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Re:Cheerp – A C/C++ compiler for web applications by pmelendez on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @12:10PM (#8168414)
The subset that is the interception of both? which would be a subset of C. (Although I am pretty sure that wasn't what the author had in mind)
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Re:Cheerp – A C/C++ compiler for web applications by oso2k on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @12:18PM (#8168469)
Bjarne has always maintained that C++ is (mostly) backwards compatible with C. And that's what most people mean by C/C++.
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Re:Cheerp – A C/C++ compiler for web applications by _kst_ on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @12:27PM (#8168523)
I know that C++ is mostly, but not entirely, backwards compatible with C. That doesn't answer the question of what "C/C++" means.

They're two different languages. The problem is that different people mean different things by "C/C++". Some people mean "C and C++"; others just seem to be unaware that they're distinct.

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Re:Cheerp – A C/C++ compiler for web applications by multimillion on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @05:13PM (#8170217)
Cheerp, like clang (upon which it is based), can compile both C and C++ files.
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