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4Package Overview for SoftFloat Release 2a
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6John R. Hauser
71998 December 13
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10SoftFloat is a software implementation of floating-point that conforms to
11the IEC/IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic.  SoftFloat is
12distributed in the form of C source code.  Compiling the SoftFloat sources
13generates two things:
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15-- A SoftFloat object file (typically `softfloat.o') containing the complete
16   set of IEC/IEEE floating-point routines.
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18-- A `timesoftfloat' program for evaluating the speed of the SoftFloat
19   routines.  (The SoftFloat module is linked into this program.)
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21The SoftFloat package is documented in four text files:
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23   softfloat.txt          Documentation for using the SoftFloat functions.
24   softfloat-source.txt   Documentation for compiling SoftFloat.
25   softfloat-history.txt  History of major changes to SoftFloat.
26   timesoftfloat.txt      Documentation for using `timesoftfloat'.
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28Other files in the package comprise the source code for SoftFloat.
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30Please be aware that some work is involved in porting this software to other
31targets.  It is not just a matter of getting `make' to complete without
32error messages.  I would have written the code that way if I could, but
33there are fundamental differences between systems that I can't make go away.
34You should not attempt to compile SoftFloat without first reading both
35`softfloat.txt' and `softfloat-source.txt'.
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37At the time of this writing, the most up-to-date information about
38SoftFloat and the latest release can be found at the Web page `http://
39HTTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU/~jhauser/arithmetic/SoftFloat.html'.
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