Add floating-point read/write to Reader/Writer #5235
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When parsing bytes from a wire, there is a need to parse floating-point bytes to float values ([u8_4] to f32, [u8_8] to f64). This can be done via cast::transmute, but there is no way to do it safely.
It's quite common, so I think I't better to support it in core library.