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Subject: Re: [boost] Adding detection of [u]intptr_t to Boost.Config (moving it from cstdint.hpp)
From: Glen Fernandes (glen.fernandes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-05-30 13:13:57


On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 10:06 AM, John Maddock wrote:
> What's the rationale?
>

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Andrey Semashev wrote:
> Is there a reason for it?
>

Andrey, John: My motivation was that it fits in the category of
compiler/standard library feature detection useful for Boost library
authors who only want that particular feature of Boost.Integer and
prefer not to pull in boost::<integer types> just for that detection.

Glen


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