All,
Does anybody  have a good explanation of the way a floating point number is
stored in CCS-C?

The manual says a floating point is stored as 4, 8bit bytes in the same
format as the PIC14000 calibration data, but having tried to work this out,
I am still at a loss.  I can see the following values are produced with the
numbers 1 to 10.

1  7F000000
2  80000000
3  80400000
4  81000000
5  81200000
6  81400000
7  81600000
8  82000000
9  82100000
10 82200000

The first byte is the exponent with a 7F offset and the next three bytes
(apart from the MSB) is a 23 bit mantissa.  I can see that 1 would equal
7F000000 because anything ^0 is 1, but after that  I just don't get it. For
instance, in the case of the number 2 (80000000) the mantissa (0) would be
raised to the power of 1 (80 - 7F) which is... 0


Brian.

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