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sewardje089f012010-10-13 21:47:29 +0000[diff] [blame]2Julian Seward was the original founder, designer and author of
3Valgrind, created the dynamic translation frameworks, wrote Memcheck,
florian0f0ed672011-11-26 04:05:47 +0000[diff] [blame]4the 3.X versions of Helgrind, SGCheck, DHAT, and did lots of other
sewardje089f012010-10-13 21:47:29 +0000[diff] [blame]5things.
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7Nicholas Nethercote did the core/tool generalisation, wrote
8Cachegrind and Massif, and tons of other stuff.
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10Tom Hughes did a vast number of bug fixes, helped out with support for
11more recent Linux/glibc versions, set up the present build system, and has
12helped out with test and build machines.
sewardj3c23d432002-06-01 23:43:49 +0000[diff] [blame]13
sewardj778d7832007-11-22 01:21:56 +0000[diff] [blame]14Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote Helgrind (in the 2.X line) and totally
15overhauled low-level syscall/signal and address space layout stuff,
16among many other things.
jseward77bb64a2004-07-16 21:35:09 +0000[diff] [blame]17
njn801288e2009-08-04 07:02:54 +0000[diff] [blame]18Josef Weidendorfer wrote and maintains Callgrind and the associated
19KCachegrind GUI.
sewardjfa7c30e2005-07-27 10:09:11 +0000[diff] [blame]20
21Paul Mackerras did a lot of the initial per-architecture factoring
njn801288e2009-08-04 07:02:54 +0000[diff] [blame]22that 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]23He also did UCode-based dynamic translation support for PowerPC, and
24created a set of ppc-linux derivatives of the 2.X release line.
nethercote137bc552003-11-14 17:47:54 +0000[diff] [blame]25
njn8762df72009-06-12 07:38:24 +0000[diff] [blame]26Greg Parker wrote the Mac OS X port.
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njn801288e2009-08-04 07:02:54 +0000[diff] [blame]28Dirk Mueller contributed the malloc/free mismatch checking
29and other bits and pieces, and acts as our KDE liaison.
njnbcea91a2005-03-12 02:39:36 +0000[diff] [blame]30
sewardjfa7c30e2005-07-27 10:09:11 +0000[diff] [blame]31Robert Walsh added file descriptor leakage checking, new library
32interception machinery, support for client allocation pools, and minor
33other tweakage.
njnbcea91a2005-03-12 02:39:36 +0000[diff] [blame]34
njn8762df72009-06-12 07:38:24 +0000[diff] [blame]35Bart Van Assche wrote and maintains DRD.
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sewardje089f012010-10-13 21:47:29 +0000[diff] [blame]37Cerion Armour-Brown worked on PowerPC instruction set support in the
38Vex dynamic-translation framework. Maynard Johnson improved the
39Power6 support.
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41Kirill Batuzov and Dmitry Zhurikhin did the NEON instruction set
42support for ARM. Donna Robinson did the v6 media instruction support.
njn8762df72009-06-12 07:38:24 +0000[diff] [blame]43
44Donna Robinson created and maintains the very excellent
45http://www.valgrind.org.
sewardj96603322006-05-21 15:19:42 +0000[diff] [blame]46
njn801288e2009-08-04 07:02:54 +0000[diff] [blame]47Vince Weaver wrote and maintains BBV.
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njnbcea91a2005-03-12 02:39:36 +0000[diff] [blame]49Frederic Gobry helped with autoconf and automake.
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51Daniel Berlin modified readelf's dwarf2 source line reader, written by Nick
njn8762df72009-06-12 07:38:24 +0000[diff] [blame]52Clifton, for use in Valgrind.o
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njn8762df72009-06-12 07:38:24 +0000[diff] [blame]54Michael Matz and Simon Hausmann modified the GNU binutils demangler(s) for
55use in Valgrind.
sewardj3c23d432002-06-01 23:43:49 +0000[diff] [blame]56
njn8762df72009-06-12 07:38:24 +0000[diff] [blame]57David Woodhouse has helped out with test and build machines over the course
58of many releases.
sewardjcb2288b2007-12-02 02:08:17 +0000[diff] [blame]59
sewardj40673402011-10-23 09:55:34 +0000[diff] [blame]60Florian Krohm and Christian Borntraeger wrote and maintain the
61S390X/Linux port. Florian improved and ruggedised the regression test
62system during 2011.
63
64Philippe Waroquiers wrote and maintains the embedded GDB server. He
65also made a bunch of performance and memory-reduction fixes across
66diverse parts of the system.
67
sewardjca456c72012-08-05 13:44:15 +0000[diff] [blame]68Carl Love and Maynard Johnson contributed IBM Power6 and Power7
69support, and generally deal with ppc{32,64}-linux issues.
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71Petar Jovanovic and Dejan Jevtic wrote and maintain the mips32-linux
72port.
73
74Dragos Tatulea modified the arm-android port so it also works on
75x86-android.
sewardj83baa942011-10-23 09:57:26 +0000[diff] [blame]76
sewardj4c7254d2013-11-29 23:08:28 +0000[diff] [blame]77Jakub Jelinek helped out extensively with the AVX and AVX2 support.
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79Mark Wielaard fixed a bunch of bugs and acts as our Fedora/RHEL
80liaison.
sewardje060f6a2012-08-05 16:14:02 +0000[diff] [blame]81
sewardj26ea8672013-11-29 16:55:04 +0000[diff] [blame]82Maran Pakkirisamy implemented support for decimal floating point on
83s390.
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njn8762df72009-06-12 07:38:24 +0000[diff] [blame]85Many, many people sent bug reports, patches, and helpful feedback.
86
87Development of Valgrind was supported in part by the Tri-Lab Partners
88(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National
89Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories) of the U.S. Department
90of Energy's Advanced Simulation & Computing (ASC) Program.