X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=CREDITS;h=bb87d4b0641e394285a13d4f33eabd27cfbdfbc4;hb=b282ecc0240c6dc67aaeea2d64046d411738385a;hp=38e36ba8598aee833269483bad0f1793e8ff1d7d;hpb=b711554e4ce0dce883ba9e09a445c969aec0d305;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS index 38e36ba..bb87d4b 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 +507,15 @@ 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, @@ -535,11 +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 @@ -572,15 +586,24 @@ 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. @@ -600,20 +623,38 @@ 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. + 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. +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. @@ -647,13 +688,16 @@ 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