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