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Re:Herb Sutter confirms no more support for C beyond C90 in ... by bunderbunder on Thursday May 03, 2012 @05:44PM (#3925966)
The others, too. llvm, gcc, and icc all support both C and C++. But they also support Fortran using the same technique: A separate compiler front-end for each language.

For VC++ to add support for C as easily as many compiler collections do would require VC++ having a modular architecture like that of the other compiler collections. Considering VC++ only supports one language, that seems doubtful.

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Re:Herb Sutter confirms no more support for C beyond C90 in ... by someone-else on Thursday May 03, 2012 @06:04PM (#3926044)
It already supports C. They're just not updating the version, leaving it stuck in C89 mode.
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Re:Herb Sutter confirms no more support for C beyond C90 in ... by bunderbunder on Thursday May 03, 2012 @06:13PM (#3926075)
Touche.

Perhaps I should have said "Supporting versions of C past the point where one could plausibly just pipe the C code through a C++ compiler."

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Re:Herb Sutter confirms no more support for C beyond C90 in ... by adgar on Thursday May 03, 2012 @06:47PM (#3926183)
> Perhaps I should have said "Supporting versions of C past the point where one could plausibly just pipe the C code through a C++ compiler."

Like supporting for-loop variable declarations, which MSVC's C++ compilation mode (/TP) supports, but MSVC's C compilation mode (/TC) does not?

Oh - and what about declaring a variable anywhere other than the start of a scope? Allowed in C++, not in C. Cute.

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