X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=CREDITS;h=3f59ff6074fb6cb6fd040de08183a69ea3d7e2b5;hb=ad6d0faf5e478900b67df9fbe4b0d5067ff51d55;hp=4941a70c9e6641305ebb9b5e86363b50fc8cdca9;hpb=e453e5df83ff69be83b46341e9c751d0b2111a39;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS index 4941a70..3f59ff6 100644 --- a/CREDITS +++ b/CREDITS @@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ Daniel Barlow: 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. @@ -536,21 +536,26 @@ 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. - -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. 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. Nathan Froyd: He has fixed various bugs, and also done a lot of internal @@ -561,6 +566,11 @@ 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. @@ -596,12 +606,20 @@ 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 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 +627,10 @@ 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 @@ -621,23 +643,48 @@ 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 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. +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, + 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. + Brian Spilsbury: He wrote Unicode-capable versions of SBCL's character, string, and stream types and operations on them. @@ -645,7 +692,7 @@ Brian Spilsbury: 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 @@ -671,15 +718,18 @@ 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 RAM Robert MacLachlan PRM Pierre Mai WHN William ("Bill") Newman CSR Christophe Rhodes +NS Nikodemus Siivola PVE Peter Van Eynde PW Paul Werkowski