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11/3/71FTOA (III)

NAME ftoa -- floating to ascii conversion
SYNOPSIS jsr r5,ftoa; subr
DESCRIPTION ftoa will convert the floatin9 point number in fr0 into asciiin the form [-]d.dddddddde[-]dd*. The floating point simulator


should be active in either floating or double mode, but insingle integer mode. For each character generated by ftoa, the subroutine subr is called on register r5 with the character inr0.


FILES kept in /etc/liba.a
SEE_ALSO fptrap
DIAGNOSTICS
BUGS The subroutine subr should not disturb any registers.
OWNER ken