# Package Overview for Berkeley SoftFloat Release 3a

John R. Hauser
2015 October 23

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.