written by 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 more information is available through the web page
http://www jhauser us/arithmetic/softfloat-2b/softfloat-source txt
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has been made to avoid it this software may contain faults that will
at times result in incorrect behavior use of this software is
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responsibility for any and all losses costs or other problems arising
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