.th FTOA III 1/15/73 .sh NAME ftoa \*- floating to ascii conversion .sh SYNOPSIS .ft B jsr r5,ftoa; subr .ft R .sh DESCRIPTION .it Ftoa will convert the floating point number in fr0 into ascii in the form .s3 [\fB\*-\fR]ddddd\fB.\fRdd... .s3 if possible, otherwise in the form .s3 [\fB\*-\fR]d\fB.\fRdddddddd\fBe\fR[\fB\*-\fR]dd .s3 For each character generated by ftoa, the \fIsubr\fR (supplied by the caller) is called on register r5 with the character in r0. .s3 The number of digits can be changed by changing the value of \fB\*_ndigits\fR in ecvt (default is 10.). .s3 The \fIsubr\fR must not disturb any registers. .sh "SEE ALSO" ecvt(III), itoa(III), printf(III)