Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!feeder2.ecngs.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 09:58:56 -0500 From: Gareth Owen Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: GCC is re-implementing in C++ and C discarded References: <5ae847c6-461f-4243-86bb-5712b158b022@googlegroups.com> <736f5601-6e86-495d-9a4a-bd4da6c077bf@googlegroups.com> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 15:59:06 +0100 Message-ID: <87vcg7dnlx.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:HhuOkylpvEsYpLBGkJhvPi0MXAI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lines: 9 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-XELYP0hlIU0QqZ1mAMbZoizuz+L9pYd5KCWIj0824It2zGIQXRqOzkQ+FCVeQrKMd6GGur9jHQ43YFz!tR2Tys5Ti1oQ65/2TK6TNCleYgXn6Qf3ltTazqgJSWLUOG0uXAvoVFBR2GuLkLpkjwNSmg== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1567 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:24915 Johannes Bauer writes: > On 25.08.2012 12:07, Malcolm McLean wrote: > > This isn't mere pedanticism ("new" keyword, etc.), but the bare truth: > Some constructs which are necessary for embedded systems are just syntax > errors in C++, while they work perfectly in C. Could you give an example or three?