Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] bswap.h: Rework ntohl handling

> this series continues the rework of the bswap32/64()/ nothl() handling. 
>
> I've been looking at recent compiler and they manage to recognize the
> manual shifting and use an optimize opcode if available. The ntohl
> version provided by glibc already provides an "optimized" version which
> makes an optimisation in git almost not needed.
> One of the motivation behind overwriting/ providing an optimized
> version was to provide a macro instead of using a function call. One
> libc that is still providing ntohl as a function call is musl.
>
> While ntohl() is provided by the libc, the ntohll() is not. I found it
> only on Windows provided by winsock.h.
>
> I haven't touched the put/get_be*() macros. gcc & clang are both smart
> enough to swap the content accordingly and perform a single store/ load.
> Only the msvc seems to strugle here and performs multiple bytes stores/
> loads and shifts.
>
> v2…v3 https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250611221444.1567638-1-sebastian@breakpoint.cc/
>   - Fixed typos in the patch description