1 1 9.40.5 Floating Point 1 --------------------- 1 1 The assembler recognizes both the IEEE floating-point instruction and 1 the hexadecimal floating-point instructions. The floating-point 1 constructors '.float', '.single', and '.double' always emit the IEEE 1 format. To assemble hexadecimal floating-point constants the '.long' 1 and '.quad' directives must be used. 1