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.
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
- halfway stage, it has caught hundreds of bugs in SBCL, and provided
- simple test cases for them.
+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 hundreds of bugs in SBCL, and
+ provided simple test cases for them. His random crash tester has
+ caught an old deep problem in the implementation of the stack
+ analysis phase in the compiler.
-Miles Egan
+Brian Downing:
+ He fixed the linker problems for building SBCL on Mac OS X.
+
+Miles Egan:
He creates binary packages of SBCL releases for Red Hat and other
(which?) platforms
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 found a way to
- overcome binary compatibility issues between different versions of
- dlcompat on Darwin.
+ He contributed to and extensively maintained the port of SBCL to
+ MacOS X. His contributions include overcoming binary compatibility
+ issues between different versions of dlcompat on Darwin, other
+ linker fixes, and signal handler bugfixes.
Dave McDonald:
He made a lot of progress toward getting SBCL to be bootstrappable
He showed how to convince the GNU toolchain to build SBCL in a way
which supports callbacks from C code into SBCL.
+Nikodemus Siivola:
+ He provided build fixes, in particular to tame the SunOS toolchain,
+ and has fixed many (stream-related and other) bugs besides.
+
Brian Spilsbury:
He wrote Unicode-capable versions of SBCL's character, string, and
stream types and operations on them.
INITIALS GLOSSARY (helpful when reading comments, CVS commit logs, etc.)
+VJA Vincent Arkesteijn
MNA Martin Atzmueller
DB Daniel Barlow (also "dan")
DTC Douglas Crosher
APD Alexey Dejneka
+PFD Paul F. Dietz
NJF Nathan Froyd
AL Arthur Lemmens
RAM Robert MacLachlan