Folks -- It's been a long time since I've posted to the GCC mailing list because (as is rather obvious) I haven't been directly involved in GCC development for quite some time. As of today, I'm no longer at Mentor Graphics (the company that acquired CodeSourcery), so I no longer even have a management role in a company involved in GCC development. And, as I don't have plans to be involved in GCC development in the foreseeable future, it seems best to admit that I'm no longer a maintainer of GCC. I've also tendered my resignation to the GCC Steering Committee. David Edelsohn has kindly agreed to make the requisite changes to the MAINTAINERS file on my behalf.
GCC has been an interest of mine for a very long time, beginning with the point at which I convinced a previous employer to deploy it as a cross-platform compiler solution because we were having so many problems with incompatibility between the various proprietary compilers we were using. Of course, GCC itself still had a few bugs left at that point, so I fixed one or two, and, later, when I should have been writing papers in graduate school, I implemented some C++ template features (with much help from Jason Merrill and others) instead, and, eventually became very involved in the development of GCC. I'll of course remain interested in GCC, even if more as an observer than as a participant! I'd very much like to thank all who are, have been, or will be developers and maintainers of GCC. Of course, I'm particularly grateful to those who reviewed my patches, fixed the bugs I introduced, endured my nit-picking reviews of their patches, and so forth. But, there are literally hundreds of you -- perhaps thousands -- who have contributed, and I'd like to thank all of you; your contributions and your community gave me the opportunity to have a ton of fun. Thank you, -- Mark Mitchell
