At 09:00 AM 12/16/98 -0700, John MacLerran wrote:
>We're now in the process of evaluating just how much of the port of
>Skipper actually works, and most of it seems to be there, except for a
>few of the modules (about 5) that we can do without. The problem is that
>one of the SPL procedures that we do need calls a function named dtod_
>(or dtod'), which, if I interpret the SPL code correctly, is not an SPL
>procedure -- it's defined nowhere else in the code. In the source code,
>it looks like its part of the intrinsic list at the start of the code
>(along with WHO, FCONTROL, TERMINATE, etc.). However, I cannot find any
>mention of a dtod' intrinsic anywhere in the 5.5 intrinsics manual.

Its a function contained in the Compiler Library.  Here's a clip of
it from the Compiler Library manual (MPE-V CD-ROM):

DTOD'

FUNCTION:

Raise a double integer number base to a double integer number power.



/jf
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