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      2 Julian Seward was the original founder, designer and author of
      3 Valgrind, created the dynamic translation frameworks, wrote Memcheck,
      4 the 3.X versions of Helgrind, Ptrcheck, DHAT, and did lots of other
      5 things.
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      7 Nicholas Nethercote did the core/tool generalisation, wrote
      8 Cachegrind and Massif, and tons of other stuff.
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     10 Tom Hughes did a vast number of bug fixes, helped out with support for
     11 more recent Linux/glibc versions, set up the present build system, and has
     12 helped out with test and build machines.
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     14 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote Helgrind (in the 2.X line) and totally
     15 overhauled low-level syscall/signal and address space layout stuff,
     16 among many other things.
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     18 Josef Weidendorfer wrote and maintains Callgrind and the associated
     19 KCachegrind GUI.
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     21 Paul Mackerras did a lot of the initial per-architecture factoring
     22 that forms the basis of the 3.0 line and was also seen in 2.4.0.
     23 He also did UCode-based dynamic translation support for PowerPC, and
     24 created a set of ppc-linux derivatives of the 2.X release line.
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     26 Greg Parker wrote the Mac OS X port.
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     28 Dirk Mueller contributed the malloc/free mismatch checking
     29 and other bits and pieces, and acts as our KDE liaison.
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     31 Robert Walsh added file descriptor leakage checking, new library
     32 interception machinery, support for client allocation pools, and minor
     33 other tweakage.
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     35 Bart Van Assche wrote and maintains DRD.
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     37 Cerion Armour-Brown worked on PowerPC instruction set support in the
     38 Vex dynamic-translation framework.  Maynard Johnson improved the
     39 Power6 support.
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     41 Kirill Batuzov and Dmitry Zhurikhin did the NEON instruction set
     42 support for ARM.  Donna Robinson did the v6 media instruction support.
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     44 Donna Robinson created and maintains the very excellent
     45 http://www.valgrind.org.
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     47 Vince Weaver wrote and maintains BBV.
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     49 Frederic Gobry helped with autoconf and automake.
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     51 Daniel Berlin modified readelf's dwarf2 source line reader, written by Nick
     52 Clifton, for use in Valgrind.o
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     54 Michael Matz and Simon Hausmann modified the GNU binutils demangler(s) for
     55 use in Valgrind.
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     57 David Woodhouse has helped out with test and build machines over the course
     58 of many releases.
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     60 Florian Krohm and Christian Borntraeger wrote and maintain the
     61 S390X/Linux port.  Florian improved and ruggedised the regression test
     62 system during 2011.
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     64 Philippe Waroquiers wrote and maintains the embedded GDB server.  He
     65 also made a bunch of performance and memory-reduction fixes across
     66 diverse parts of the system.
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     68 Maynard Johnson contributed IBM Power6 and Power7 support, and generally
     69 deals with ppc64-linux issues.
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     71 Many, many people sent bug reports, patches, and helpful feedback.
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     73 Development of Valgrind was supported in part by the Tri-Lab Partners
     74 (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National
     75 Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories) of the U.S. Department
     76 of Energy's Advanced Simulation & Computing (ASC) Program.
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