Arguments to ALLOC function

[HIC at MIT-MC (Howard I. Cannon)]

    Date: 25 APR 1978 0916-EST
    From: JONL at MIT-MC (Jon L White)
    Subject: Arguments to ALLOC function
    To: (BUG LISP) at MIT-MC

    ****WORKS FOR (ALLOC ...) & PROBABLY FOR INITIAL DIALOUGE, BUT THERE AIN'T
        NO FREE SPACE IN WHICH TO CONS THE FLONUMS CREATED BY READ****

    Let all the arguments to ALLOC be expressible as floating-point numbers.
    Thus one could say (ALLOC '(LIST (56.0E3 64.0E3 .2)))  rather than type
    some fixnums with lots of trailing (meaningless) zeros.  Since these
    quantites are rounded up to the neares multiple of a segment size,
    there would be no difficulyt in first fixing the flonum, and then carrying
    on.
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This works now for the alloc function, but unfourtunatly if you have a flonum
in the init file alloc comment, LISP dies because it tries to do a GC due to
flonum space...barf, how can I allocate some initial flonum space??