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This file is a partial list of people who have contributed to the LLVM
project.  If you have contributed a patch or made some other contribution to
LLVM, please submit a patch to this file to add yourself, and it will be 
done!

The list is sorted by name and formatted to allow easy grepping and
beautification by scripts.  The fields are: name (N), email (E), web-address
(W), PGP key ID and fingerprint (P), description (D), and snail-mail address
(S).

N: Vikram Adve
E: vadve@cs.uiuc.edu
W: http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/~vadve/
D: The Sparc64 backend, provider of much wisdom, and motivator for LLVM

N: Owen Anderson
E: resistor@mac.com
D: LCSSA pass and related LoopUnswitch work
D: GVNPRE pass, TargetData refactoring, random improvements

N: Henrik Bach
D: MingW Win32 API portability layer

N: Nate Begeman
E: natebegeman@mac.com
D: PowerPC backend developer
D: Target-independent code generator and analysis improvements

N: Daniel Berlin
E: dberlin@dberlin.org
D: ET-Forest implementation.
D: Sparse bitmap

N: Neil Booth
E: neil@daikokuya.co.uk
D: APFloat implementation.  

N: Misha Brukman
E: brukman+llvm@uiuc.edu
W: http://misha.brukman.net
D: Portions of X86 and Sparc JIT compilers, PowerPC backend
D: Incremental bytecode loader

N: Cameron Buschardt
E: buschard@uiuc.edu
D: The `mem2reg' pass - promotes values stored in memory to registers

N: Chandler Carruth
E: chandlerc@gmail.com
D: LinkTimeOptimizer for Linux, via binutils integration, and C API

N: Casey Carter
E: ccarter@uiuc.edu
D: Fixes to the Reassociation pass, various improvement patches

N: Evan Cheng
E: evan.cheng@apple.com
D: ARM and X86 backends
D: Instruction scheduler improvements
D: Register allocator improvements
D: Loop optimizer improvements
D: Target-independent code generator improvements

N: Jeff Cohen
E: jeffc@jolt-lang.org
W: http://jolt-lang.org
D: Native Win32 API portability layer

N: John T. Criswell
E: criswell@uiuc.edu
D: Original Autoconf support, documentation improvements, bug fixes

N: Rafael Avila de Espindola
E: rafael.espindola@gmail.com
D: The ARM backend

N: Alkis Evlogimenos
E: alkis@evlogimenos.com
D: Linear scan register allocator, many codegen improvements, Java frontend

N: Brian Gaeke
E: gaeke@uiuc.edu
W: http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~gaeke/
D: Portions of X86 static and JIT compilers; initial SparcV8 backend
D: Dynamic trace optimizer 
D: FreeBSD/X86 compatibility fixes, the llvm-nm tool

N: Nicolas Geoffray
E: nicolas.geoffray@lip6.fr
W: http://www-src.lip6.fr/homepages/Nicolas.Geoffray/
D: PPC backend fixes for Linux

N: Louis Gerbarg
D: Portions of the PowerPC backend

N: Saem Ghani
E: saemghani@gmail.com
D: Callgraph class cleanups

N: Mikhail Glushenkov
E: foldr@codedgers.com
D: Author of llvmc2

N: Dan Gohman
E: gohman@apple.com
D: Miscellaneous bug fixes

N: David Greene
E: greened@obbligato.org
D: Miscellaneous bug fixes
D: Register allocation refactoring

N: Gabor Greif
E: ggreif@gmail.com
D: Improvements for space efficiency

N: Gordon Henriksen
E: gordonhenriksen@mac.com
D: Pluggable GC support
D: C interface
D: Ocaml bindings

N: Raul Fernandes Herbster
E: raul@dsc.ufcg.edu.br
D: JIT support for ARM

N: Paolo Invernizzi
E: arathorn@fastwebnet.it
D: Visual C++ compatibility fixes 

N: Patrick Jenkins
E: patjenk@wam.umd.edu
D: Nightly Tester

N: Brad Jones
E: kungfoomaster@nondot.org
D: Support for packed types

N: Dale Johannesen
E: dalej@apple.com
D: ARM constant islands improvements
D: Tail merging improvements
D: Rewrite X87 back end
D: Use APFloat for floating point constants widely throughout compiler
D: Implement X87 long double

N: Eric Kidd
W: http://randomhacks.net/
D: llvm-config script

N: Anton Korobeynikov
E: asl@math.spbu.ru
D: Mingw32 fixes, cross-compiling support, stdcall/fastcall calling conv.
D: x86/linux PIC codegen, aliases, regparm/visibility attributes
D: Switch lowering refactoring

N: Sumant Kowshik
E: kowshik@uiuc.edu
D: Author of the original C backend

N: Christopher Lamb
E: christopher.lamb@gmail.com
D: aligned load/store support, parts of noalias and restrict support
D: vreg subreg infrastructure, X86 codegen improvements based on subregs
D: address spaces

N: Jim Laskey
E: jlaskey@apple.com
D: Improvements to the PPC backend, instruction scheduling
D: Debug and Dwarf implementation
D: Auto upgrade mangler 
D: llvm-gcc4 svn wrangler

N: Chris Lattner
E: sabre@nondot.org
W: http://nondot.org/~sabre/
D: Primary architect of LLVM

N: Tanya Lattner (Tanya Brethour)
E: tonic@nondot.org
W: http://nondot.org/~tonic/
D: The initial llvm-ar tool, converted regression testsuite to dejagnu
D: Modulo scheduling in the SparcV9 backend
D: Release manager (1.7+)

N: Andrew Lenharth
E: alenhar2@cs.uiuc.edu
W: http://www.lenharth.org/~andrewl/
D: Alpha backend
D: Sampling based profiling

N: Nick Lewycky
E: nicholas@mxc.ca
D: PredicateSimplifier pass

N: Bruno Cardoso Lopes
E: bruno.cardoso@gmail.com
W: http://www.brunocardoso.org
D: The Mips backend

N: Duraid Madina
E: duraid@octopus.com.au
W: http://kinoko.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~duraid/
D: IA64 backend, BigBlock register allocator

N: Michael McCracken
E: michael.mccracken@gmail.com
D: Line number support for llvmgcc

N: Vladimir Merzliakov
E: wanderer@rsu.ru
D: Test suite fixes for FreeBSD

N: Scott Michel
E: scottm@aero.org
D: Added STI Cell SPU backend.

N: Morten Ofstad
E: morten@hue.no
D: Visual C++ compatibility fixes 

N: Devang Patel
E: dpatel@apple.com
D: LTO tool, PassManager rewrite, Loop Pass Manager, Loop Rotate
D: GCC PCH Integration (llvm-gcc), llvm-gcc improvements
D: Optimizer improvements, Loop Index Split

N: Vladimir Prus
W: http://vladimir_prus.blogspot.com
E: ghost@cs.msu.su
D: Made inst_iterator behave like a proper iterator, LowerConstantExprs pass

N: Roman Samoilov
E: roman@codedgers.com
D: MSIL backend

N: Duncan Sands
E: baldrick@free.fr
D: Ada front-end, exception handling improvements

N: Ruchira Sasanka
E: sasanka@uiuc.edu
D: Graph coloring register allocator for the Sparc64 backend

N: Arnold Schwaighofer
E: arnold.schwaighofer@gmail.com
D: Tail call optimization for the x86 backend

N: Anand Shukla
E: ashukla@cs.uiuc.edu
D: The `paths' pass

N: Reid Spencer
E: rspencer@reidspencer.com
W: http://reidspencer.com/
D: Lots of stuff, see: http://wiki.llvm.org/index.php/User:Reid

N: Adam Treat
E: manyoso@yahoo.com
D: C++ bugs filed, and C++ front-end bug fixes.

N: Lauro Ramos Venancio
E: lauro.venancio@indt.org.br
D: ARM backend improvements
D: Thread Local Storage implementation

N: Bill Wendling
E: isanbard@gmail.com
D: Machine LICM
D: Darwin exception handling
D: MMX & SSSE3 instructions
D: SPEC2006 support