SLATEC Routines --- XCON ---

*DECK XCON
      SUBROUTINE XCON (X, IX, IERROR)
C***BEGIN PROLOGUE  XCON
C***PURPOSE  To provide single-precision floating-point arithmetic
C            with an extended exponent range.
C***LIBRARY   SLATEC
C***CATEGORY  A3D
C***TYPE      SINGLE PRECISION (XCON-S, DXCON-D)
C***KEYWORDS  EXTENDED-RANGE SINGLE-PRECISION ARITHMETIC
C***AUTHOR  Lozier, Daniel W., (National Bureau of Standards)
C           Smith, John M., (NBS and George Mason University)
C***DESCRIPTION
C     REAL X
C     INTEGER IX
C
C                  CONVERTS (X,IX) = X*RADIX**IX
C                  TO DECIMAL FORM IN PREPARATION FOR
C                  PRINTING, SO THAT (X,IX) = X*10**IX
C                  WHERE 1/10 .LE. ABS(X) .LT. 1
C                  IS RETURNED, EXCEPT THAT IF
C                  (ABS(X),IX) IS BETWEEN RADIX**(-2L)
C                  AND RADIX**(2L) THEN THE REDUCED
C                  FORM WITH IX = 0 IS RETURNED.
C
C***SEE ALSO  XSET
C***REFERENCES  (NONE)
C***ROUTINES CALLED  XADJ, XC210, XRED
C***COMMON BLOCKS    XBLK2
C***REVISION HISTORY  (YYMMDD)
C   820712  DATE WRITTEN
C   881020  Revised to meet SLATEC CML recommendations.  (DWL and JMS)
C   901019  Revisions to prologue.  (DWL and WRB)
C   901106  Changed all specific intrinsics to generic.  (WRB)
C           Corrected order of sections in prologue and added TYPE
C           section.  (WRB)
C   920127  Revised PURPOSE section of prologue.  (DWL)
C***END PROLOGUE  XCON