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10<H1>Package Overview for Berkeley SoftFloat Release 3a</H1>
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13John R. Hauser<BR>
142015 October 23<BR>
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18Berkeley SoftFloat is a software implementation of binary floating-point that
19conforms to the IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic.
20SoftFloat is distributed in the form of C source code.
21Building the SoftFloat sources generates a library file (typically
22<CODE>softfloat.a</CODE> or <CODE>libsoftfloat.a</CODE>) containing the
23floating-point subroutines.
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27The SoftFloat package is documented in the following files in the
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32<TD><A HREF="doc/SoftFloat.html"><CODE>SoftFloat.html</CODE></A></TD>
33<TD>Documentation for using the SoftFloat functions.</TD>
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36<TD><A HREF="doc/SoftFloat-source.html"><CODE>SoftFloat-source.html</CODE></A></TD>
37<TD>Documentation for building SoftFloat.</TD>
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40<TD><A HREF="doc/SoftFloat-history.html"><CODE>SoftFloat-history.html</CODE></A><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</CODE></TD>
41<TD>History of the major changes to SoftFloat.</TD>
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45Other files in the package comprise the source code for SoftFloat.
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