X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=CREDITS;h=0318e3849546e27c994aa0eb8d7dda25b2ea72d1;hb=1b650be8b800cf96e2c268ae317fb26d0bf36827;hp=f355e741e51c4067bde3e46ed1c3652919f8e72f;hpb=bcbbc2e541bf176bfa1b70c7933ffa0c2c59d0fc;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS index f355e74..0318e38 100644 --- a/CREDITS +++ b/CREDITS @@ -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 -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 @@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ by Bill Chiles to add encapsulation, and modified more by William Lott to add FDEFN objects. The CMU CL condition system (code/error.lisp) was based on -some prototyping code written by Ken Pitman at Symbolics. +some prototyping code written by Kent Pitman at Symbolics. The CMU CL HASH-TABLE system was originally written by Skef Wholey for Spice Lisp, then rewritten by William Lott, then rewritten @@ -452,8 +452,9 @@ Aronson, and Steve Handerson. Douglas Crosher wrote code to support Gray streams, added X86 support for the debugger and relocatable code, wrote a conservative -generational GC for the X86 port, and added X86-specific extensions to -support stack groups and multiprocessing. +generational GC for the X86 port. He also added X86-specific +extensions to support stack groups and multiprocessing, but these are +not present in SBCL The CMU CL user manual credits Robert MacLachlan as editor. A chapter on the CMU CL interprocess communication extensions (not supported in @@ -506,14 +507,20 @@ Martin Atzmueller: I've lost count. See the CVS logs.) 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. + His contributions have included support for shared object loading + (from CMUCL), the Cheney GC for non-x86 ports (from CMUCL), Alpha + 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 + 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. + +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, @@ -530,23 +537,42 @@ Douglas Crosher: 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. + +Miles Egan + He creates binary packages of SBCL releases for Red Hat and other + (which?) platforms 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: - He found and fixed a number of SBCL bugs while partially porting SBCL - to bootstrap under . + 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, @@ -554,10 +580,37 @@ Robert MacLachlan: 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. He contributed to the port of SBCL to MacOS X, + implementing the Lisp side of the PowerOpen ABI. + +Eric Marsden: + Some of his fixes to CMU CL since the SBCL fork have been ported + to SBCL. He also maintains the cl-benchmark package, which gives + us some idea of how our performance changes compared to earlier + releases and to other implementations. + +Antonio Martinez-Shotton: + 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. + 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 @@ -566,15 +619,33 @@ William ("Bill") Newman: updating documentation, and even, for better or worse, getting rid of various functionality (e.g. the byte interpreter). +Patrik Nordebo: + He contributed to the port of SBCL to MacOS X, finding solutions for + ABI and assembly syntax differences between Darwin and Linux. + +Kevin M. Rosenberg: + He provided the ACL-style toplevel (sb-aclrepl contrib module), and + a number of MOP-related bug reports. He also creates the official + Debian packages of SBCL. + 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 (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. Brian Spilsbury: He wrote Unicode-capable versions of SBCL's character, string, and - stream operations. + stream types and operations on them. Raymond Toy: He continued to work on CMU CL after the SBCL fork, especially on @@ -582,11 +653,15 @@ Raymond Toy: 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. +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 @@ -601,13 +676,15 @@ Raymond Wiker: INITIALS GLOSSARY (helpful when reading comments, CVS commit logs, etc.) -AL Arthur Lemmens MNA Martin Atzmueller -DB Daniel Barlow +DB Daniel Barlow (also "dan") DTC Douglas Crosher APD Alexey Dejneka NJF Nathan Froyd +AL Arthur Lemmens RAM Robert MacLachlan +PRM Pierre Mai WHN William ("Bill") Newman CSR Christophe Rhodes PVE Peter Van Eynde +PW Paul Werkowski