Save bytes in float variable

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@J-M-L

It is UB regardless of optimization. The standard says so

Memcpy() is the recommended way

Now you can code the way you want (and it will likely work), but it won’t make it OK by the norm

I think that's the key point @ DrDiettrich. You can implement whatever kludgy, hacky code you like for your own projects. But, don't recommend to others techniques that violate the language standard.