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+See ../README.
+
+This is the runtime support library for the Go programming language.
+This library is intended for use with the Go frontend.
+
+The library has only been tested on GNU/Linux using glibc. It should
+not be difficult to port to other operating systems.
+
+The library has only been tested on x86/x86_64 systems. It should not
+be difficult to port to other architectures.
+
+Directories:
+
+go
+ A copy of the Go library from http://golang.org/, with a few
+ changes for gccgo. Notably, the reflection interface is different.
+
+runtime
+ Runtime functions, written in C, which are called directly by the
+ compiler or by the library.
+
+syscalls
+ System call support.
+
+Contributing
+============
+
+To contribute patches to the files in this directory, please see
+http://golang.org/doc/gccgo_contribute.html .
+
+Changes to these files require a copyright assignment to Google. This
+is required to permit the changes to be copied to the gcc repository,
+as Google has a copyright assignment with the Free Software
+Foundation.
+
+If you are the copyright holder, you will need to agree to the
+individual contributor license agreement at
+http://code.google.com/legal/individual-cla-v1.0.html. This agreement
+can be completed online.
+
+If your organization is the copyright holder, the organization will
+need to agree to the corporate contributor license agreement at
+http://code.google.com/legal/corporate-cla-v1.0.html.
+
+If the copyright holder for your code has already completed the
+agreement in connection with another Google open source project, it
+does not need to be completed again.