History

• First ChangeLog entry:

  1996-10-24  Per Bothner  <bothner@deneb.cygnus.com>
  
  	New directory.
  

• Early versions based on Kaffe

  $ cd gcc/gcc/java
  $ fgrep soft_ *.c | wc -l
       66
  

• First public release - August 1999
• Merged library with Classpath - March 2000