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Re:Herb Sutter confirms no more support for C beyond C90 in ... by eliben on Thursday May 03, 2012 @05:19PM (#3925872)
You do know that C and C++ are separate languages, right?
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Re:Herb Sutter confirms no more support for C beyond C90 in ... by cobrausn on Thursday May 03, 2012 @05:34PM (#3925932)
Of course I do. Doesn't the post make it clear as day? C++11 and C11 are different standards, as stated.

Any C++11 compiler that tells you it is also C11 standards compliant is not a C++11 compliant compiler. There are many things you can do with C11 that should cause an error under standards compliant C++11.

EDIT:

If they decide to make the /TP switch on the compiler turn it from C++11 compliant to C11 compliant, that basically makes it two compilers for two different languages, instead of restricting to a subset of C++11.

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