$NetBSD: timesoftfloat.txt,v 1.1 2000/06/06 08:15:11 bjh21 Exp $ Documentation for the `timesoftfloat' Program of SoftFloat Release 2a John R. Hauser 1998 December 14 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction The `timesoftfloat' program evaluates the speed of SoftFloat's floating- point routines. Each routine can be evaluated for every relevant rounding mode, tininess mode, and/or rounding precision. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents Introduction Contents Legal Notice Executing `timesoftfloat' Options -help -precision32, -precision64, -precision80 -nearesteven, -tozero, -down, -up -tininessbefore, -tininessafter Function Sets ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Legal Notice The `timesoftfloat' program was written by John R. Hauser. 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 ANY AND ALL LOSSES, COSTS, OR OTHER PROBLEMS ARISING FROM ITS USE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executing `timesoftfloat' The `timesoftfloat' program is intended to be invoked from a command line interpreter as follows: timesoftfloat [