X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=CREDITS;h=c6830e9ec81f29f46fb7cdd7443a1993218484b0;hb=22c1de0a40df83bb5628974010a879cb2c17ff53;hp=f355e741e51c4067bde3e46ed1c3652919f8e72f;hpb=bcbbc2e541bf176bfa1b70c7933ffa0c2c59d0fc;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS index f355e74..c6830e9 100644 --- a/CREDITS +++ b/CREDITS @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ Also, Christopher Hoover and William Lott wrote compiler/generic/vm-macs.lisp to centralize information about machine-dependent macros and constants. Sean Hallgren is credited with most of the Alpha backend. Julian -Dolby created the CMU CL Alpha/linux port. Douglas Crosher added +Dolby created the CMU CL Alpha/Linux port. Douglas Crosher added complex-float support. The original PPC backend was the work of Gary Byers. Some bug fixes @@ -508,12 +508,18 @@ Martin Atzmueller: 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. 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. + 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. + +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, @@ -530,23 +536,38 @@ Douglas Crosher: 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 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'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. 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. + +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 . + He found and fixed a number of SBCL bugs while partially porting + SBCL to bootstrap under Lispworks for Windows Robert MacLachlan: He has continued to answer questions about, and contribute fixes to, @@ -554,10 +575,29 @@ Robert MacLachlan: problems, has been invaluable to the CMU CL project and, by porting, invaluable to the SBCL project as well. +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. + +Eric Marsden: + Some of his fixes to CMU CL since the SBCL fork have been ported + to SBCL. + +Antonio Martinez-Shotton: + He has contributed a number of bug fixes and bug reports to SBCL. + 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 @@ -566,15 +606,25 @@ William ("Bill") Newman: updating documentation, and even, for better or worse, getting rid of various functionality (e.g. the byte interpreter). +Kevin M. Rosenberg: + He provided the ACL-style toplevel, and a number of MOP-related bug + reports. + Christophe Rhodes: - He has done various low-level work on SBCL, especially for the - SPARC port (and for CPU-architecture-neutral things motivated by - it, like *BACKEND-FEATURES*). He's also contributed miscellaneous - bug fixes. + 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. + +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. Brian Spilsbury: He wrote Unicode-capable versions of SBCL's character, string, and - stream operations. + stream types and operations on them. Raymond Toy: He continued to work on CMU CL after the SBCL fork, especially on @@ -582,11 +632,15 @@ Raymond Toy: ported to SBCL. Peter Van Eynde: - He wrestled the CLISP test suite into a portable test suite + He wrestled the CLISP test suite into a mostly portable test suite (clocc ansi-test) which can be used on SBCL, provided a slew of 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 @@ -601,13 +655,14 @@ Raymond Wiker: INITIALS GLOSSARY (helpful when reading comments, CVS commit logs, etc.) -AL Arthur Lemmens MNA Martin Atzmueller DB Daniel Barlow DTC Douglas Crosher APD Alexey Dejneka NJF Nathan Froyd +AL Arthur Lemmens RAM Robert MacLachlan WHN William ("Bill") Newman CSR Christophe Rhodes PVE Peter Van Eynde +PW Paul Werkowski