PEEK_FLOAT

Syntax

value = PEEK_FLOAT(address)

Location

DJToolkit 1.16

This function returns the floating point value represented by the 6 bytes stored at the given address. BEWARE, although this function cannot detect any errors, if the 6 bytes stored at ‘address’ are not a proper floating point value, the QL can crash. The crash is caused by QDOS and not by PEEK_FLOAT. This function should be used to retrieve values put there by POKE_FLOAT mentioned above.

EXAMPLE

1000 addr = RESERVE_HEAP(6)
1010 IF addr < 0 THEN
1020    PRINT "OUT OF MEMORY"
1030    STOP
1040 END IF
1050 POKE_FLOAT addr, PI
1060 myPI = PEEK_FLOAT(addr)
1070 IF myPI <> PI THEN
1080    PRINT "Something went horribly wrong!"
1090    PRINT "PI = " & PI & ", myPI = " & myPI
1100 END IF

CROSS-REFERENCE

POKE_STRING, PEEK_STRING, POKE_FLOAT.