X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=CREDITS;h=16bc1fd32b9b1b5574b2e856fe96a87d5c9b08d9;hb=2f3c0044ba37b2b33ab60b283e4612aa1ba643eb;hp=e3492eae4db373dd78efeeb812700b75ae96b19f;hpb=a23903deaf6348cc088eb0f992a99cdba0a37d66;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS index e3492ea..16bc1fd 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, @@ -530,11 +536,24 @@ Douglas Crosher: 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. + 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. Nathan Froyd: He has fixed various bugs, and also done a lot of internal @@ -545,12 +564,20 @@ 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. +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 @@ -564,22 +591,39 @@ 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. + 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 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. + 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 @@ -589,17 +633,47 @@ 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. + +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 + 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 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. + +Nikodemus Siivola: + He provided build fixes, in particular to tame the SunOS toolchain, + and has fixed many (stream-related and other) bugs besides. + +Juho Snellman: + He provided several performance enhancements, including a better hash + function on strings, and removal of unneccessary bounds checks. + Brian Spilsbury: He wrote Unicode-capable versions of SBCL's character, string, and stream types and operations on them. @@ -633,13 +707,16 @@ Raymond Wiker: INITIALS GLOSSARY (helpful when reading comments, CVS commit logs, etc.) +VJA Vincent Arkesteijn MNA Martin Atzmueller -DB Daniel Barlow +DB Daniel Barlow (also "dan") DTC Douglas Crosher APD Alexey Dejneka +PFD Paul F. Dietz NJF Nathan Froyd AL Arthur Lemmens RAM Robert MacLachlan +PRM Pierre Mai WHN William ("Bill") Newman CSR Christophe Rhodes PVE Peter Van Eynde