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