[flac-dev] Moving CPP hackery

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

JonY wrote:

> On 2/4/2012 17:45, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> > JonY wrote:
> > 
> >> Looks like there are some missed defines in the test_libFLAC++. Attached
> >> patch fixes that.
> > 
> > Good one. Thanks.
> > 
> >> Also, wsock32 usage is deprecated, on Win7, wsock32 forwards everything
> >> to ws2_32, suggest changing to -lwsock32 to -lws2_32 in configure.ac.
> >> Additionally, using -lwsock32 on Cygwin is wrong. Fix in config.txt.
> > 
> > For that I think I'd prefer to purge all use of ntohl. Will make that
> > a high priority.

Just so you know, I have a patch to remove ntohl() in my queue.

> Does AC_C_BIGENDIAN work well?

Its ok, but I'll probably replace it with an m4 macro from libsndfile
which is quite a bit better.

> I assume if a system is not big endian, its small endian.

Usually called little endian.

> Are mid endian systems still around?

I've not heard of one any time in the last 10 years.

Erik
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