[Flac-dev] need help with MSVC

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Josh Coalson wrote:

> --- Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd-flac at mega-nerd.com> wrote:
> > Josh Coalson wrote:
> > > the closest thing I found was ntohl() which appears to be a 
> > > function call
> > 
> > Avoid that like the plague.
> 
> why so?  on linux/glibc it appears to map to just a nop or bswap
> builtin.

Omn some platforms it is an actual function call and on some platforms
it requires linking with network libs.

Erik
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