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2Package Overview for Berkeley SoftFloat Release 3a
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4John R. Hauser
52015 October 23
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7Berkeley SoftFloat is a software implementation of binary floating-point
8that conforms to the IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic.  SoftFloat
9is distributed in the form of C source code.  Building the SoftFloat sources
10generates a library file (typically "softfloat.a" or "libsoftfloat.a")
11containing the floating-point subroutines.
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13The SoftFloat package is documented in the following files in the "doc"
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16    SoftFloat.html          Documentation for using the SoftFloat functions.
17    SoftFloat-source.html   Documentation for building SoftFloat.
18    SoftFloat-history.html  History of the major changes to SoftFloat.
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20Other files in the package comprise the source code for SoftFloat.
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