Credits
This page lists some of the people who have contributed to the Free Pascal compiler project. Of course, the list is not complete, as many, many people have used and helped us in the development of Free Pascal. We would like to thank all of you who submit bug reports (as well as patches) and generally encourage us to continue our work. It’s all very appreciated. ✨✨ Thanks for your contribution!✨✨
Direct Contributions
The following people made direct improvements to the compiler / runtime library and associated software.
Free Vision, Objects unit (rtl)
Netware port (rtl)
PowerPC routines (rtl)
Initial IDE development
serial (rtl), ggipgraph (rtl) and several units in FCL
OS/2 port, OS/2 maintenance (compiler,rtl)
Snapshot creation and maintenance
DOS unit for linux (rtl)
sparc port (compiler,rtl)
Mac OS Classic port (compiler, rtl), Mac Pascal dialect
Graph unit (rtl), GO32 unit (rtl), many other (compiler,rtl)
Objects unit (rtl), ex-mailing list administrator
Amiga port (rtl), debugging
Objects unit (rtl)
Graph unit (rtl)
Inifiles unit (fcl)
Object unit (rtl)
Sysutils unit (rtl)
MorphOS port (rtl)
Indirect Contributions
The following people helped us in a technical way.
Original softfloat package (converted to pascal, now used as FPU emulation layer)
Information on Macintoch Classic (m68k) architecture and on MPW 68k assembler
Original C code for generic math routines of RTL
Original Pascal code for generic math routines of RTL
m68k RTL routines (from Sozobon C)
Account for linux-m68k development
Original floodfill algorithm (graph unit)
XCode integration kit, Mac OS Universal Interfaces
clib m68k copy routines