallgren is credited with most of the Alpha backend.  Julian

-Dolby created the CMU CL Alpha/linux port. Douglas Crosher added
+Dolby created the CMU CL Alpha/Linux port. Douglas Crosher added

 complex-float support.
 
 The original PPC backend was the work of Gary Byers.  Some bug fixes
 complex-float support.
 
 The original PPC backend was the work of Gary Byers.  Some bug fixes

@@ -508,12 +508,18 @@ Martin Atzmueller:
 Daniel Barlow:
   He made SBCL play nicely with ILISP. He figured out how to get the
   CMU CL dynamic object file loading code to work under SBCL. He
 Daniel Barlow:
   He made SBCL play nicely with ILISP. He figured out how to get the
   CMU CL dynamic object file loading code to work under SBCL. He

-  ported CMU CL's support for Alpha and PPC CPUs to SBCL. He wrote
-  code (e.g. grovel_headers.c and stat_wrapper stuff) to handle
-  machine-dependence and OS-dependence automatically, reducing
-  the amount of hand-tweaking required to keep ports synchronized.
-  He's also provided support for SBCL (as well as for free
-  Common Lisp in general) through his CLiki website.
+  ported CMU CL's support for Alpha and PPC CPUs to SBCL, and then
+  continued to improve the ports. He wrote code (e.g. grovel_headers.c
+  and stat_wrapper stuff) to handle machine-dependence and
+  OS-dependence automatically, reducing the amount of hand-tweaking
+  required to keep ports synchronized. He's also provided support
+  for SBCL (as well as for free Common Lisp in general) through
+  his CLiki website.
+
+Robert E. Brown:
+  He has reported various bugs and submitted several patches, 
+  especially improving removing gratuitous efficiencies in the
+  standard library.

 
 Cadabra, Inc. (later merged into GoTo.com):
   They hired Bill Newman to do some consulting for them,
 
 Cadabra, Inc. (later merged into GoTo.com):
   They hired Bill Newman to do some consulting for them,

@@ -530,23 +536,38 @@ Douglas Crosher:
 
 Alexey Dejneka:
   He has fixed many, many bugs. There's no single summary theme, but
 
 Alexey Dejneka:
   He has fixed many, many bugs. There's no single summary theme, but

-  he's fixed about a dozen different bugs in LOOP alone, and it appears
-  that a lot of his fixes there and elsewhere reflect systematic
-  public-spiritedness, fixing bugs as they show up in sbcl-devel or as
-  archived in the BUGS file.
+  he's fixed about a dozen different bugs in LOOP alone, and more
+  in the compiler itself. It appears that a lot of his fixes there
+  and elsewhere reflect systematic public-spiritedness, fixing bugs
+  as they show up in sbcl-devel or as archived in the BUGS file.
+
+Paul Dietz
+  He is in the process of writing a comprehensive test suite for the
+  requirements of the ANSI Common Lisp standard.  Already, at the
+  halfway stage, it has caught many tens of bugs in SBCL, and provided
+  simple test cases for them.

 
 Nathan Froyd:
   He has fixed various bugs, and also done a lot of internal
   cleanup, not visible at the user level but important for
   maintenance. (E.g. converting the PCL code to use LOOP instead
   of the old weird pre-ANSI ITERATE macro so that the code can be
 
 Nathan Froyd:
   He has fixed various bugs, and also done a lot of internal
   cleanup, not visible at the user level but important for
   maintenance. (E.g. converting the PCL code to use LOOP instead
   of the old weird pre-ANSI ITERATE macro so that the code can be

-  read without being an expert in ancient languages and so that
-  can delete a thousand lines of implement-ITERATE macrology.)
+  read without being an expert in ancient languages and so that we
+  can delete a thousand lines of implement-ITERATE macrology from
+  the codebase.)
+
+Matthias Hoelzl:
+  He reported and fixed COMPILE's misbehavior on macros.
+
+Espen S Johnsen:
+  He provided an ANSI-compliant version of CHANGE-CLASS for PCL.
+
+Frederik Kuivinen:
+  He showed how to implement the DEBUG-RETURN functionality.

 
 Arthur Lemmens:
 
 Arthur Lemmens:

-  He found and fixed a number of SBCL bugs while partially porting SBCL
-  to bootstrap under <some other Common Lisp system, which could
-  probably be found in the sbcl-devel archives>.
+  He found and fixed a number of SBCL bugs while partially porting
+  SBCL to bootstrap under Lispworks for Windows

 
 Robert MacLachlan:
   He has continued to answer questions about, and contribute fixes to, 
 
 Robert MacLachlan:
   He has continued to answer questions about, and contribute fixes to, 

@@ -554,10 +575,29 @@ Robert MacLachlan:
   problems, has been invaluable to the CMU CL project and, by
   porting, invaluable to the SBCL project as well.
 
   problems, has been invaluable to the CMU CL project and, by
   porting, invaluable to the SBCL project as well.
 

+Pierre Mai:
+  He has continued to work on CMU CL since the SBCL fork, and also
+  patched code to SBCL to enable dynamic loading of object files 
+  under OpenBSD.
+
+Eric Marsden:
+  Some of his fixes to CMU CL since the SBCL fork have been ported
+  to SBCL.
+
+Antonio Martinez-Shotton:
+  He has contributed a number of bug fixes and bug reports to SBCL.
+

 Dave McDonald:
   He made a lot of progress toward getting SBCL to be bootstrappable
   under CLISP.
 
 Dave McDonald:
   He made a lot of progress toward getting SBCL to be bootstrappable
   under CLISP.
 

+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
+  particular note is his ctor MAKE-INSTANCE optimization, which is both
+  faster in the typical case than the old optimizations in PCL and
+  less buggy.
+

 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

@@ -566,11 +606,17 @@ William ("Bill") Newman:
   updating documentation, and even, for better or worse, getting
   rid of various functionality (e.g. the byte interpreter).
 
   updating documentation, and even, for better or worse, getting
   rid of various functionality (e.g. the byte interpreter).
 

+Kevin M. Rosenberg:
+  He provided the ACL-style toplevel, and a number of MOP-related bug
+  reports.
+

 Christophe Rhodes:
 Christophe Rhodes:

-  He has done various low-level work on SBCL, especially for the
-  SPARC port (and for CPU-architecture-neutral things motivated by
-  it, like *BACKEND-FEATURES*). He's also contributed miscellaneous
-  bug fixes.
+  He ported SBCL to SPARC, made various port-related and SPARC-related
+  changes (like *BACKEND-SUBFEATURES*), made many fixes and
+  improvements in the compiler's type system, has essentially
+  completed the work to enable bootstrapping SBCL under unrelated
+  (non-SBCL, non-CMU-CL) Common Lisps, and contributed in other ways
+  as well.

 
 Stig Erik Sandoe:
   He showed how to convince the GNU toolchain to build SBCL in a way
 
 Stig Erik Sandoe:
   He showed how to convince the GNU toolchain to build SBCL in a way

@@ -591,6 +637,10 @@ Peter Van Eynde:
   of bug reports resulting from that, and submitted many other bug
   reports as well.
 
   of bug reports resulting from that, and submitted many other bug
   reports as well.
 

+Valtteri Vuorikoski:
+  He ported SBCL to NetBSD, and also fixed a long-standing bug in
+  DEFSTRUCT with respect to colliding accessor names.
+

 Colin Walters:
   His O(N) implementation of the general case of MAP, posted on the
   cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing list, was the inspiration for similar MAP
 Colin Walters:
   His O(N) implementation of the general case of MAP, posted on the
   cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing list, was the inspiration for similar MAP

@@ -605,13 +655,14 @@ Raymond Wiker:
 
 INITIALS GLOSSARY (helpful when reading comments, CVS commit logs, etc.)
 
 
 INITIALS GLOSSARY (helpful when reading comments, CVS commit logs, etc.)
 

-AL   Arthur Lemmens

 MNA  Martin Atzmueller
 DB   Daniel Barlow
 DTC  Douglas Crosher
 APD  Alexey Dejneka
 NJF  Nathan Froyd
 MNA  Martin Atzmueller
 DB   Daniel Barlow
 DTC  Douglas Crosher
 APD  Alexey Dejneka
 NJF  Nathan Froyd

+AL   Arthur Lemmens

 RAM  Robert MacLachlan
 WHN  William ("Bill") Newman
 CSR  Christophe Rhodes
 PVE  Peter Van Eynde
 RAM  Robert MacLachlan
 WHN  William ("Bill") Newman
 CSR  Christophe Rhodes
 PVE  Peter Van Eynde

+PW   Paul Werkowski