Bit level manipulation in Java / reinterpreted_cast<> in Java?

Question

Is there anyway to treat as a float an int's value (and back)? Like this:

int myInt = 1729;
float myFloat = intToFloatPreservingBitPattern(myInt);
int otherInt = floatToIntPreservingBitPattern(myFloat);

(in C++ I could use float myFloat = reinterpreted_cast<float>(myInt), I'm looking for something similar in Java)

Answer 1

You're looking for the Float.intBitsToFloat method.

The reverse is the Float.floatToIntBits method.