10 Fixed-Point Arithmetic Support - dsPIC33C/E/F and dsPIC30 Only

Note: This feature is currently unsupported on dsPIC33A devices.

The MPLAB® XC-DSC C Compiler supports fixed-point arithmetic according to the N1169 draft of ISO/IEC TR 18037. The ISO C99 technical report on Embedded C, can be accessed using the following link:

www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/projects#18037

This chapter describes the implementation-specific details of the types and operations supported by the compiler under this draft standard.