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-MAME note: this package is derived from the following original SoftFloat
-package and has been "re-packaged" to work with MAME's conventions and
-build system. The source files come from bits64/ and bits64/templates
-in the original distribution as MAME requires a compiler with a 64-bit
-integer type.
-
-
-Package Overview for SoftFloat Release 2b
-
-John R. Hauser
-2002 May 27
-
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-Overview
-
-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 can't be hidden.
-You should not attempt to compile SoftFloat without first reading both
-`SoftFloat.txt' and `SoftFloat-source.txt'.
-
-
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-Legal Notice
-
-SoftFloat was written by me, John R. Hauser. This work was made possible in
-part by the International Computer Science Institute, located at Suite 600,
-1947 Center Street, Berkeley, California 94704. Funding was partially
-provided by the National Science Foundation under grant MIP-9311980. The
-original version of this code was written as part of a project to build
-a fixed-point vector processor in collaboration with the University of
-California at Berkeley, overseen by Profs. Nelson Morgan and John Wawrzynek.
-
-THIS SOFTWARE IS DISTRIBUTED AS IS, FOR FREE. Although reasonable effort
-has been made to avoid it, THIS SOFTWARE MAY CONTAIN FAULTS THAT WILL AT
-TIMES RESULT IN INCORRECT BEHAVIOR. USE OF THIS SOFTWARE IS RESTRICTED TO
-PERSONS AND ORGANIZATIONS WHO CAN AND WILL TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ALL
-LOSSES, COSTS, OR OTHER PROBLEMS THEY INCUR DUE TO THE SOFTWARE, AND WHO
-FURTHERMORE EFFECTIVELY INDEMNIFY JOHN HAUSER AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER
-SCIENCE INSTITUTE (possibly via similar legal warning) AGAINST ALL LOSSES,
-COSTS, OR OTHER PROBLEMS INCURRED BY THEIR CUSTOMERS AND CLIENTS DUE TO THE
-SOFTWARE.
-
-Derivative works are acceptable, even for commercial purposes, provided
-that the minimal documentation requirements stated in the source code are
-satisfied.
-
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-Contact Information
-
-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://
-www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jhauser/arithmetic/SoftFloat.html'.
-
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