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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: What if pre-processor was moved to parser?
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supercat@casperkitty.com writes:
[...]
> The ability to compile a C program as C++ is only useful if the resulting
> program will run with known semantics.  There are some constructs which
> have defined behavior in C but have no convenient direct equivalent in C++.

For example?

[...]

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