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-- Dominique COLNET and Suzanne COLLIN -- colnet@loria.fr
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Thanks list.
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*** Olivier ZENDRA: many advices and discussion about the langage, 
   anchored types, memcp of ANSI C, realloc/malloc, garbage 
   collection, ... and was here for the really first bootstrap. 
   Work with me on the problem of double/float conversion.
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**  Cyril ADRIAN: fixed some bugs in STD_FILE_READ (read_character,
   read_integer). Find bug of test_req2.e. Problem with xor.
   Author of spread_illness. Find a bug in character constants, etc.
**  Thierry DE CARVALHO: find a bug in inspect/when. Correct a bug
   in STD_FILE_READ.connect_to.
**  Emmanuel CECCHET: for Updating of the Linux executable. Find
   some bugs in creation calls and for a lot comments.
**  Philippe COUCAUD: in charge of the Macintosh version. Reported
   some bugs.
**  Xavier GREGUT: reported (in a very small program) a tricky
   bug dealing with inheritance/genericity and VNCG rule.
**  Valery CROIZIER: for some bug reports (in many many mails :-), 
   and for some hints to optimize the C code.
**  Andre DOHERTY: the SmallEiffel version ready for OS2.
**  Antony LE LABOUSSE: (see Cyril ADRIAN).
**  Antoine GUARRIGUES: (see Philippe RIBET).
**  Philippe RIBET: fixed a bug in the ensure clause of
   INTEGER/append_in_format, optimize INTEGER/gcd. Prepared the
   first precompiled DOS version.
**  Jean-Marc JEZEQUEL: reported some bugs on ARRAY inheritance.
   Isolate a bug on VNCG. Beta testing.
**  Marc SCALZOLARO: report some bugs and added some test 
   for expanded class types.
**  Brian STRELIOFF: reported some bugs and for giving me some 
   good hints for comptibility with C++ and warning message of
   gcc.
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*   Christophe ALEXANDRE: find a bug in REAL.put_real_format.
*   Frank ARNAUD: bug report of test_tag1.e 
*   Romaric CHARTON: find two bugs in ifthenelse expression, and
   argument checking of external feature.
*   Stephane D'ALU: added some features in STRING (split, ...).
*   Joel FAEDI: (not yet) solved some problems using gcc.
*   Brigitte JARAY: one of the first Beta testing girl.
*   Zahi Al JAMOUS: find a syntaxical bug, and some others.
*   Stephane JANTZEN: beta testing of external.
*   Mostefa KASSAB: bug reporting of test_deferred3.e
*   Nicole LEVY: find some syntactical bug doing a core dump.
*   Masato MOGAKI: reported a bug with $ operator.
*   Jean-Louis NeBUT: reported bug checked by test_rename3.
*   Francois RAGUIN: isolate a bug of REAL.infix "^"
*   Claude SANCHEZ: allow me to use more memory to be able to
   do the very first bootstrap.
*   Dan WILDER: help me to diffuse SmallEiffel on Linux