diff --git a/include/boost/cstdint.hpp b/include/boost/cstdint.hpp
index 29164f9a..e5507a5f 100644
--- a/include/boost/cstdint.hpp
+++ b/include/boost/cstdint.hpp
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ namespace boost
     || (defined(_XOPEN_UNIX) && (_XOPEN_UNIX+0 > 0) && !defined(__UCLIBC__)) \
     || defined(__CYGWIN__) \
     || defined(macintosh) || defined(__APPLE__) || defined(__APPLE_CC__) \
-    || defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__NetBSD__) || defined(__OpenBSD__) || defined(__DragonFly__) || defined(sun)
+    || defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__NetBSD__) || defined(__OpenBSD__) || defined(__DragonFly__) || defined(sun) || defined(INTPTR_MAX)
 
 namespace boost {
     using ::intptr_t;