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