It's such a good idea that they made a special cast that does just that in C++20: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/bit_cast https://en.cppreference.com

It's such a good idea that they made a special cast that does just that in C++20: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/bit_cast https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/bit_cast