[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] remove MSVC-specific

[pross at xvid.org]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 02:59:51PM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> I do not know who you think of, but if you haven't noticed gcc,
> binutils, Solaris userland, OS/2 all have received similar levels of
> flames (and in the case of OS/2 IIRC much harder to reimplement code was
> removed than this MSVC stuff). Also IIRC for OS/2 things moved much more
> smoothly after people stopped insisting on ugly hacks.

this line of argument would be justified if the patch that iniaited this
discussion was to remove an 'ugly hack'. but the two lines of code
in mem.h are not ugly, and if anything, replicate similiar 'ugly
hacks' used for memory alignment with icc and gcc.

-- pete