1$NetBSD: README.txt,v 1.1 2000/06/06 08:15:02 bjh21 Exp $ 2 3Package Overview for SoftFloat Release 2a 4 5John R. Hauser 61998 December 13 7 8 9SoftFloat is a software implementation of floating-point that conforms to 10the IEC/IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic. SoftFloat is 11distributed in the form of C source code. Compiling the SoftFloat sources 12generates 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 20The 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 27Other files in the package comprise the source code for SoftFloat. 28 29Please be aware that some work is involved in porting this software to other 30targets. It is not just a matter of getting `make' to complete without 31error messages. I would have written the code that way if I could, but 32there are fundamental differences between systems that I can't make go away. 33You should not attempt to compile SoftFloat without first reading both 34`softfloat.txt' and `softfloat-source.txt'. 35 36At the time of this writing, the most up-to-date information about 37SoftFloat and the latest release can be found at the Web page `http:// 38HTTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU/~jhauser/arithmetic/SoftFloat.html'. 39 40