How to convert or cast a float into its bit sequence such as a long

Question

Good day, I am working in a 16-bit C environment, and I want to convert a float value into its bit sequence such as an integer value. There are multiple ways I know how to a

Answer 1

You should know somethings about IEEE floating point standards. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_floating-point_standard

get the fractions bits and get the exponent bits and process them into a long