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A lot. More than 500, less than 1000 if I had to guess. You can count for yourself if you reaaaallllllly want to know.Contributors to GCCThe GCC project would like to thank its many contributors. Without them the project would not have been nearly as successful as it has been. Any omissions in this list are accidental. Feel free to contact [email protected] [email protected] if you have been left out or some of your contributions are not listed. Please keep this list in alphabetical order.Analog Devices helped implement the support for complex data types and iterators.John David Anglin for threading-related fixes and improvements to libstdc++-v3, and the HP-UX port.James van Artsdalen wrote the code that makes efficient use of the Intel 80387 register stack.Abramo and Roberto Bagnara for the SysV68 Motorola 3300 Delta Series port.Alasdair Baird for various bug fixes.Giovanni Bajo for analyzing lots of complicated C++ problem reports.Peter Barada for his work to improve code generation for new ColdFire cores.Gerald Baumgartner added the signature extension to the C++ front end.Godmar Back for his Java improvements and encouragement.Scott Bambrough for help porting the Java compiler.Wolfgang Bangerth for processing tons of bug reports.Jon Beniston for his Microsoft Windows port of Java and port to Lattice Mico32.Daniel Berlin for better DWARF2 support, faster/better optimizations, improved alias analysis, plus migrating GCC to Bugzilla.Geoff Berry for his Java object serialization work and various patches.David Binderman tests weekly snapshots of GCC trunk against Fedora Rawhide for several architectures.Uros Bizjak for the implementation of x87 math built-in functions and for various middle end and i386 back end improvements and bug fixes.Eric Blake for helping to make GCJ and libgcj conform to the specifications.Janne Blomqvist for contributions to GNU Fortran.Segher Boessenkool for various fixes.Hans-J. Boehm for his garbage collector, IA-64 libffi port, and other Java work.Neil Booth for work on cpplib, lang hooks, debug hooks and other miscellaneous clean-ups.Steven Bosscher for integrating the GNU Fortran front end into GCC and for contributing to the tree-ssa branch.Eric Botcazou for fixing middle- and backend bugs left and right.Per Bothner for his direction via the steering committee and various improvements to the infrastructure for supporting new languages. Chill front end implementation. Initial implementations of cpplib, fix-header, config.guess, libio, and past C++ library (libg++) maintainer. Dreaming up, designing and implementing much of GCJ.Devon Bowen helped port GCC to the Tahoe.Don Bowman for mips-vxworks contributions.Dave Brolley for work on cpplib and Chill.Paul Brook for work on the ARM architecture and maintaining GNU Fortran.Robert Brown implemented the support for Encore 32000 systems.Christian Bruel for improvements to local store elimination.Herman A.J. ten Brugge for various fixes.Joerg Brunsmann for Java compiler hacking and help with the GCJ FAQ.Joe Buck for his direction via the steering committee.Craig Burley for leadership of the G77 Fortran effort.Stephan Buys for contributing Doxygen notes for libstdc++.Paolo Carlini for libstdc++ work: lots of efficiency improvements to the C++ strings, streambufs and formatted I/O, hard detective work on the frustrating localization issues, and keeping up with the problem reports.John Carr for his alias work, SPARC hacking, infrastructure improvements, previous contributions to the steering committee, loop optimizations, etc.Stephane Carrez for 68HC11 and 68HC12 ports.Steve Chamberlain for support for the Renesas SH and H8 processors and the PicoJava processor, and for GCJ config fixes.Glenn Chambers for help with the GCJ FAQ.John-Marc Chandonia for various libgcj patches.Denis Chertykov for contributing and maintaining the AVR port, the first GCC port for an 8-bit architecture.Scott Christley for his Objective-C contributions.Eric Christopher for his Java porting help and clean-ups.Branko Cibej for more warning contributions.The GNU Classpath project for all of their merged runtime code.Nick Clifton for arm, mcore, fr30, v850, m32r, rx work, --help, and other random hacking.Michael Cook for libstdc++ cleanup patches to reduce warnings.R. Kelley Cook for making GCC buildable from a read-only directory as well as other miscellaneous build process and documentation clean-ups.Ralf Corsepius for SH testing and minor bug fixing.Stan Cox for care and feeding of the x86 port and lots of behind the scenes hacking.Alex Crain provided changes for the 3b1.Ian Dall for major improvements to the NS32k port.Paul Dale for his work to add uClinux platform support to the m68k backend.Dario Dariol contributed the four varieties of sample programs that print a copy of their source.Russell Davidson for fstream and stringstream fixes in libstdc++.Bud Davis for work on the G77 and GNU Fortran compilers.Mo DeJong for GCJ and libgcj bug fixes.DJ Delorie for the DJGPP port, build and libiberty maintenance, various bug fixes, and the M32C, MeP, and RL78 ports.Arnaud Desitter for helping to debug GNU Fortran.Gabriel Dos Reis for contributions to G++, contributions and maintenance of GCC diagnostics infrastructure, libstdc++-v3, including valarray<>, complex<>, maintaining the numerics library (including that pesky <limits> :-) and keeping up-to-date anything to do with numbers.Ulrich Drepper for his work on glibc, testing of GCC using glibc, ISO C99 support, CFG dumping support, etc., plus support of the C++ runtime libraries including for all kinds of C interface issues, contributing and maintainingcomplex<>, sanity checking and disbursement, configuration architecture, libio maintenance, and early math work.Zdenek Dvorak for a new loop unroller and various fixes.Michael Eager for his work on the Xilinx MicroBlaze port.Richard Earnshaw for his ongoing work with the ARM.David Edelsohn for his direction via the steering committee, ongoing work with the RS6000/PowerPC port, help cleaning up Haifa loop changes, doing the entire AIX port of libstdc++ with his bare hands, and for ensuring GCC properly keeps working on AIX.Kevin Ediger for the floating point formatting of num_put::do_put in libstdc++.Phil Edwards for libstdc++ work including configuration hackery, documentation maintainer, chief breaker of the web pages, the occasional iostream bug fix, and work on shared library symbol versioning.Paul Eggert for random hacking all over GCC.Mark Elbrecht for various DJGPP improvements, and for libstdc++ configuration support for locales and fstream-related fixes.Vadim Egorov for libstdc++ fixes in strings, streambufs, and iostreams.Christian Ehrhardt for dealing with bug reports.Ben Elliston for his work to move the Objective-C runtime into its own subdirectory and for his work on autoconf.Revital Eres for work on the PowerPC 750CL port.Marc Espie for OpenBSD support.Doug Evans for much of the global optimization framework, arc, m32r, and SPARC work.Christopher Faylor for his work on the Cygwin port and for caring and feeding the gcc.gnu.org box and saving its users tons of spam.Fred Fish for BeOS support and Ada fixes.Ivan Fontes Garcia for the Portuguese translation of the GCJ FAQ.Peter Gerwinski for various bug fixes and the Pascal front end.Kaveh R. Ghazi for his direction via the steering committee, amazing work to make `-W -Wall -W* -Werror' useful, and continuously testing GCC on a plethora of platforms. Kaveh extends his gratitude to the CAIP Center at Rutgers University for providing him with computing resources to work on Free Software since the late 1980s.John Gilmore for a donation to the FSF earmarked improving GNU Java.Judy Goldberg for c++ contributions.Torbjorn Granlund for various fixes and the c-torture testsuite, multiply- and divide-by-constant optimization, improved long long support, improved leaf function register allocation, and his direction via the steering committee.Anthony Green for his -Os contributions, the moxie port, and Java front end work.Stu Grossman for gdb hacking, allowing GCJ developers to debug Java code.Michael K. Gschwind contributed the port to the PDP-11.Richard Guenther for his ongoing middle-end contributions and bug fixes and for release management.Ron Guilmette implemented the protoize and unprotoize tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the Intel 386 and 860 support.Mostafa Hagog for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS) and post reload GCSE.Bruno Haible for improvements in the runtime overhead for EH, new warnings and assorted bug fixes.Andrew Haley for his amazing Java compiler and library efforts.Chris Hanson assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.Michael Hayes for various thankless work he's done trying to get the c30/c40 ports functional. Lots of loop and unroll improvements and fixes.Dara Hazeghi for wading through myriads of target-specific bug reports.Kate Hedstrom for staking the G77 folks with an initial testsuite.Richard Henderson for his ongoing SPARC, alpha, ia32, and ia64 work, loop opts, and generally fixing lots of old problems we've ignored for years, flow rewrite and lots of further stuff, including reviewing tons of patches.Aldy Hernandez for working on the PowerPC port, SIMD support, and various fixes.Nobuyuki Hikichi of Software Research Associates, Tokyo, contributed the support for the Sony NEWS machine.Kazu Hirata for caring and feeding the Renesas H8/300 port and various fixes.Katherine Holcomb for work on GNU Fortran.Manfred Hollstein for his ongoing work to keep the m88k alive, lots of testing and bug fixing, particularly of GCC configury code.Steve Holmgren for MachTen patches.Jan Hubicka for his x86 port improvements.Falk Hueffner for working on C and optimization bug reports.Bernardo Innocenti for his m68k work, including merging of ColdFire improvements and uClinux support.Christian Iseli for various bug fixes.Kamil Iskra for general m68k hacking.Lee Iverson for random fixes and MIPS testing.Andreas Jaeger for testing and benchmarking of GCC and various bug fixes.Jakub Jelinek for his SPARC work and sibling call optimizations as well as lots of bug fixes and test cases, and for improving the Java build system.Janis Johnson for ia64 testing and fixes, her quality improvement sidetracks, and web page maintenance.Kean Johnston for SCO OpenServer support and various fixes.Tim Josling for the sample language treelang based originally on Richard Kenner's “toy” language.Nicolai Josuttis for additional libstdc++ documentation.Klaus Kaempf for his ongoing work to make alpha-vms a viable target.Steven G. Kargl for work on GNU Fortran.David Kashtan of SRI adapted GCC to VMS.Ryszard Kabatek for many, many libstdc++ bug fixes and optimizations of strings, especially member functions, and for auto_ptr fixes.Geoffrey Keating for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux and his automatic regression tester.Brendan Kehoe for his ongoing work with G++ and for a lot of early work in just about every part of libstdc++.Oliver M. Kellogg of Deutsche Aerospace contributed the port to the MIL-STD-1750A.Richard Kenner of the New York University Ultracomputer Research Laboratory wrote the machine descriptions for the AMD 29000, the DEC Alpha, the IBM RT PC, and the IBM RS/6000 as well as the support for instruction attributes. He also made changes to better support RISC processors including changes to common subexpression elimination, strength reduction, function calling sequence handling, and condition code support, in addition to generalizing the code for frame pointer elimination and delay slot scheduling. Richard Kenner was also the head maintainer of GCC for several years.Mumit Khan for various contributions to the Cygwin and Mingw32 ports and maintaining binary releases for Microsoft Windows hosts, and for massive libstdc++ porting work to Cygwin/Mingw32.Robin Kirkham for cpu32 support.Mark Klein for PA improvements.Thomas Koenig for various bug fixes.Bruce Korb for the new and improved fixincludes code.Benjamin Kosnik for his G++ work and for leading the libstdc++-v3 effort.Charles LaBrec contributed the support for the Integrated Solutions 68020 system.Asher Langton and Mike Kumbera for contributing Cray pointer support to GNU Fortran, and for other GNU Fortran improvements.Jeff Law for his direction via the steering committee, coordinating the entire egcs project and GCC 2.95, rolling out snapshots and releases, handling merges from GCC2, reviewing tons of patches that might have fallen through the cracks else, and random but extensive hacking.Marc Lehmann for his direction via the steering committee and helping with analysis and improvements of x86 performance.Victor Leikehman for work on GNU Fortran.Ted Lemon wrote parts of the RTL reader and printer.Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for C++ improvements including template as template parameter support, and many C++ fixes.Warren Levy for tremendous work on libgcj (Java Runtime Library) and random work on the Java front end.Alain Lichnewsky ported GCC to the MIPS CPU.Oskar Liljeblad for hacking on AWT and his many Java bug reports and patches.Robert Lipe for OpenServer support, new testsuites, testing, etc.Chen Liqin for various S+core related fixes/improvement, and for maintaining the S+core port.Weiwen Liu for testing and various bug fixes.Manuel López-Ibáñez for improving -Wconversion and many other diagnostics fixes and improvements.Dave Love for his ongoing work with the Fortran front end and runtime libraries.Martin von Löwis for internal consistency checking infrastructure, various C++ improvements including namespace support, and tons of assistance with libstdc++/compiler merges.H.J. Lu for his previous contributions to the steering committee, many x86 bug reports, prototype patches, and keeping the GNU/Linux ports working.Greg McGary for random fixes and (someday) bounded pointers.Andrew MacLeod for his ongoing work in building a real EH system, various code generation improvements, work on the global optimizer, etc.Vladimir Makarov for hacking some ugly i960 problems, PowerPC hacking improvements to compile-time performance, overall knowledge and direction in the area of instruction scheduling, and design and implementation of the automaton based instruction scheduler.Bob Manson for his behind the scenes work on dejagnu.Philip Martin for lots of libstdc++ string and vector iterator fixes and improvements, and string clean up and testsuites.All of the Mauve project contributors, for Java test code.Bryce McKinlay for numerous GCJ and libgcj fixes and improvements.Adam Megacz for his work on the Microsoft Windows port of GCJ.Michael Meissner for LRS framework, ia32, m32r, v850, m88k, MIPS, powerpc, haifa, ECOFF debug support, and other assorted hacking.Jason Merrill for his direction via the steering committee and leading the G++ effort.Martin Michlmayr for testing GCC on several architectures using the entire Debian archive.David Miller for his direction via the steering committee, lots of SPARC work, improvements in jump.c and interfacing with the Linux kernel developers.Gary Miller ported GCC to Charles River Data Systems machines.Alfred Minarik for libstdc++ string and ios bug fixes, and turning the entire libstdc++ testsuite namespace-compatible.Mark Mitchell for his direction via the steering committee, mountains of C++ work, load/store hoisting out of loops, alias analysis improvements, ISO C restrict support, and serving as release manager for GCC 3.x.Alan Modra for various GNU/Linux bits and testing.Toon Moene for his direction via the steering committee, Fortran maintenance, and his ongoing work to make us make Fortran run fast.Jason Molenda for major help in the care and feeding of all the services on the gcc.gnu.org (formerly egcs.cygnus.com) machine—mail, web services, ftp services, etc etc. Doing all this work on scrap paper and the backs of envelopes would have been... difficult.Catherine Moore for fixing various ugly problems we have sent her way, including the haifa bug which was killing the Alpha & PowerPC Linux kernels.Mike Moreton for his various Java patches.David Mosberger-Tang for various Alpha improvements, and for the initial IA-64 port.Stephen Moshier contributed the floating point emulator that assists in cross-compilation and permits support for floating point numbers wider than 64 bits and for ISO C99 support.Bill Moyer for his behind the scenes work on various issues.Philippe De Muyter for his work on the m68k port.Joseph S. Myers for his work on the PDP-11 port, format checking and ISO C99 support, and continuous emphasis on (and contributions to) documentation.Nathan Myers for his work on libstdc++-v3: architecture and authorship through the first three snapshots, including implementation of locale infrastructure, string, shadow C headers, and the initial project documentation (DESIGN, CHECKLIST, and so forth). Later, more work on MT-safe string and shadow headers.Felix Natter for documentation on porting libstdc++.Nathanael Nerode for cleaning up the configuration/build process.NeXT, Inc. donated the front end that supports the Objective-C language.Hans-Peter Nilsson for the CRIS and MMIX ports, improvements to the search engine setup, various documentation fixes and other small fixes.Geoff Noer for his work on getting cygwin native builds working.Diego Novillo for his work on Tree SSA, OpenMP, SPEC performance tracking web pages, GIMPLE tuples, and assorted fixes.David O'Brien for the FreeBSD/alpha, FreeBSD/AMD x86-64, FreeBSD/ARM, FreeBSD/PowerPC, and FreeBSD/SPARC64 ports and related infrastructure improvements.Alexandre Oliva for various build infrastructure improvements, scripts and amazing testing work, including keeping libtool issues sane and happy.Stefan Olsson for work on mt_alloc.Melissa O'Neill for various NeXT fixes.Rainer Orth for random MIPS work, including improvements to GCC's o32 ABI support, improvements to dejagnu's MIPS support, Java configuration clean-ups and porting work, and maintaining the IRIX, Solaris 2, and Tru64 UNIX ports.Hartmut Penner for work on the s390 port.Paul Petersen wrote the machine description for the Alliant FX/8.Alexandre Petit-Bianco for implementing much of the Java compiler and continued Java maintainership.Matthias Pfaller for major improvements to the NS32k port.Gerald Pfeifer for his direction via the steering committee, pointing out lots of problems we need to solve, maintenance of the web pages, and taking care of documentation maintenance in general.Andrew Pinski for processing bug reports by the dozen.Ovidiu Predescu for his work on the Objective-C front end and runtime libraries.Jerry Quinn for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O.Ken Raeburn for various improvements to checker, MIPS ports and various cleanups in the compiler.Rolf W. Rasmussen for hacking on AWT.David Reese of Sun Microsystems contributed to the Solaris on PowerPC port.Volker Reichelt for keeping up with the problem reports.Joern Rennecke for maintaining the sh port, loop, regmove & reload hacking and developing and maintaining the Epiphany port.Loren J. Rittle for improvements to libstdc++-v3 including the FreeBSD port, threading fixes, thread-related configury changes, critical threading documentation, and solutions to really tricky I/O problems, as well as keeping GCC properly working on FreeBSD and continuous testing.Craig Rodrigues for processing tons of bug reports.Ola Rönnerup for work on mt_alloc.Gavin Romig-Koch for lots of behind the scenes MIPS work.David Ronis inspired and encouraged Craig to rewrite the G77 documentation in texinfo format by contributing a first pass at a translation of the old g77-0.5.16/f/DOC file.Ken Rose for fixes to GCC's delay slot filling code.Paul Rubin wrote most of the preprocessor.Pétur Runólfsson for major performance improvements in C++ formatted I/O and large file support in C++ filebuf.Chip Salzenberg for libstdc++ patches and improvements to locales, traits, Makefiles, libio, libtool hackery, and “long long” support.Juha Sarlin for improvements to the H8 code generator.Greg Satz assisted in making GCC work on HP-UX for the 9000 series 300.Roger Sayle for improvements to constant folding and GCC's RTL optimizers as well as for fixing numerous bugs.Bradley Schatz for his work on the GCJ FAQ.Peter Schauer wrote the code to allow debugging to work on the Alpha.William Schelter did most of the work on the Intel 80386 support.Tobias Schlüter for work on GNU Fortran.Bernd Schmidt for various code generation improvements and major work in the reload pass, serving as release manager for GCC 2.95.3, and work on the Blackfin and C6X ports.Peter Schmid for constant testing of libstdc++—especially application testing, going above and beyond what was requested for the release criteria—and libstdc++ header file tweaks.Jason Schroeder for jcf-dump patches.Andreas Schwab for his work on the m68k port.Lars Segerlund for work on GNU Fortran.Dodji Seketeli for numerous C++ bug fixes and debug info improvements.Joel Sherrill for his direction via the steering committee, RTEMS contributions and RTEMS testing.Nathan Sidwell for many C++ fixes/improvements.Jeffrey Siegal for helping RMS with the original design of GCC, some code which handles the parse tree and RTL data structures, constant folding and help with the original VAX & m68k ports.Kenny Simpson for prompting libstdc++ fixes due to defect reports from the LWG (thereby keeping GCC in line with updates from the ISO).Franz Sirl for his ongoing work with making the PPC port stable for GNU/Linux.Andrey Slepuhin for assorted AIX hacking.Trevor Smigiel for contributing the SPU port.Christopher Smith did the port for Convex machines.Danny Smith for his major efforts on the Mingw (and Cygwin) ports.Randy Smith finished the Sun FPA support.Scott Snyder for queue, iterator, istream, and string fixes and libstdc++ testsuite entries. Also for providing the patch to G77 to add rudimentary support for INTEGER*1, INTEGER*2, and LOGICAL*1.Zdenek Sojka for running automated regression testing of GCC and reporting numerous bugs.Brad Spencer for contributions to the GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW technique.Richard Stallman, for writing the original GCC and launching the GNU project.Jan Stein of the Chalmers Computer Society provided support for Genix, as well as part of the 32000 machine description.Nigel Stephens for various mips16 related fixes/improvements.Jonathan Stone wrote the machine description for the Pyramid computer.Graham Stott for various infrastructure improvements.John Stracke for his Java HTTP protocol fixes.Mike Stump for his Elxsi port, G++ contributions over the years and more recently his vxworks contributionsJeff Sturm for Java porting help, bug fixes, and encouragement.Shigeya Suzuki for this fixes for the bsdi platforms.Ian Lance Taylor for the Go frontend, the initial mips16 and mips64 support, general configury hacking, fixincludes, etc.Holger Teutsch provided the support for the Clipper CPU.Gary Thomas for his ongoing work to make the PPC work for GNU/Linux.Philipp Thomas for random bug fixes throughout the compilerJason Thorpe for thread support in libstdc++ on NetBSD.Kresten Krab Thorup wrote the run time support for the Objective-C language and the fantastic Java bytecode interpreter.Michael Tiemann for random bug fixes, the first instruction scheduler, initial C++ support, function integration, NS32k, SPARC and M88k machine description work, delay slot scheduling.Andreas Tobler for his work porting libgcj to Darwin.Teemu Torma for thread safe exception handling support.Leonard Tower wrote parts of the parser, RTL generator, and RTL definitions, and of the VAX machine description.Daniel Towner and Hariharan Sandanagobalane contributed and maintain the picoChip port.Tom Tromey for internationalization support and for his many Java contributions and libgcj maintainership.Lassi Tuura for improvements to config.guess to determine HP processor types.Petter Urkedal for libstdc++ CXXFLAGS, math, and algorithms fixes.Andy Vaught for the design and initial implementation of the GNU Fortran front end.Brent Verner for work with the libstdc++ cshadow files and their associated configure steps.Todd Vierling for contributions for NetBSD ports.Jonathan Wakely for contributing libstdc++ Doxygen notes and XHTML guidance.Dean Wakerley for converting the install documentation from HTML to texinfo in time for GCC 3.0.Krister Walfridsson for random bug fixes.Feng Wang for contributions to GNU Fortran.Stephen M. Webb for time and effort on making libstdc++ shadow files work with the tricky Solaris 8+ headers, and for pushing the build-time header tree.John Wehle for various improvements for the x86 code generator, related infrastructure improvements to help x86 code generation, value range propagation and other work, WE32k port.Ulrich Weigand for work on the s390 port.Zack Weinberg for major work on cpplib and various other bug fixes.Matt Welsh for help with Linux Threads support in GCJ.Urban Widmark for help fixing java.io.Mark Wielaard for new Java library code and his work integrating with Classpath.Dale Wiles helped port GCC to the Tahoe.Bob Wilson from Tensilica, Inc. for the Xtensa port.Jim Wilson for his direction via the steering committee, tackling hard problems in various places that nobody else wanted to work on, strength reduction and other loop optimizations.Paul Woegerer and Tal Agmon for the CRX port.Carlo Wood for various fixes.Tom Wood for work on the m88k port.Canqun Yang for work on GNU Fortran.Masanobu Yuhara of Fujitsu Laboratories implemented the machine description for the Tron architecture (specifically, the Gmicro).Kevin Zachmann helped port GCC to the Tahoe.Ayal Zaks for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS).Xiaoqiang Zhang for work on GNU Fortran.Gilles Zunino for help porting Java to Irix.The following people are recognized for their contributions to GNAT, the Ada front end of GCC:Bernard BannerRomain BerrendonnerGeert BoschEmmanuel BriotJoel BrobeckerBen BrosgolVincent CelierArnaud CharletChien ChiengCyrille ComarCyrille CrozesRobert DewarGary DismukesRobert DuffEd FalisRamon FernandezSam FigueroaVasiliy FofanovMichael FriessFranco GasperoniTed GieringMatthew GingellLaurent GuerbyJerome GuittonOlivier HainqueJerome HuguesHristian KirtchevJerome LambourgBruno LeclercAlbert LeeSean McNeilJavier MirandaLaurent NanaPascal ObryDong-Ik OhLaurent PautetBrett PorterThomas QuinotNicolas RochePat RogersJose RuizDouglas RuppSergey RybinGail SchenkerEd SchonbergNicolas SettonSamuel TardieuThe following people are recognized for their contributions of new features, bug reports, testing and integration of classpath/libgcj for GCC version 4.1:Lillian Angel for JTree implementation and lots Free Swing additions and bug fixes.Wolfgang Baer for GapContent bug fixes.Anthony Balkissoon for JList, Free Swing 1.5 updates and mouse event fixes, lots of Free Swing work including JTable editing.Stuart Ballard for RMI constant fixes.Goffredo Baroncelli for HTTPURLConnection fixes.Gary Benson for MessageFormat fixes.Daniel Bonniot for Serialization fixes.Chris Burdess for lots of gnu.xml and http protocol fixes, StAX and DOM xml:id support.Ka-Hing Cheung for TreePath and TreeSelection fixes.Archie Cobbs for build fixes, VM interface updates, URLClassLoader updates.Kelley Cook for build fixes.Martin Cordova for Suggestions for better SocketTimeoutException.David Daney for BitSet bug fixes, HttpURLConnection rewrite and improvements.Thomas Fitzsimmons for lots of upgrades to the gtk+ AWT and Cairo 2D support. Lots of imageio framework additions, lots of AWT and Free Swing bug fixes.Jeroen Frijters for ClassLoader and nio cleanups, serialization fixes, better Proxy support, bug fixes and IKVM integration.Santiago Gala for AccessControlContext fixes.Nicolas Geoffray for VMClassLoader and AccessController improvements.David Gilbert for basic and metal icon and plaf support and lots of documenting, Lots of Free Swing and metal theme additions. MetalIconFactory implementation.Anthony Green for MIDI framework, ALSA and DSSI providers.Andrew Haley for Serialization and URLClassLoader fixes, gcj build speedups.Kim Ho for JFileChooser implementation.Andrew John Hughes for Locale and net fixes, URI RFC2986 updates, Serialization fixes, Properties XML support and generic branch work, VMIntegration guide update.Bastiaan Huisman for TimeZone bug fixing.Andreas Jaeger for mprec updates.Paul Jenner for better -Werror support.Ito Kazumitsu for NetworkInterface implementation and updates.Roman Kennke for BoxLayout, GrayFilter and SplitPane, plus bug fixes all over. Lots of Free Swing work including styled text.Simon Kitching for String cleanups and optimization suggestions.Michael Koch for configuration fixes, Locale updates, bug and build fixes.Guilhem Lavaux for configuration, thread and channel fixes and Kaffe integration. JCL native Pointer updates. Logger bug fixes.David Lichteblau for JCL support library global/local reference cleanups.Aaron Luchko for JDWP updates and documentation fixes.Ziga Mahkovec for Graphics2D upgraded to Cairo 0.5 and new regex features.Sven de Marothy for BMP imageio support, CSS and TextLayout fixes. GtkImage rewrite, 2D, awt, free swing and date/time fixes and implementing the Qt4 peers.Casey Marshall for crypto algorithm fixes, FileChannel lock, SystemLogger and FileHandler rotate implementations, NIO FileChannel.map support, security and policy updates.Bryce McKinlay for RMI work.Audrius Meskauskas for lots of Free Corba, RMI and HTML work plus testing and documenting.Kalle Olavi Niemitalo for build fixes.Rainer Orth for build fixes.Andrew Overholt for File locking fixes.Ingo Proetel for Image, Logger and URLClassLoader updates.Olga Rodimina for MenuSelectionManager implementation.Jan Roehrich for BasicTreeUI and JTree fixes.Julian Scheid for documentation updates and gjdoc support.Christian Schlichtherle for zip fixes and cleanups.Robert Schuster for documentation updates and beans fixes, TreeNode enumerations and ActionCommand and various fixes, XML and URL, AWT and Free Swing bug fixes.Keith Seitz for lots of JDWP work.Christian Thalinger for 64-bit cleanups, Configuration and VM interface fixes and CACAO integration, fdlibm updates.Gael Thomas for VMClassLoader boot packages support suggestions.Andreas Tobler for Darwin and Solaris testing and fixing, Qt4 support for Darwin/OS X, Graphics2D support, gtk+ updates.Dalibor Topic for better DEBUG support, build cleanups and Kaffe integration. Qt4 build infrastructure, SHA1PRNG and GdkPixbugDecoder updates.Tom Tromey for Eclipse integration, generics work, lots of bug fixes and gcj integration including coordinating The Big Merge.Mark Wielaard for bug fixes, packaging and release management, Clipboard implementation, system call interrupts and network timeouts and GdkPixpufDecoder fixes.In addition to the above, all of which also contributed time and energy in testing GCC, we would like to thank the following for their contributions to testing:Michael Abd-El-MalekThomas ArendBonzo ArmstrongSteven AsheChris BaldwinDavid BillinghurstJim BlandyStephane BortzmeyerHorst von BrandFrank BraunRodney BrownSidney CadotBradford CastaliaRobert ClarkJonathan CorbetRalph DoncasterRichard EmbersonLevente FarkasGraham FawcettMark FernyhoughRobert A. FrenchJörgen FreyhMark K. GardnerCharles-Antoine GauthierYung Shing GeneDavid GilbertSimon GornallFred GrayJohn GriffinPatrik HagglundPhil HargettAmancio HastyTakafumi HayashiBryan W. HeadleyKevin B. HendricksJoep JansenChristian JoenssonMichel KernDavid KiddTobias KuipersAnand KrishnaswamyA. O. V. Le BlancllewellyDamon LoveBrad LucierMatthias KloseMartin KnoblauchRick LutowskiJesse MacnishStefan MorrellAnon A. MousMatthias MuellerPekka NikanderRick NilesJon OlsonMagnus PerssonChris PollardRichard PoltonDerk ReefmanDavid ReesPaul ReillyTom ReillyTorsten RuegerDanny SadinoffMarc SchiferErik SchnetterWayne K. SchrollDavid SchulerVin SheltonTim SouderAdam SulmickiBill ThorsonGeorge TalbotPedro A. M. VazquezGregory WarnesIan WatsonDavid E. YoungAnd many othersAnd finally we'd like to thank everyone who uses the compiler, provides feedback and generally reminds us why we're doing this work in the first place.http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Contributors.html

Question: Why is Britain a monarchy?Because most of British prefer it that way. They are happy about it and this system works well for them, till date.Peter Hawkins and Andrew Roberts, two British Quorans have answered it well.WW I ended monarchy in many countries. But well before that event, the British monarchy had been weakened, by British themselves. The British parliament became increasingly more powerful in their decisions and the monarchy had its decision making powers greatly reduced over time. Now most of the decisions are made by the British PM, but he/ she rules in the name of the British monarch. The British don't dislike their monarch or monarchy system. So they let it continue.English Civil war was the seminal event that came close to doing that (dethroning the British monarch). In fact the then ruling monarch, Charles I was put to death by the parliament. But after sometime when there was chaos with a not so effective Parliamentary leadership they called Charles II, the son of Charles I. And after that 'they (British monarchs) lived happily ever after'. Not exactly, but sort of.

We are seeing what a Harris administration would look like right now.President Biden is clearly manifesting cognitive decline. He lost his ability to pretend his role as a congressman long ago, and we have since seen him struggling to be appear vice presidential and now presidential. He has again referred to Kamala Harris as “President Harris”.It would be unreasonable to believe that he is in charge of American domestic and foreign policy.When Kamala Harris finally takes over, I do not anticipate policies that are much more radical since they are already in the extremes. This is because while Biden is an ineffectual and easily manipulated, Harris is a political animal who will pursue whatever policies will elevate and maintain her political influence. Her history in California proves that she doesn’t particularly care what those policies are.The Democratic Party leadership of today is dangerously revanchist and is working to completely eliminate the contributions of Republican and independents who are not in line with leadership’s transformational policies.Many in Democratic leadership, like NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo, have said that America was never great. We have to hope that our enemies aren’t listening. Otherwise, they’ll mock us when we call out atrocities and genocides in their countries.