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@node Contributors, Free Manuals, Platform, Top
@c %MENU% Who wrote what parts of the GNU C Library
@appendix Contributors to @theglibc{}

@Theglibc{} 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
file a bug in bugzilla if you have been left out or some of your
contributions are not listed.  Please keep this list in alphabetical
order.

@itemize @bullet

@item
Nick Alcock for contributing fixes to allow @theglibc{} to be built with the
stack smashing protector enabled.

@item
Rogerio Alves Cardoso for various fixes to PowerPC.

@item
Amrita H. S. for contributions to the PowerPC port.

@item
John David Anglin for various fixes and co-maintainership of the HPPA
port.

@item
Albert ARIBAUD for Y2038 related fixes.

@item
Ryan S. Arnold for his improvements for Linux on PowerPC and his direction
as FSF Project Steward for @theglibc{}.

@item
Arsen Arsenovi@'c for various fixes.

@item
Miles Bader for writing the @code{argp} argument-parsing package, and the
@code{argz}/@code{envz} interfaces.

@item
Ralf B@"achle for contributing @file{fpu_control.h},
@file{regdef.h}, @file{sgidefs.h}, @file{sys/asm.h}, and @file{sys/regdef.h}
under the @file{sysdeps/mips} directory.

@item
Jeff Bailey for his maintainership of the HPPA architecture.

@item
Frank Barrus for work on the threading library.

@item
Petr Baudis for bug fixes and testing.

@item
Fr@'ed@'eric B@'erat for numerous fixes and contributions.

@item
Peter Bergner for contributions to and maintainership of the PowerPC
port.

@item
Indu Bhagat for various fixes.

@item
Anton Blanchard for various fixes.

@item
Stephen R. van den Berg for contributing a highly-optimized
@code{strstr} function.

@item
Ond@v{r}ej B@'ilka for contributing optimized string routines for x64 and various
fixes.

@item
Eric Blake for adding O(n) implementations of @code{memmem},
@code{strstr} and @code{strcasestr}.

@item
Pierre Blanchard for contributing to the AArch64 port.

@item
Philip Blundell for the ports to Linux/ARM
(@code{arm-@var{ANYTHING}-linuxaout}) and ARM standalone
(@code{arm-@var{ANYTHING}-none}), as well as for parts of the IPv6
support code.

@item
Mahesh Bodapati for various fixes and optimizations for the Power
architecture.

@item
Per Bothner for the implementation of the @code{libio} library which
is used to implement @code{stdio} functions.

@item
Dridi Boukelmoune for various fixes.

@item
Mark Brown for his direction as part of @theglibc{} steering
committee.

@item
Sergey Bugaev for numerous contributions to Hurd.

@item
Thomas Bushnell for his contributions to Hurd.

@item
Yinyu Cai for their maintainership of the LoongArch port.

@item
Daniel Cederman for fixes to the Sparc port.

@item
Kito Cheng for various fixes.

@item
Paul Clarke for optimized functions on PowerPC.

@item
Alejandro Colomar for various fixes.

@item
Martin Coufal for various fixes.

@item
Mike Crowe for various fixes.

@item
Flavio Cruz for contributions to Hurd.

@item
Joana Cruz for contributions to the AArch64 port.

@item
Palmer Dabbelt for contributing the port to Linux/RISC-V.

@item
DJ Delorie for maintenance of Linux/RISC-V, and numerous fixes.

@item
Jianbo Deng for the work on the Loongson port.

@item
Wilco Dijkstra for various fixes and many improvements of the AArch64
port.

@item
Liubov Dmitrieva for optimized string and math functions on x86-64 and
x86.

@item
Michael Hudson Doyle for various fixes.

@item
Ulrich Drepper for his many contributions in almost all parts of
@theglibc{}, including:
@itemize @bullet
@item writing most of the POSIX Threads Library originally.
@item internationalization support, including the @code{locale} and
@code{localedef} utilities.
@item Linux i386/ELF support
@item the @code{hsearch} and @code{drand48} families of functions,
reentrant @samp{@dots{}@code{_r}} versions of the @code{random}
family; System V shared memory and IPC support code
@item several highly-optimized string functions for i@var{x}86
processors
@item many math functions
@item the character conversion functions (@code{iconv})
@item the @code{ftw} and @code{nftw} functions
@item the floating-point printing function used by @code{printf} and friends
and the floating-point reading function used by @code{scanf},
@code{strtod} and friends
@item the @code{catgets} support and the entire suite of multi-byte
and wide-character support functions (@file{wctype.h}, @file{wchar.h}, etc.).
@item versioning of objects on the symbol level
@end itemize

@item
Richard Earnshaw for continued support and fixes to the various ARM
machine files.

@item
Paul Eggert for the @code{mktime} function, for his direction as
part of @theglibc{} steering committee, and numerous fixes.

@item
Roy Eldar for various fixes.

@item
Steve Ellcey for various fixes.

@item
Mike FABIAN for automating Unicode updates, for updating the locale data
for ISO 14651, for updating the library Unicode support, and for many
locale updates and fixes.

@item
Gabi Falk for various fixes.

@item
Olaf Flebbe and Ralf B@"achle for contributing
@file{sysdeps/mips/fpu_control.h}.

@item
Alistair Francis for Y2038 related fixes.

@item
Mike Frysinger for his maintaining of the IA64 architecture and for
testing and bug fixing.

@item
Martin Galvan for contributing gdb pretty printer support to glibc and adding
an initial set of pretty printers for structures in the POSIX Threads library.

@item
Romain Geissler for various fixes.

@item
Michael Glad for the passphrase-hashing function @code{crypt} and related
functions (no longer part of glibc, but we still appreciate his work).

@item
Wolfram Gloger for contributing the memory allocation functions
functions @code{malloc}, @code{realloc} and @code{free} and related
code.

@item
Noah Goldstein for contributing extensive x86 / x86-64 optimizations.

@item
Gabriel F. T. Gomes for his improvements for Linux on PowerPC and for
implementing the IEEE 128-bit floating point type for PowerPC.

@item
Torbj@"orn Granlund for fast implementations of many of the string
functions (@code{memcpy}, @code{strlen}, etc.).

@item
Evan Green for work on the RISC-V port.

@item
Wangyang Guo for various contributions.

@item
Vineet Gupta for their maintainership of the ARC port.

@item
Michael J. Haertel for writing the merge sort function @code{qsort}
and malloc checking functions like @code{mcheck}.

@item
Bruno Haible for his improvements to the @code{iconv} and locale
implementations and various fixes.

@item
Mao Han for the C-SKY port.

@item
Richard Henderson for the port to Linux on Alpha
(@code{alpha-@var{anything}-linux}) and software floating-point support.

@item
David Holsgrove for the port to Linux on MicroBlaze.

@item
Leonhard Holz for various fixes.

@item
Stafford Horne for maintainership of the OpenRISC port.

@item
Ying Huang for work on the MIPS port.

@item
Guy-Fleury Iteriteka for many contributions to Hurd support.

@item
Daniel Jacobowitz for various fixes and enhancements.

@item
Andreas Jaeger for the port to Linux on x86-64
(@code{x86_64-@var{anything}-linux} and his work on Linux for MIPS
(@code{mips-@var{anything}-linux}), implementing the @file{ldconfig}
program, providing a test suite for the math library and for his
direction as part of @theglibc{} steering committee.

@item
Sam James for various fixes.

@item
Aurelien Jarno for various fixes.

@item
Rical Jasan for contributing various fixes in @theglibc{} manual.

@item
Michael Jeanson for the restartable sequences support.

@item
Jakub Jelinek for implementing a number of checking functions,
software floating-point support and for
his direction as part of @theglibc{} steering committee.

@item
Simon Josefsson for the @code{libidn} add-on.

@item
Geoffrey Keating for the port to Linux on PowerPC
(@code{powerpc-@var{anything}-linux}).

@item
Brendan Kehoe for contributing the port to the MIPS DECStation running
Ultrix 4 (@code{mips-dec-ultrix4}) and the port to the DEC Alpha
running OSF/1 (@code{alpha-dec-osf1}).

@item
Mark Kettenis for implementing the @code{utmpx} interface and a utmp
daemon, and for a Hesiod NSS module.

@item
Yury Khrustalev for work on the AArch64 port and various fixes.

@item
Simon Kissane for gmon improvements.

@item
Andi Kleen for implementing pthreads lock elision with TSX.

@item
Kazumoto Kojima for the port of the Mach and Hurd code to the MIPS
architecture (@code{mips-@var{anything}-gnu}) and for his work on the
SH architecture.

@item
Pavel Kozlov for maintainership of the ARC port.

@item
Maxim Kuvyrkov for various fixes.

@item
Andreas Krebbel for his work on Linux for s390 and s390x.

@item
Thorsten Kukuk for providing an implementation for NIS (YP) and NIS+,
securelevel 0, 1 and 2 and for the implementation for a caching daemon
for NSS (@file{nscd}).

@item
Akhilesh Kumar for various fixes to locales.

@item
Luna Lamb for contributions to the AArch64 port.

@item
Jeff Law for various fixes.

@item
Doug Lea for contributing the memory allocation functions
@code{malloc}, @code{realloc} and @code{free} and related
code.

@item
Chris Leonard for various fixes and enhancements to localedata.

@item
Ilya Leoshkevich for various fixes.

@item
Dmitry V. Levin for various fixes.

@item
Stefan Liebler for numerous fixes and the maintainership of the S390
port.

@item
Hongjiu Lu for providing the support for a Linux 32-bit runtime
environment under x86-64 (x32), for porting to Linux on IA64, for
improved string functions, a framework for testing IFUNC
implementations, for implementing Intel Control-Flow Enforcement
Technology, many x86-64 improvements, and many bug fixes.

@item
Rafa@l{} Lu@dotaccent{z}y@'nski
for contributing support for two grammatical forms of month
names, and for various fixes to locales.

@item
Maxim Kuvyrkov for various fixes.

@item
Luis Machado for optimized functions on PowerPC.

@item
David J. MacKenzie for his contribution to the @code{getopt}
function and writing the @file{tar.h} header.

@item
Lukasz Majewski for Y2038 related fixes.

@item
Miguel Mart@'in for contributed tests.

@item
Manjunath Matti for contributions to the PowerPC port.

@item
Greg McGary for adding runtime support for bounds checking.

@item
Roland McGrath for writing most of @theglibc{} originally, for his
work on the Hurd port, his direction as part of @theglibc{} steering
committee and as FSF Project Steward for @theglibc{}, and for many bug
fixes and reviewing of contributions.

@item
Allan McRae for various fixes.

@item
Meng Qinggang for contributions to the LoongArch port.

@item
Aaron Merey for contributed tests.

@item
Jason Merrill for the port to the Sequent Symmetry running Dynix
version 3 (@code{i386-sequent-bsd}).

@item
Chris Metcalf for the port to Linux/Tile
(@code{tilegx-@var{anything}-linux} and
@code{tilepro-@var{anything}-linux}) and support for the generic Linux
kernel syscall interface used by several newer ports.

@item
Jim Meyering for various fixes.

@item
David Miller for contributing the port to Linux/Sparc
(@code{sparc*-@var{anything}-linux}).

@item
Cupertino Miranda for various fixes.

@item
Alan Modra for his improvements for Linux on PowerPC.

@item
Sachin Monga for various fixes and contributions to the PowerPC port.

@item
David Mosberger-Tang for contributing the port to Linux/Alpha
(@code{alpha-@var{anything}-linux}).

@item
Wainer dos Santos Moschetta for various fixes to powerpc.

@item
Stephen Moshier for implementing some 128-bit long double format math
functions.

@item
Stephen Munroe for his port to Linux on PowerPC64
(@code{powerpc64-@var{anything}-linux}) and for adding optimized
implementations for PowerPC.

@item
Paul