C.6. Tools that were used to create MySQL

MySQL 5.0

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C.6. Tools that were used to create MySQL

The following is a list of some of the tools we have used to create MySQL. We use this to express our thanks to those that has created them as without these we could not have made MySQL what it is today.

  • Free Software Foundation

    From whom we got an excellent compiler (gcc), an excellent debugger (gdb and the library (from which we have borrowed to get some code working in Linux).

  • Free Software Foundation & The XEmacs development team

    For a really great editor/environment used by almost everybody at MySQL AB.

  • Julian Seward

    Author of , an excellent memory checker tool that has helped us find a lot of otherwise hard to find bugs in MySQL.

  • Dorothea Lütkehaus and Andreas Zeller

    For (The Data Display Debugger) which is an excellent graphical front end to gdb).

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