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
+and other changes to update it for current CMUCL interfaces were made
+by Eric Marsden and Douglas Crosher
+
The CMU CL machine-independent disassembler (compiler/disassem.lisp)
was written by Miles Bader.
(Note: (1) This is probably incomplete, since there's no systematic
procedure for updating it. (2) Some more details are available in the
NEWS file, in the project's CVS change logs, and in the archives of
-the sbcl-devel mailing list.)
+the sbcl-devel mailing list. (3) In this, as in other parts of SBCL,
+patches are welcome. Don't be shy.)
Martin Atzmueller:
He reported many bugs, fixed many bugs, ported various fixes
from CMU CL, and helped clean up various stale bug data. (He has
been unusually energetic at this. As of sbcl-0.6.9.10, the
- total number of bugs involved likely exceeds 100.)
+ total number of bugs involved likely exceeded 100. Since then,
+ I've lost count. See the CVS logs.)
Daniel Barlow:
- He contributed sblisp.lisp, a set of patches to make SBCL
- play nicely with ILISP. (Those patches have since disappeared from the
- SBCL distribution because ILISP has since been patched to play nicely
- with SBCL.) He also figured out how to get the CMU CL dynamic object
- file loading code to work under SBCL. He ported CMU CL's Alpha
- port 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 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, 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.
Cadabra, Inc. (later merged into GoTo.com):
They hired Bill Newman to do some consulting for them,
including the implementation of EQUALP hash tables for CMU CL;
then agreed to release the EQUALP code into the public domain,
- giving SBCL (and CMU CL) EQUALP hash tables.
+ giving SBCL (and CMU CL) its EQUALP hash tables.
Douglas Crosher:
He continued to improve CMU CL after SBCL forked from it, creating
many patches which were directly applicable to SBCL. Notable examples
- include fixes for various compiler bugs, and a generalization
- of the type system's handling of the CONS type to allow ANSI-style
- (CONS FOO BAR) types.
+ include fixes for various compiler bugs, the implementation of
+ CL:DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO, and a generalization of the type system's
+ handling of the CONS type to allow ANSI-style (CONS FOO BAR) types.
Alexey Dejneka:
- He has fixed many bugs in SBCL. I can't find a nice summary theme,
- though, except that appears that at least some of them come from
- going over the BUGS file to find outstanding problems to fix.
+ 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.
+
+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.)
+
+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.
+
+Arthur Lemmens:
+ 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,
problems, has been invaluable to the CMU CL project and, by
porting, invaluable to the SBCL project as well.
-Bill Newman:
- He continued to work on SBCL after the fork, increasing ANSI
+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.
+
+Dave McDonald:
+ He made a lot of progress toward getting SBCL to be bootstrappable
+ under CLISP.
+
+William ("Bill") Newman:
+ He continued to maintain SBCL after the fork, increasing ANSI
compliance, fixing bugs, regularizing the internals of the
system, deleting unused extensions, improving performance in
some areas (especially sequence functions and non-simple vectors),
- and updating documentation.
+ updating documentation, and even, for better or worse, getting
+ rid of various functionality (e.g. the byte interpreter).
+
+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 done a substantial
+ amount of work on 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
+ which supports callbacks from C code into SBCL.
+
+Brian Spilsbury:
+ He wrote Unicode-capable versions of SBCL's character, string, and
+ stream types and operations on them.
Raymond Toy:
He continued to work on CMU CL after the SBCL fork, especially on
ported to SBCL.
Peter Van Eynde:
- He wrestled the CLISP test suite into a portable test suite
+ He wrestled the CLISP test suite into a mostly portable test suite
(clocc ansi-test) which can be used on SBCL, provided a slew of
of bug reports resulting from that, and submitted many other bug
reports as well.
CMU CL support for FreeBSD and updating it for the changes made
from FreeBSD version 3 to FreeBSD version 4. He also ported the
CMU CL extension RUN-PROGRAM, and related code, to SBCL.
+
+
+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
+RAM Robert MacLachlan
+WHN William ("Bill") Newman
+CSR Christophe Rhodes
+PVE Peter Van Eynde
+PW Paul Werkowski
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