X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=CREDITS;h=0318e3849546e27c994aa0eb8d7dda25b2ea72d1;hb=2b596efa9a6b08a22bbdcdf88198c5d2af1d0335;hp=d7de58cb8253d88ac576226026cde04a258e01b7;hpb=9f10bc102adce15a820027777a03e49a7b7623da;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS index d7de58c..0318e38 100644 --- a/CREDITS +++ b/CREDITS @@ -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 @@ -506,15 +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, 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. + 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, @@ -536,13 +542,24 @@ Alexey Dejneka: 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. @@ -550,6 +567,9 @@ Matthias Hoelzl: 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 Lispworks for Windows @@ -563,12 +583,34 @@ Robert MacLachlan: 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. + 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 @@ -577,12 +619,25 @@ 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 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. + 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 @@ -603,6 +658,10 @@ Peter Van Eynde: 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 @@ -617,14 +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 \ No newline at end of file +PW Paul Werkowski