11/3/71                                                FTOA (III)





NAME            ftoa -- floating to ascii conversion



SYNOPSIS        jsr     r5,ftoa; subr



DESCRIPTION     ftoa will convert the floating point number in

                fr0 into ascii in the form [-]d.dddddddde[-]dd*.

                The floating point simulator shouldbe active in

                either floating or double mode, but in single in-

                teger mode.  For each character generated by

                ftoa, the subroutine subr is called on register

                r5 with the character in r0.



FILES           kept in /etc/liba.a



SEE ALSO        fptrap



DIAGNOSTICS     --



BUGS            The subroutine subr should not disturb any regis-

                ters.



OWNER           ken