1*9403c583SJens Wiklander 2*9403c583SJens Wiklander<HTML> 3*9403c583SJens Wiklander 4*9403c583SJens Wiklander<HEAD> 5*9403c583SJens Wiklander<TITLE>Berkeley SoftFloat Package Overview</TITLE> 6*9403c583SJens Wiklander</HEAD> 7*9403c583SJens Wiklander 8*9403c583SJens Wiklander<BODY> 9*9403c583SJens Wiklander 10*9403c583SJens Wiklander<H1>Package Overview for Berkeley SoftFloat Release 3a</H1> 11*9403c583SJens Wiklander 12*9403c583SJens Wiklander<P> 13*9403c583SJens WiklanderJohn R. Hauser<BR> 14*9403c583SJens Wiklander2015 October 23<BR> 15*9403c583SJens Wiklander</P> 16*9403c583SJens Wiklander 17*9403c583SJens Wiklander<P> 18*9403c583SJens WiklanderBerkeley SoftFloat is a software implementation of binary floating-point that 19*9403c583SJens Wiklanderconforms to the IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic. 20*9403c583SJens WiklanderSoftFloat is distributed in the form of C source code. 21*9403c583SJens WiklanderBuilding the SoftFloat sources generates a library file (typically 22*9403c583SJens Wiklander<CODE>softfloat.a</CODE> or <CODE>libsoftfloat.a</CODE>) containing the 23*9403c583SJens Wiklanderfloating-point subroutines. 24*9403c583SJens Wiklander</P> 25*9403c583SJens Wiklander 26*9403c583SJens Wiklander<P> 27*9403c583SJens WiklanderThe SoftFloat package is documented in the following files in the 28*9403c583SJens Wiklander<CODE>doc</CODE> subdirectory: 29*9403c583SJens Wiklander<BLOCKQUOTE> 30*9403c583SJens Wiklander<TABLE> 31*9403c583SJens Wiklander<TR> 32*9403c583SJens Wiklander<TD><A HREF="doc/SoftFloat.html"><CODE>SoftFloat.html</CODE></A></TD> 33*9403c583SJens Wiklander<TD>Documentation for using the SoftFloat functions.</TD> 34*9403c583SJens Wiklander</TR> 35*9403c583SJens Wiklander<TR> 36*9403c583SJens Wiklander<TD><A HREF="doc/SoftFloat-source.html"><CODE>SoftFloat-source.html</CODE></A></TD> 37*9403c583SJens Wiklander<TD>Documentation for building SoftFloat.</TD> 38*9403c583SJens Wiklander</TR> 39*9403c583SJens Wiklander<TR> 40*9403c583SJens Wiklander<TD><A HREF="doc/SoftFloat-history.html"><CODE>SoftFloat-history.html</CODE></A><CODE> </CODE></TD> 41*9403c583SJens Wiklander<TD>History of the major changes to SoftFloat.</TD> 42*9403c583SJens Wiklander</TR> 43*9403c583SJens Wiklander</TABLE> 44*9403c583SJens Wiklander</BLOCKQUOTE> 45*9403c583SJens WiklanderOther files in the package comprise the source code for SoftFloat. 46*9403c583SJens Wiklander</P> 47*9403c583SJens Wiklander 48*9403c583SJens Wiklander</BODY> 49*9403c583SJens Wiklander 50