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| Julian Seward was the original founder, designer and author of |
| Valgrind, created the dynamic translation frameworks, wrote Memcheck, |
| the 3.X versions of Helgrind, SGCheck, DHAT, and did lots of other |
| things. |
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| Nicholas Nethercote did the core/tool generalisation, wrote |
| Cachegrind and Massif, and tons of other stuff. |
| |
| Tom Hughes did a vast number of bug fixes, helped out with support for |
| more recent Linux/glibc versions, set up the present build system, and has |
| helped out with test and build machines. |
| |
| Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote Helgrind (in the 2.X line) and totally |
| overhauled low-level syscall/signal and address space layout stuff, |
| among many other things. |
| |
| Josef Weidendorfer wrote and maintains Callgrind and the associated |
| KCachegrind GUI. |
| |
| Paul Mackerras did a lot of the initial per-architecture factoring |
| that forms the basis of the 3.0 line and was also seen in 2.4.0. |
| He also did UCode-based dynamic translation support for PowerPC, and |
| created a set of ppc-linux derivatives of the 2.X release line. |
| |
| Greg Parker wrote the Mac OS X port. |
| |
| Dirk Mueller contributed the malloc/free mismatch checking |
| and other bits and pieces, and acts as our KDE liaison. |
| |
| Robert Walsh added file descriptor leakage checking, new library |
| interception machinery, support for client allocation pools, and minor |
| other tweakage. |
| |
| Bart Van Assche wrote and maintains DRD. |
| |
| Cerion Armour-Brown worked on PowerPC instruction set support in the |
| Vex dynamic-translation framework. Maynard Johnson improved the |
| Power6 support. |
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| Kirill Batuzov and Dmitry Zhurikhin did the NEON instruction set |
| support for ARM. Donna Robinson did the v6 media instruction support. |
| |
| Donna Robinson created and maintains the very excellent |
| http://www.valgrind.org. |
| |
| Vince Weaver wrote and maintains BBV. |
| |
| Frederic Gobry helped with autoconf and automake. |
| |
| Daniel Berlin modified readelf's dwarf2 source line reader, written by Nick |
| Clifton, for use in Valgrind.o |
| |
| Michael Matz and Simon Hausmann modified the GNU binutils demangler(s) for |
| use in Valgrind. |
| |
| David Woodhouse has helped out with test and build machines over the course |
| of many releases. |
| |
| Florian Krohm and Christian Borntraeger wrote and maintain the |
| S390X/Linux port. Florian improved and ruggedised the regression test |
| system during 2011. |
| |
| Philippe Waroquiers wrote and maintains the embedded GDB server. He |
| also made a bunch of performance and memory-reduction fixes across |
| diverse parts of the system. |
| |
| Carl Love and Maynard Johnson contributed IBM Power6 and Power7 |
| support, and generally deal with ppc{32,64}-linux issues. |
| |
| Petar Jovanovic and Dejan Jevtic wrote and maintain the mips32-linux |
| port. |
| |
| Dragos Tatulea modified the arm-android port so it also works on |
| x86-android. |
| |
| Jakub Jelinek helped out extensively with the AVX and AVX2 support. |
| |
| Mark Wielaard fixed a bunch of bugs and acts as our Fedora/RHEL |
| liaison. |
| |
| Maran Pakkirisamy implemented support for decimal floating point on |
| s390. |
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| Many, many people sent bug reports, patches, and helpful feedback. |
| |
| Development of Valgrind was supported in part by the Tri-Lab Partners |
| (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National |
| Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories) of the U.S. Department |
| of Energy's Advanced Simulation & Computing (ASC) Program. |