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<H1>Package Overview for Berkeley SoftFloat Release 3a</H1>

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John R. Hauser<BR>
2015 October 23<BR>
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Berkeley SoftFloat is a software implementation of binary floating-point that
conforms to the IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic.
SoftFloat is distributed in the form of C source code.
Building the SoftFloat sources generates a library file (typically
<CODE>softfloat.a</CODE> or <CODE>libsoftfloat.a</CODE>) containing the
floating-point subroutines.
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The SoftFloat package is documented in the following files in the
<CODE>doc</CODE> subdirectory:
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<TD><A HREF="doc/SoftFloat.html"><CODE>SoftFloat.html</CODE></A></TD>
<TD>Documentation for using the SoftFloat functions.</TD>
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<TD><A HREF="doc/SoftFloat-source.html"><CODE>SoftFloat-source.html</CODE></A></TD>
<TD>Documentation for building SoftFloat.</TD>
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<TD><A HREF="doc/SoftFloat-history.html"><CODE>SoftFloat-history.html</CODE></A><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</CODE></TD>
<TD>History of the major changes to SoftFloat.</TD>
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Other files in the package comprise the source code for SoftFloat.
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