1 $NetBSD: README.txt,v 1.1 2000/06/06 08:15:02 bjh21 Exp $ 2 3 Package Overview for SoftFloat Release 2a 4 5 John R. Hauser 6 1998 December 13 7 8 9 SoftFloat is a software implementation of floating-point that conforms to 10 the IEC/IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic. SoftFloat is 11 distributed in the form of C source code. Compiling the SoftFloat sources 12 generates two things: 13 14 -- A SoftFloat object file (typically `softfloat.o') containing the complete 15 set of IEC/IEEE floating-point routines. 16 17 -- A `timesoftfloat' program for evaluating the speed of the SoftFloat 18 routines. (The SoftFloat module is linked into this program.) 19 20 The SoftFloat package is documented in four text files: 21 22 softfloat.txt Documentation for using the SoftFloat functions. 23 softfloat-source.txt Documentation for compiling SoftFloat. 24 softfloat-history.txt History of major changes to SoftFloat. 25 timesoftfloat.txt Documentation for using `timesoftfloat'. 26 27 Other files in the package comprise the source code for SoftFloat. 28 29 Please be aware that some work is involved in porting this software to other 30 targets. It is not just a matter of getting `make' to complete without 31 error messages. I would have written the code that way if I could, but 32 there are fundamental differences between systems that I can't make go away. 33 You should not attempt to compile SoftFloat without first reading both 34 `softfloat.txt' and `softfloat-source.txt'. 35 36 At the time of this writing, the most up-to-date information about 37 SoftFloat and the latest release can be found at the Web page `http:// 38 HTTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU/~jhauser/arithmetic/SoftFloat.html'. 39 40
