X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=CREDITS;h=1384e2f6bc1b72b31a2e282635ca82ee0eb25ef9;hb=f3f677703e37f5a335b3be7fa64f7748ad969517;hp=f41a1f3035f03608d7bcb63f508a8b50b198d92b;hpb=224466fab9dc4e8b3faf13a121f827f198811bf6;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS index f41a1f3..1384e2f 100644 --- a/CREDITS +++ b/CREDITS @@ -509,13 +509,14 @@ Martin Atzmueller: Daniel Barlow: 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. + and PPC ports (from CMUCL), control stack exhaustion checking (new), + native threads support for x86 Linux (new), and the initial x86-64 + backend (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, @@ -540,15 +541,30 @@ Alexey Dejneka: 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. He + found and fixed the cause of backtraces failing for undefined + functions and assembly routines. + +Miles Egan: He creates binary packages of SBCL releases for Red Hat and other - (which?) platforms + (which?) platforms. + +Lutz Euler: + He made a large number of improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. + +Andreas Fuchs: + He provides infrastructure for monitoring build and performance + regressions of SBCL. He assisted with the integration of the + Unicode work. Nathan Froyd: He has fixed various bugs, and also done a lot of internal @@ -559,18 +575,32 @@ Nathan Froyd: can delete a thousand lines of implement-ITERATE macrology from the codebase.) +Bruno Haible: + He devised an accurate continued-fraction-based implementation of + RATIONALIZE, replacing a less-accurate version inherited from + primordial CMUCL. + 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. +Teemu Kalvas: + He worked on Unicode support for SBCL, including parsing the Unicode + character database, restoring the FAST-READ-CHAR optimization and + developing external format support. + 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 + SBCL to bootstrap under Lispworks for Windows. + +David Lichteblau: + He came up with a more memory-efficient representation for + structures with raw slots. Robert MacLachlan: He has continued to answer questions about, and contribute fixes to, @@ -588,20 +618,27 @@ 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. + releases and to other implementations. He assisted in development + of Unicode support for SBCL. 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. + 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 under CLISP. +Perry E. Metzger: + He ported SBCL to NetBSD with newer signals, building on the + work of Valtteri Vuorikoski. He also provided various cleanups to + the C runtime. + 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 @@ -609,6 +646,10 @@ Gerd Moellman: faster in the typical case than the old optimizations in PCL and less buggy. +Timothy Moore: + He designed and implemented the original CMUCL linkage-table, on + which the SBCL implementation thereof is based. + William ("Bill") Newman: He continued to maintain SBCL after the fork, increasing ANSI compliance, fixing bugs, regularizing the internals of the @@ -621,6 +662,9 @@ Patrik Nordebo: He contributed to the port of SBCL to MacOS X, finding solutions for ABI and assembly syntax differences between Darwin and Linux. +Scott Parish: + He ported SBCL to OpenBSD-with-ELF. + 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 @@ -641,14 +685,43 @@ 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. +Rudi Schlatte: + He ported Paul Foley's simple-streams implementation from cmucl, + converted the sbcl manual to Texinfo and wrote a documentation + string extractor that keeps function documentation in the manual + current. + +Thiemo Seufer: + He modernized the MIPS backend, fixing many bugs, and assisted in + cleaning up the C runtime code. + +Julian Squires: + He worked on Unicode support for the PowerPC platform. + +Nikodemus Siivola: + He provided build fixes, in particular to tame the SunOS toolchain, + implemented package locks, ported the linkage-table code from CMUCL, + reimplemented STEP, and has fixed many (stream-related and other) bugs + besides. + +Juho Snellman: + He provided several performance enhancements, including a better hash + function on strings, removal of unneccessary bounds checks, and + multiple improvements to performance of common operations on + bignums. He ported and enhanced the statistical profiler written by + Gerd Moellmann for CMU CL. He completed the work on the x86-64 port + of SBCL. + Brian Spilsbury: He wrote Unicode-capable versions of SBCL's character, string, and - stream types and operations on them. + stream types and operations on them. (These versions did not end up + in the system, but did to a large extent influence the support which + finally did get merged.) Raymond Toy: He continued to work on CMU CL after the SBCL fork, especially on floating point stuff. Various patches and fixes of his have been - ported to SBCL. + ported to SBCL, including his Sparc port of linkage-table. Peter Van Eynde: He wrestled the CLISP test suite into a mostly portable test suite @@ -665,6 +738,9 @@ Colin Walters: cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing list, was the inspiration for similar MAP code added in sbcl-0.6.8. +Cheuksan Edward Wang: + He assisted in debugging the SBCL x86-64 backend. + Raymond Wiker: He ported sbcl-0.6.3 back to FreeBSD, restoring the ancestral CMU CL support for FreeBSD and updating it for the changes made @@ -674,15 +750,20 @@ Raymond Wiker: 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 +DFL David Lichteblau RAM Robert MacLachlan PRM Pierre Mai WHN William ("Bill") Newman CSR Christophe Rhodes +THS Thiemo Seufer +NS Nikodemus Siivola PVE Peter Van Eynde PW Paul Werkowski