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A68D Floating-Point Addition Entry Point

Submitted by Steve Fewell

Routine:aplus
Name: Floating-Point Addition
Starting Address: &A68D
Entry criteria: &4A and &4B (the argp) point to a 5-byte Floating-Point variable to add.
The FWA contains the other value to add.
Exit: The FWA = [argp] + FWA [Normalised and Rounded].

Description:

Calls &A4E0 to unpack the variable pointed to by argp (&4A, &4B) to the
FWB.
If the unpacked variable is zero (Mantissa byte 1 is 0) then exit as there is nothing to add.
Call the Floating Point Addition routine [FWA = FWA + FWB] to actually do the addition.
Continue to the 'Round FWA Mantissa to 4 bytes' routine at address &A695
so that we can exit with the resulted rounded and the Mantissa rounding byte clear.

If called from &A692 then just the FWA = FWA + FWB calculation is done and the
FWA Mantissa is rounded to 4 bytes before exiting.

Disassembly for the Floating-Point Addition Entry Point routine