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<P>
John R. Hauser<BR>
-2014 _____<BR>
+2014 Dec 17<BR>
</P>
-<P>
-*** CONTENT DONE.
-</P>
-
-<P>
-*** REPLACE QUOTATION MARKS.
-</P>
<P>
Releases of Berkeley TestFloat parallel those of Berkeley SoftFloat, on which
@@ -35,7 +28,8 @@ corresponding release of SoftFloat.
<UL>
<LI>
-Complete rewrite, funded by the University of California, Berkeley.
+Complete rewrite, funded by the University of California, Berkeley, and
+consequently having a different use license than earlier releases.
Visible changes included different names for testable functions and options.
<LI>
@@ -68,8 +62,8 @@ package).
<UL>
<LI>
-Improved wording for the legal restrictions on using TestFloat releases
-<NOBR>through 2c</NOBR>.
+Improved the wording for the legal restrictions on using TestFloat releases
+<NOBR>through 2c</NOBR> (not applicable to <NOBR>Release 3</NOBR> or later).
</UL>
@@ -121,7 +115,7 @@ random bits for the entire machine word width.)
<LI>
Created <CODE>testsoftfloat</CODE>, with its own simpler complete software
-floating-point (``slowfloat'') for comparison purposes.
+floating-point (&ldquo;slowfloat&rdquo;) for comparison purposes.
<LI>
Made some changes to the source file structure, including renaming
@@ -147,7 +141,8 @@ to control whether tininess should be detected before or after rounding.
<UL>
<LI>
-Original release.
+Original release, based on work done for the International Computer Science
+Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley, California.
</UL>