Here's how I do it with CCS, looks like a pretty close match.

void WRITE_FLOAT_EXT_EEPROM(long int n, float data) {
   int i;
   for (i = 0; i < 4; i++)
     write_ext_eeprom(i + n, *(&data + i) ) ;
}

Dale
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