diff --git a/build-aux/check-spacing.pl b/build-aux/check-spacing.pl
index ca8b434916..a32e355be6 100755
--- a/build-aux/check-spacing.pl
+++ b/build-aux/check-spacing.pl
@@ -45,9 +45,6 @@ foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
         # Kill any quoted strings
         $data =~ s,"(?:[^\\\"]|\\.)*","XXX",g;
 
-        # Kill any C++ style comments
-        $data =~ s,//.*$,//,;
-
         next if $data =~ /^#/;
 
         # Kill contents of multi-line comments
diff --git a/src/libvirt.c b/src/libvirt.c
index 0a738aefb1..7c379495ad 100644
--- a/src/libvirt.c
+++ b/src/libvirt.c
@@ -230,8 +230,8 @@ virWinsockInit(void)
     WSADATA winsock_data;
 
     /* http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms742213.aspx */
-    winsock_version = MAKEWORD (2, 2);
-    err = WSAStartup (winsock_version, &winsock_data);
+    winsock_version = MAKEWORD(2, 2);
+    err = WSAStartup(winsock_version, &winsock_data);
     return err == 0 ? 0 : -1;
 }
 #endif