John, Just cast them. The compiler will take care of the conversion. Look at the example file "ex_float.c" in your "examples" directory. regards, larry >Anybody out there used the ccs floating point stuff. I am trying to figure >out how to convert long integers (signed or unsigned) to floating point and >back from floating point. There are a couple functions unsltof and ftounsl >that I am guessing convert unsigned integers to and from floating point but >when I watch them in the mplab simulator they run endlessly. If anybody has >any sample code (besides the ASCII to floating point example CCS provides) >let me know. >Thanks in advance... >