memcpy integers onto floats

[freedsbi]

i need to copy N unsigned short number that live in an N-dimensional array onto an equal size array of floats (the original array - unsigned short - is returned by the cfitsio library). can i use memcpy to do that?
i naively attempted to write

float *pixels;
unsigned int *flux;
... malloc-ing and filling up flux[]
pixels = malloc(N*sizeof (float));
memcpy( pixels, (float *) flux, N*sizeof (float));

and it obviously segfaulted. can i do it at all?
thanks!

[pukur123]

The prototype of memcpy is .......

void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n);

The memcpy() function copies n bytes from memory area src to memory area dest.

The datatype of both src and dest should be same. So your need will not be fulfilled with memcpy() function.

Instead you manually access each element of the integer array and put it into the float array.