Package Overview for Berkeley SoftFloat Release 3e John R. Hauser 2018 January 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: 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.