float buffer casting to unsigned char* losing data on socket send

Is there a better way to send float data over a socket? Below is an implementation that sends the data.

static float theOUTPUT[THE_FLOAT_DATA_BUFFER_SIZE];
int size = 2048;
int tb = 0;
int numbytes = 0;
int c开发者_JAVA百科s = 256;
unsigned char* buf = (unsigned char*)theOUTPUT;
while(tb < size) {
    numbytes = send(sock, buf, cs, 0);
    printf("bytes sent: %i\n", numbytes);
    tb+=numbytes;
    buf+=numbytes;
    if(tb >= size) {
        break;
    }
}

In this code, there's no guarantee that size matches sizeof(theOUTPUT). If it less, then you will lose data.

Thanks for the answers. It was not a very good question. I discovered the issue and found that I was sending more data than I thought over the socket. This what was corrupting the data.

@user470379 C programming language standard is unrelated to floats but I think that is what you mean. If you build the server and the client then you have control over how you encode your data regardless of the programming language.