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From: Bo Persson <bo@bo-persson.se>
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Subject: Re: To C or not to C++
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 22:22:13 +0200
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On 2022-08-15 at 21:01, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2022 06:16:23 -0000 (UTC)
> Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> wrote:
>> Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote:
>>> Rubbish. I've got multi thousand line originally C programs which I've
>> happily
>>> compiled with C++ compilers in C++ mode due to a few minor C++ additions.
>>
>> I assume it's C89. Modern C is more unlikely to be compilable as C++ as-is
>> (for example because of out-of-order designated initializers, 'restrict',
>> and so on). Even some completely standard-legal C89 won't compile as C++,
>> such as:
>>
>>   char *str = "hello";
>>
>> (which is 100% valid standard C, but not valid C++.)
> 
> Both clang and gcc will compile it but with a warning.
> 

And the warning says that it *is* valid?!