--- a/src/defs.s	Mon Oct 23 20:23:28 2023 -0600
+++ b/src/defs.s	Mon Oct 23 22:46:55 2023 -0600
@@ -13,24 +13,22 @@
 linebuffsize    equ 0x100                       ; the line input buffer (256 bytes)
 stringstacknum  equ 20                          ; number of entries on the anonymous string descriptor stack
 ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
-; Data structure used for calculations. Calculations are handled via structurs called value accumulators. A value
+; Data structure used for calculations. Calculations are handled via structures called value accumulators. A value
 ; accumulator consists of a data type flag (at the end of the structure) and a data area whose layout varies based
 ; on the actual data type. The layouts for each value type are described below.
 ;
 ; A value type that is NULL (not set to anything) has type 0 (valtype_none) and the rest should be zero.
 ;
-; A value accumulator has the following structure for floating point:
+; A value accumulator has the following structure for floating point, which holds a packed floating point value:
 ; Offset        Length          Contents
-; 0             1               fp exponent
-; 1             4               fp mantissa
-; 5             1               fp sign
+; 0             1               fp exponent and sign
+; 1             5               fp mantissa
 ; 6             1               value type
 ;
 ; A value accumulator has the following structure for integers:
 ; Offset        Length          Contents
-; 0             1               *unsued*
-; 1             4               integer value (two's complement)
-; 5             1               *unused*
+; 0             4               integer value (two's complement)
+; 4             2               *unused*
 ; 6             1               value type
 ;
 ; A value accumulator has the following structure for a string:
@@ -62,13 +60,12 @@
 ; Value accumulator structure definitions; note that the actual value data must be first and any
 ; incidental meta data must follow
 val.value       equ 0                           ; offset of the value stored in the accumulator
-val.fpsexp      equ val.value                   ; floating point exponent
+val.fpsexp      equ val.value                   ; floating point exponent (and sign)
 val.fpssig      equ val.fpsexp+1                ; floating point significand
-val.fpssign     equ val.fpssig+5                ; floating point sign
 val.int         equ val.value                   ; integer offset
 val.strlen      equ val.value+str.len           ; string length offset
 val.strptr      equ val.value+str.ptr           ; string data pointer (low word)
-val.type        equ val.value+val.fpssign+1     ; use the largest of the data types here
+val.type        equ 6                           ; use the largest of the data type sizes here
 val.size        equ val.type+1                  ; size of a value accumulator
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                 ifdef COCO3