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