Re: [boost] Build breaking changes

Subject: Re: [boost] Build breaking changes
From: Gavin Lambert (gavinl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-03-28 23:52:05

On 29/03/2018 10:47, Andrey Semashev wrote:
> Maybe we should just change the default to address-model=64. Really, 
> 32-bit x86 is long long outdated.

While 64-bit OSes are the norm (and on Linux this also applies to 
applications that are built from source, which is most of them), on 
Windows and outside of spaces that require large amounts of memory (such 
as games and graphics) it is still more common to have 32-bit apps than 
64-bit ones.