C does not allow accessing an object of type float via an lvalue of type int. You need to either use a union (still invalid, but supported by most compilers) or memcpy. In fact this code will not work with gcc 4.1, which has improved aliasing analysis.
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C does not allow accessing an object of type float via an lvalue of type int. You need to either use a union (still invalid, but supported by most compilers) or memcpy. In fact this code will not work with gcc 4.1, which has improved aliasing analysis.