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Credits
=======

The vast majority of PDCLib is original work by me. I felt it was the only way
to ensure that the code was indeed free of third-party rights, and thus free to
be released into the Public Domain.

Another issue was that of coding style, quality and stability of the code, and
the urge to really understand every miniscule part of the code as to be able to
maintain it well once v1.0 has been released.

That is not to say there are no credits to be given. To the contrary:

Paul Edwards (author of the PDPCLIB), for inspirational code fragments, thanks.

P.J. Plauger (author of "The Standard C Library"), for a book without which I
would not have been able to create PDCLib at this quality, thanks.

Arthur David Olson et al., for their work on the Time Zone Database and the
tzcode reference implementation on which most of PDCLib's time functions are
based, thanks.

Paul Bourke (author of mathlib), for allowing me access to a complete math
library under public domain terms so I could use it as a reference, thanks.

Peter ("Candy") Bindels (netizen of osdev.org), who located a copy of Cody
& Waite's "Software Manual for the Elementary Functions" for me and saved me
serious cash in the process, thanks.

Michael Moody, who contributed the generic implementation for <stdarg.h> to
the Public Domain which can now be found in <_PDCLIB_config.h>, thanks.

Rod Pemberton, for pointing out several flaws in early versions of PDCLib and
giving other valuable hints, thanks.

Brian Damgaard, for a very friendly exchange over the fine details of the
Quicksort algorithm and its implementation in PDCLib, thanks.

Rink Springer, for very precise bug reports including patches, a heads-up on
the capabilities of PDCLib when I most needed it, and for pushing me back in
the driver's seat, thanks.

Giovanni Mascellani, for his finding a bug in the strto*l() functions, thanks.

Stefan Schmidt, of the NXDK project, which adopted PDCLib as their system
library, and who contributed several valuable bug reports, suggestions, and
reminders to keep working on it, thanks.

Everyone involved in the first, "public" attempt at PDCLib, for bearing with me
when I restarted from scratch, thanks.

Everyone bearing with me during the "stdio block", a period of many years in
which PDCLib received not a single update because I was stuck and could not
find the time and energy to work it out, thanks.

Lennart Frid�n and Sammy Nordstr�m, who have been great pals even after I sunk
some other project that had eaten countless hours of work between the three of
us, thanks.

My wife, daughter, and son for sharing husband and daddy with this strange
machine, thanks.


Style
=====

I followed a set of guidelines in creating PDCLib. If you find some piece that
does not adhere to them, that's a bug worth reporting. I mean it. I am a bit
obsessive when it comes to coding style. ;-)

- All the stuff that is not part of the standard specification is "hidden" in
  the _PDCLIB_* namespace - functions, variables, macros, files, directories.
  This is to make it easier to distinguish between what the standard dictates
  and what I added to make PDCLib work.