writing and reading float to eeprom

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hello
i am trying to write and read some float values to the 16f877a internal eeprom. and it does not seem to work. iread some junk values back if anyone could help that would be great.
thx

CCS PCM C Compiler, Version 3.212, 26318

#include <16F877A.h>
#fuses HS,NOWDT,NOPUT,NOPROTECT,NOBROWNOUT,NODEBUG,NOLVP,NOCPD,NOWRT
#use delay(clock=20000000)
#include<lcd.c>
#include <kbd.c>
#use fast_io(A)

float WRITE_FLOAT_EEPROM(long int ad, float data);
float READ_FLOAT_EEPROM(long int ad);
void main (void)
{
long int k,m;
float res[];
float val[10]={0.09,0.1,0.2,0.3,0.4,0.5,0.6,0.7,0.8,0.9};
lcd_init();

for(m=0;m<10;m++)
{
WRITE_FLOAT_EEPROM(m,val[m]);
res[m]=READ_FLOAT_EEPROM(m);
printf(LCD_PUTC, "\fval=%1.3f\n",res[m]);
delay_ms(500);
}



}


float WRITE_FLOAT_EEPROM(long int ad, float data) {
int i;

for (i = 0; i < 4; i++)
write_eeprom(i + ad, *((int8*)&data + i) ) ;
}

float READ_FLOAT_EEPROM(long int ad) {
int i;
float data;

for (i = 0; i < 4; i++)
*((int8*)&data+ i) = read_eeprom(i + ad);

return(data);
}

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