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1 | $NetBSD: README.txt,v 1.1 2000/06/06 08:15:02 bjh21 Exp $\r |
2 | \r | |
3 | Package Overview for SoftFloat Release 2a\r | |
4 | \r | |
5 | John R. Hauser\r | |
6 | 1998 December 13\r | |
7 | \r | |
8 | \r | |
9 | SoftFloat is a software implementation of floating-point that conforms to\r | |
10 | the IEC/IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic. SoftFloat is\r | |
11 | distributed in the form of C source code. Compiling the SoftFloat sources\r | |
12 | generates two things:\r | |
13 | \r | |
14 | -- A SoftFloat object file (typically `softfloat.o') containing the complete\r | |
15 | set of IEC/IEEE floating-point routines.\r | |
16 | \r | |
17 | -- A `timesoftfloat' program for evaluating the speed of the SoftFloat\r | |
18 | routines. (The SoftFloat module is linked into this program.)\r | |
19 | \r | |
20 | The SoftFloat package is documented in four text files:\r | |
21 | \r | |
22 | softfloat.txt Documentation for using the SoftFloat functions.\r | |
23 | softfloat-source.txt Documentation for compiling SoftFloat.\r | |
24 | softfloat-history.txt History of major changes to SoftFloat.\r | |
25 | timesoftfloat.txt Documentation for using `timesoftfloat'.\r | |
26 | \r | |
27 | Other files in the package comprise the source code for SoftFloat.\r | |
28 | \r | |
29 | Please be aware that some work is involved in porting this software to other\r | |
30 | targets. It is not just a matter of getting `make' to complete without\r | |
31 | error messages. I would have written the code that way if I could, but\r | |
32 | there are fundamental differences between systems that I can't make go away.\r | |
33 | You should not attempt to compile SoftFloat without first reading both\r | |
34 | `softfloat.txt' and `softfloat-source.txt'.\r | |
35 | \r | |
36 | At the time of this writing, the most up-to-date information about\r | |
37 | SoftFloat and the latest release can be found at the Web page `http://\r | |
38 | HTTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU/~jhauser/arithmetic/SoftFloat.html'.\r | |
39 | \r |