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[sbcl.git] / CREDITS

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@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ Daniel Barlow:
   and PPC ports (from CMUCL), control stack exhaustion checking (new)
   and native threads support for x86 Linux (new).  He also refactored
   the garbage collectors for understandability, wrote code
   and PPC ports (from CMUCL), control stack exhaustion checking (new)
   and native threads support for x86 Linux (new).  He also refactored
   the garbage collectors for understandability, wrote code

-  (e.g. grovel_headers.c and stat_wrapper stuff) to find
+  (e.g. grovel-headers.c and stat_wrapper stuff) to find

   machine-dependent and OS-dependent constants automatically, and was
   original author of the asdf, asdf-install, sb-bsd-sockets,
   sb-executable, sb-grovel and sb-posix contrib packages.
   machine-dependent and OS-dependent constants automatically, and was
   original author of the asdf, asdf-install, sb-bsd-sockets,
   sb-executable, sb-grovel and sb-posix contrib packages.

@@ -536,16 +536,14 @@ Douglas Crosher:
   handling of the CONS type to allow ANSI-style (CONS FOO BAR) types. 
 
 Alexey Dejneka:
   handling of the CONS type to allow ANSI-style (CONS FOO BAR) types. 
 
 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 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.
+  He fixed many, many bugs on various themes, and has done a
+  tremendous amount of work on the compiler in particular, fixing
+  bugs and refactoring.

 
 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
 
 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
+  halfway stage, it has caught hundreds of bugs in SBCL, and provided

   simple test cases for them.
 
 Miles Egan
   simple test cases for them.
 
 Miles Egan

@@ -596,7 +594,9 @@ Antonio Martinez-Shotton:
   He has contributed a number of bug fixes and bug reports to SBCL.
 
 Brian Mastenbrook:
   He has contributed a number of bug fixes and bug reports to SBCL.
 
 Brian Mastenbrook:

-  He contributed to the port of SBCL to MacOS X.
+  He contributed to the port of SBCL to MacOS X.  He found a way to
+  overcome binary compatibility issues between different versions of
+  dlcompat on Darwin.

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

@@ -627,12 +627,15 @@ Kevin M. Rosenberg:
   Debian packages of SBCL.
 
 Christophe Rhodes:
   Debian packages of SBCL.
 
 Christophe Rhodes:

-  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.
+  He ported SBCL to SPARC (based on the CMUCL backend), 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.  He participated in
+  the modernization of SBCL's CLOS implementation, implemented the
+  treatment of compiler notes as restartable conditions, provided
+  optimizations to compiler output, 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

@@ -683,3 +686,4 @@ WHN  William ("Bill") Newman
 CSR  Christophe Rhodes
 PVE  Peter Van Eynde
 PW   Paul Werkowski
 CSR  Christophe Rhodes
 PVE  Peter Van Eynde
 PW   Paul Werkowski

+PFD  Paul F. Dietz