diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32
index 1683d54b9..62236d016 100644
--- a/README.win32
+++ b/README.win32
@@ -145,8 +145,7 @@ prebuilt binaries are included in the "dev" packages.
 
 Please note that the ./configure mechanism should not blindly be used
 to build a GLib to be distributed to other developers because it
-produces a compiler-dependent glibconfig.h. For instance, the typedef
-for gint64 is long long with gcc, but __int64 with MSVC.
+produces a compiler-dependent glibconfig.h.
 
 Except for this and a few other minor issues, there shouldn't be any
 reason to distribute separate GLib headers and DLLs for gcc and MSVC6
diff --git a/glib/gscanner.c b/glib/gscanner.c
index 389376c59..9acf3dfa2 100644
--- a/glib/gscanner.c
+++ b/glib/gscanner.c
@@ -1697,12 +1697,7 @@ g_scanner_get_token_i (GScanner	*scanner,
       *token_p = G_TOKEN_FLOAT;
       if (scanner->config->store_int64)
         {
-#ifdef _MSC_VER
-          /* work around error C2520, see gvaluetransform.c */
-          value_p->v_float = (__int64)value_p->v_int64;
-#else
           value_p->v_float = value_p->v_int64;
-#endif
         }
       else
 	value_p->v_float = value_p->v_int;