Re:Confession Of A C/C++ Programmer (2017)
by flohofwoe on Monday January 25, 2021 @05:35PM
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The common C/C++ subset is an outdated and non-standard C though. For instance standard-conforming C++ compilers cannot compile C99 code and onward, they're stuck at a non-standard C version that would roughly be C95, minus some things that are valid C but not valid C++.
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Re:Confession Of A C/C++ Programmer (2017)
by pjmlp on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @02:46AM
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They can compile more C11 code than C99, thanks to the stuff dropped in C11.
They also support most of the C standard library additions.
As of C++20, the biggest difference is that designated initializers must follow field declaration order, restrict and _Generic aren't supported, and the type safety semantics are stronger.
Re:Confession Of A C/C++ Programmer (2017)
by flohofwoe on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @04:30AM
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There's also a handful of small differences like this, e.g. in C it's possible to construct a value and take the address for a pointer argument right in the function call:
func(&(bla_t){ .x=1, .y=2 });