POKE_FLOAT

Syntax

POKE_FLOAT address, value

Location

DJToolkit 1.16

This procedure will poke the 6 bytes that the QL uses to represent a floating point variable into memory at the given address. The address can be odd or even as the procedure can cope either way.

EXAMPLE

1000 Address = RESERVE_HEAP(6)
1010 IF Address < 0 THEN
1020    PRINT "ERROR " & Address & " Allocating heap space."
1030    STOP
1040 END IF
1050 POKE_FLOAT Address, 666.616

CROSS-REFERENCE

POKE_STRING, PEEK_STRING, PEEK_FLOAT.