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John R. Hauser
2018 January 20

Berkeley SoftFloat is a software implementation of binary floating-pointthat conforms to the IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic. SoftFloatis distributed in the form of C source code. Building the SoftFloat sourcesgenerates a library file (typicallysoftfloat.a orlibsoftfloat.a)containing the floating-point subroutines.

The SoftFloat package is documented in the following files in thedocsubdirectory:

• SoftFloat.html Documentation for using the SoftFloat functions.
• SoftFloat-source.html Documentation for building SoftFloat.
• SoftFloat-history.html History of the major changes to SoftFloat.

Other files in the package comprise the source code for SoftFloat.