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@@ -856,12 +856,18 @@ multi-precision integer functions used in those functions are taken from
 GNU MP, which was contributed by @value{tege}.
 
 @item
-The internationalization support in the library, and the support programs
-@code{locale} and @code{localedef}, were written by Ulrich Drepper.
-Ulrich Drepper adapted the support code for message catalogs
+The internationalization support in the library, and the support
+programs @code{locale} and @code{localedef}, were written by Ulrich
+Drepper.  Ulrich Drepper adapted the support code for message catalogs
 (@file{libintl.h}, etc.) from the GNU @code{gettext} package, which he
-also wrote.  He also contributed the entire suite of multi-byte and
-wide-character support functions (@file{wctype.h}, @file{wchar.h}, etc.).
+also wrote.  He also contributed the @code{catgets} support and the
+entire suite of multi-byte and wide-character support functions
+(@file{wctype.h}, @file{wchar.h}, etc.).
+
+@item
+The implementations of the @file{nsswitch.conf} mechanism and the files
+and DNS backends for it were designed and written by Ulrich Drepper and
+Roland McGrath, based on a backend interface defined by Peter Eriksson.
 
 @item
 The port to Linux i386/ELF (@code{i386-@var{anything}-linux}) was
@@ -873,6 +879,14 @@ The port to Linux/m68k (@code{m68k-@var{anything}-linux}) was
 contributed by Andreas Schwab.
 
 @item
+Richard Henderson contributed the ELF dynamic linking code and other
+support for the Alpha processor.
+
+@item
+David Mosberger-Tang contributed the port to Linux/Alpha
+(@code{alpha-@var{anything}-linux}).
+
+@item
 Stephen R. van den Berg contributed a highly-optimized @code{strstr} function.
 
 @item
@@ -883,7 +897,12 @@ several highly-optimized string functions for i@var{x}86 processors.
 
 @item
 The math functions are taken from @code{fdlibm-5.1} by Sun
-Microsystems, as modified by J.T. Conklin and Ian Lance Taylor.
+Microsystems, as modified by J.T. Conklin, Ian Lance Taylor,
+Ulrich Drepper, Andreas Schwab, and Roland McGrath.
+
+@item
+The @code{libio} library used to implement @code{stdio} functions on
+some platforms was written by Per Bothner and modified by Ulrich Drepper.
 
 @item
 The Internet-related code (most of the @file{inet} subdirectory) and
@@ -946,7 +965,7 @@ changes to fit into the GNU C library and to fit the ANSI C standard,
 but the functional code is Berkeley's.@refill
 
 @item
-The Internet resolver code is taken directly from BIND 4.9.3, which is
+The Internet resolver code is taken directly from BIND 4.9.4, which is
 under both the Berkeley copyright above and also:
 
 @quotation