The code of the fast inverse square root implementation from Quake III Arena. https://github.com/id-Software/Quake-III-Arena/blob/dbe4ddb10315479fc00086f08e25d968b4b43c49/code/game/q_math.c#L546-L581

Q_rsqrt.c

#if !idppc
/*
** float q_rsqrt( float number )
*/
float Q_rsqrt( float number )
{
	long i;
	float x2, y;
	const float threehalfs = 1.5F;

	x2 = number * 0.5F;
	y  = number;
	i  = * ( long * ) &y;						// evil floating point bit level hacking
	i  = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 );               // what the fuck?
	y  = * ( float * ) &i;
	y  = y * ( threehalfs - ( x2 * y * y ) );   // 1st iteration
//	y  = y * ( threehalfs - ( x2 * y * y ) );   // 2nd iteration, this can be removed

#ifndef Q3_VM
#ifdef __linux__
	assert( !isnan(y) ); // bk010122 - FPE?
#endif
#endif
	return y;
}

float Q_fabs( float f ) {
	int tmp = * ( int * ) &f;
	tmp &= 0x7FFFFFFF;
	return * ( float * ) &tmp;
}
#endif