Re: [boost] Enabling spectre mitigation in boost libraries

Subject: Re: [boost] Enabling spectre mitigation in boost libraries
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-04-06 18:14:38

On Sat, Apr 6, 2019, 1:11 PM Robert Ramey via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> On 4/6/19 9:46 AM, John Maddock via Boost wrote:
> >
>
> > One thing we could look at for future releases would be to provide
> > differently-named binaries for /Qspectre.  Anyone else have thoughts on
> > that?
>
> Hmmm - I question I'm too lazy to investigate so I'll just ask you.
> Does boost build not provide the option of specifying that the
> invocation specify the name of the binaries or perhaps some root?  Would
> this not get boost off the hook for addressing special requirements like
> this?
>

Yes, both of those features are available.