Added read/write for float (kind of hacky, assumes IEE)

include/io/read.h

@@ -35,6 +35,18 @@ namespace io {
 		return value;
 	}
 
+	template <>
+	float read(std::istream& is) {
+		union {
+			uint32_t a;
+			float b;
+		} u;
+
+		u.a = read_bytes<uint32_t>(is, sizeof(uint32_t));
+
+		return u.b;
+	}
+
 	template<>
 	size_t read(std::istream& is) {
 		size_t value = 0;

include/io/write.h

@@ -31,6 +31,17 @@ namespace io {
 		write_bytes(os, value, sizeof(T));
 	}
 
+	template <>
+	void write(std::ostream& os, float value) {
+		union {
+			uint32_t a;
+			float b;
+		} u;
+
+		u.b = value;
+		write_bytes(os, u.a, sizeof(uint32_t));
+	}
+
 	// Special implementation for size_t (also uint64_t, so maybe this is not that smart)
 	template <>
 	void write(std::ostream& os, size_t value) {