Author: John R. Hauser, 2015 October 23. Modified by: Stephen R. Orso, 2016-12-20.

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 softfloat.a or libsoftfloat.a) containing the floating-point subroutines.

The SoftFloat package is documented in the following files in the doc subdirectory:

• The SoftFloat functions: http:doc/SoftFloat.html.
• Building SoftFloat: Http:doc/SoftFloat-source.html
• History of the major changes: http:doc/SoftFloat-history.html

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