On Fri Aug 20 17:59:16 EDT 2010, lyn...@orthanc.ca wrote:
> >> Should any program which can run under p9p and plan9 ever be compiled with
> >> g++ or another c++ compilers? Otherwise is it necessary to check for
> >> __cplusplus?
>
> C is a subset of C++, so a C++ program can validly include native C code.
that's no longer correct. c is not a subset of c++.
however, there is a subset of c++ and a subset of c that
can be compiled by either compiler. trivially,
int catch, delete, friend, new, operator,
protected, public, template,
this, throw, try, virtual;
works in c but not c++.
- erik
