Yes. Use memcpy if you need to do this! This is especially important when you're on a platform that requires aligned pointers. For example, the following code will crash on ARM

    char bytes[5] = {0};
    float flt = *(float*)&(bytes[1]);

Using memcpy works on any platform with 4 byte floats:

    char bytes[5] = {0};
    float flt;
    memcpy(&flt, &(bytes[1]), 4);