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+This directory contains the GNU front-end for the Chill language,
+contributed by Cygnus Solutions.
+
+Chill is the "CCITT High-Level Language", where CCITT is the old
+name for what is now ITU, the International Telecommunications Union.
+It is is language in the Modula2 family, and targets many of the
+same applications as Ada (especially large embedded systems).
+Chill was never used much in the United States, but is still
+being used in Europe, Brazil, Korea, and other places.
+
+Chill has been standardized by a series of reports/standards.
+The GNU implementation mostly follows the 1988 version of
+the language, with some backwards compatibility options for
+the 1984 version, and some other extensions.  However, it
+does not implement all of the features of any standard.
+The most recent standard is ?, available from ?.
+
+The GNU Chill implementation is not being actively developed.
+Cygnus has one customer we are maintaining Chill for,
+but we are not planning on putting major work into Chill.
+This Net release is for educational purposes (as an example
+of a different Gcc front-end), and for those who find it useful.
+It is an unsupported hacker release.  Bug reports without
+patches are likely to get ignored.  Questions may get answered or
+ignored depending on our mood!  If you want to try your luck,
+you can send a note to David Brolley <brolley@cygnus.com> or
+Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com>.
+
+One known problem is that we only support native builds of GNU Chill.
+If you need a cross-compiler, you will find various problems,
+including the directory structure, and the setjmp-based exception
+handling mechanism.
+
+The Chill run-time system is in the runtime sub-directory.
+Notice rts.c contains a poor main's implementation of Chill
+"processes" (threads).  It is not added to libchill.a.
+We only use it for testing.  (Our customer uses a different
+implementation for product work.)
+
+The GNU Chill implementation was primarily written by
+Per Bothner, along with Bill Cox, Wilfried Moser, Michael
+Tiemann, and David Brolley.