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njn8762df72009-06-12 07:38:24 +0000[diff] [blame]2Julian Seward was the original founder, designer and author of Valgrind,
3created the dynamic translation frameworks, wrote Memcheck and 3.3.X
4Helgrind, and did lots of other things.
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6Nicholas Nethercote did the core/tool generalisation, wrote
7Cachegrind and Massif, and tons of other stuff.
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9Tom Hughes did a vast number of bug fixes, helped out with support for
10more recent Linux/glibc versions, set up the present build system, and has
11helped out with test and build machines.
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sewardj778d7832007-11-22 01:21:56 +0000[diff] [blame]13Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote Helgrind (in the 2.X line) and totally
14overhauled low-level syscall/signal and address space layout stuff,
15among many other things.
jseward77bb64a2004-07-16 21:35:09 +0000[diff] [blame]16
njn801288e2009-08-04 07:02:54 +0000[diff] [blame^]17Josef Weidendorfer wrote and maintains Callgrind and the associated
18KCachegrind GUI.
sewardjfa7c30e2005-07-27 10:09:11 +0000[diff] [blame]19
20Paul Mackerras did a lot of the initial per-architecture factoring
njn801288e2009-08-04 07:02:54 +0000[diff] [blame^]21that forms the basis of the 3.0 line and was also seen in 2.4.0.
sewardjfa7c30e2005-07-27 10:09:11 +0000[diff] [blame]22He also did UCode-based dynamic translation support for PowerPC, and
23created a set of ppc-linux derivatives of the 2.X release line.
nethercote137bc552003-11-14 17:47:54 +0000[diff] [blame]24
njn8762df72009-06-12 07:38:24 +0000[diff] [blame]25Greg Parker wrote the Mac OS X port.
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njn801288e2009-08-04 07:02:54 +0000[diff] [blame^]27Dirk Mueller contributed the malloc/free mismatch checking
28and other bits and pieces, and acts as our KDE liaison.
njnbcea91a2005-03-12 02:39:36 +0000[diff] [blame]29
sewardjfa7c30e2005-07-27 10:09:11 +0000[diff] [blame]30Robert Walsh added file descriptor leakage checking, new library
31interception machinery, support for client allocation pools, and minor
32other tweakage.
njnbcea91a2005-03-12 02:39:36 +0000[diff] [blame]33
njn8762df72009-06-12 07:38:24 +0000[diff] [blame]34Bart Van Assche wrote and maintains DRD.
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36Cerion Armour-Brown worked on PowerPC instruction set support in
37the Vex dynamic-translation framework.
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39Donna Robinson created and maintains the very excellent
40http://www.valgrind.org.
sewardj96603322006-05-21 15:19:42 +0000[diff] [blame]41
njn801288e2009-08-04 07:02:54 +0000[diff] [blame^]42Vince Weaver wrote and maintains BBV.
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njnbcea91a2005-03-12 02:39:36 +0000[diff] [blame]44Frederic Gobry helped with autoconf and automake.
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46Daniel Berlin modified readelf's dwarf2 source line reader, written by Nick
njn8762df72009-06-12 07:38:24 +0000[diff] [blame]47Clifton, for use in Valgrind.o
sewardj3c23d432002-06-01 23:43:49 +0000[diff] [blame]48
njn8762df72009-06-12 07:38:24 +0000[diff] [blame]49Michael Matz and Simon Hausmann modified the GNU binutils demangler(s) for
50use in Valgrind.
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njn8762df72009-06-12 07:38:24 +0000[diff] [blame]52David Woodhouse has helped out with test and build machines over the course
53of many releases.
sewardjcb2288b2007-12-02 02:08:17 +0000[diff] [blame]54
njn8762df72009-06-12 07:38:24 +0000[diff] [blame]55Many, many people sent bug reports, patches, and helpful feedback.
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57Development of Valgrind was supported in part by the Tri-Lab Partners
58(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National
59Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories) of the U.S. Department
60of Energy's Advanced Simulation & Computing (ASC) Program.