Annotation of researchv10dc/dist/man/v3/man3/ftoa.3, revision 1.1

1.1     ! root        1: .pa 1
        !             2: .he 'FTOA (III)'1/15/73'FTOA (III)'
        !             3: .ti 0
        !             4: NAME           ftoa -- floating to ascii conversion
        !             5: .sp
        !             6: .ti 0
        !             7: SYNOPSIS       jsr     r5,ftoa; subr
        !             8: .sp
        !             9: .ti 0
        !            10: DESCRIPTION    ftoa____
        !            11: will convert the floating point number in fr0
        !            12: into ascii in the form
        !            13: 
        !            14:    [-]ddddd.dd*
        !            15: 
        !            16: if possible, otherwise in the form
        !            17: 
        !            18:    [-]d.dddddddde_[-]dd*.
        !            19: .sp
        !            20: For each character generated by ftoa,
        !            21: the subroutine subr____ (supplied by the caller) is called on
        !            22: register r5 with the character in r0.
        !            23: .sp
        !            24: The number of digits can be changed by changing the value
        !            25: of "_ndigits" in ecvt (default is 10.).
        !            26: .sp
        !            27: The subroutine subr____ must not disturb any registers.
        !            28: .sp
        !            29: .ti 0
        !            30: FILES          kept in /lib/liba.a
        !            31: .sp
        !            32: .ti 0
        !            33: SEE ALSO       ecvt(III), itoa(III)
        !            34: .sp
        !            35: .ti 0
        !            36: DIAGNOSTICS    --
        !            37: .sp
        !            38: .ti 0
        !            39: BUGS           --

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