1 2Package Overview for Berkeley SoftFloat Release 3a 3 4John R. Hauser 52015 October 23 6 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. 12 13The SoftFloat package is documented in the following files in the "doc" 14subdirectory: 15 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. 19 20Other files in the package comprise the source code for SoftFloat. 21 22