The issue with D...

rikki cattermole rikki at cattermole.co.nz
Sun Feb 3 09:23:59 UTC 2019


On 03/02/2019 10:12 PM, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
> Using -m32 by default on Windows, while -m64 is the default on Linux and 
> MacOSX, needlessly breaks that cross-platform promise, and thus creates 
> compilation problems that could easily have been avoided by using a 
> consistent behavior across platforms.

Keep in mind we are going to be dropping (if I remember correctly) 
32-bit support for OSX. So its not quite as simple as the above posts 
may suggest.

Every platform is different, both in hardware in use and in the OS in 
question. Defaults for targets may not make sense everywhere.


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