Re: htonl: New module.

[Collin Funk]

Hi Bruno,

Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> writes:

>    For a function, the float-argument test and the evaluates-arg-only-once
>    test naturally succeed.
>
>    I believe the situation is good here because these 4 functions have been
>    heavily used over the last 30 years, and problems like evaluates-arg-
>    several-times would have been noticed and fixed many years ago already.

Right, I added it because I was unsure and figured it was safer. But
based on your findings it seems excesive.

> In order to fix the native Windows problem, the module description should
> have a 'Link:' section that references a variable (named $(HTONL_LIB) by
> convention) that expands to -lws2_32 on native Windows systems.

Ah, right. I forgot that you have to link to ws2_32 even for these
functions on Windows. I'll work on fixing that today. Thanks!

Collin