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<H1>History of Berkeley SoftFloat, to Release 3</H1>
<P>
John R. Hauser<BR>
2014 _____<BR>
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<P>
*** CONTENT DONE.
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<H3>Release 3 (2014 December)</H3>
<UL>
<LI>
Complete rewrite, funded by the University of California, Berkeley.
Major changes included renaming most types and functions, upgrading some
algorithms, restructuring the source files, and making SoftFloat into a true
library.
<LI>
Added functions to convert between floating-point and unsigned integers, both
<NOBR>32-bit</NOBR> and <NOBR>64-bit</NOBR> (<CODE>uint32_t</CODE> and
<CODE>uint64_t</CODE>).
<LI>
Added functions for fused multiply-add, for all supported floating-point
formats except <NOBR>80-bit</NOBR> double-extended-precision.
<LI>
Added support for a fifth rounding mode, <CODE>near_maxMag</CODE> (round to
nearest, with ties to maximum magnitude, away from zero).
<LI>
Dropped the <CODE>timesoftfloat</CODE> program (now part of the Berkeley
TestFloat package).
</UL>
<H3>Release 2c (2014 December)</H3>
<UL>
<LI>
Further improved wording for the legal restrictions on using SoftFloat releases
<NOBR>through 2c</NOBR>.
</UL>
<H3>Release 2b (2002 May)</H3>
<UL>
<LI>
Made minor updates to the documentation, including improved wording for the
legal restrictions on using SoftFloat.
</UL>
<H3>Release 2a (1998 December)</H3>
<UL>
<LI>
Added functions to convert between <NOBR>64-bit</NOBR> integers
(<CODE>int64</CODE>) and all supported floating-point formats.
<LI>
Fixed a bug in all <NOBR>64-bit</NOBR>-version square root functions except
<CODE>float32_sqrt</CODE> that caused the result sometimes to be off by
<NOBR>1 unit</NOBR> in the last place (<NOBR>1 ulp</NOBR>) from what it should
be.
(Bug discovered by Paul Donahue.)
<LI>
Improved the Makefiles.
</UL>
<H3>Release 2 (1997 June)</H3>
<UL>
<LI>
Created the <NOBR>64-bit</NOBR> (<CODE>bits64</CODE>) version, adding the
<CODE>floatx80</CODE> and <CODE>float128</CODE> formats.
<LI>
Changed the source directory structure, splitting the sources into a
<CODE>bits32</CODE> and a <CODE>bits64</CODE> version.
Renamed <CODE>environment.h</CODE> to <CODE>milieu.h</CODE> to avoid confusion
with environment variables.
<LI>
Fixed a small error that caused <CODE>float64_round_to_int</CODE> often to
round the wrong way in nearest/even mode when the operand was between
2<SUP>20</SUP> and 2<SUP>21</SUP> and halfway between two integers.
</UL>
<H3>Release 1a (1996 July)</H3>
<UL>
<LI>
Corrected a mistake that caused borderline underflow cases not to raise the
underflow flag when they should have.
(Problem reported by Doug Priest.)
<LI>
Added the <CODE>float_detect_tininess</CODE> variable to control whether
tininess is detected before or after rounding.
</UL>
<H3>Release 1 (1996 July)</H3>
<UL>
<LI>
Original release.
</UL>
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