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.
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.
-
-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.
-
-Miles Egan
+ 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 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.
+
+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 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
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
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