From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: C++, fonts and Allegro
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 09:35:45 +0200
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"Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" wrote:
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > > >What?  Pick a language, and stick with it.  C is *not* C++.
> > >
> > > But it takes very little effort to ensure that a C program compiles
> > > as C++.
> >
> > Actually, there are some things that are impossible to write so that they
> > compile in both C and C++.  Admittedly, such cases are rare, but they do
> > exist.
> 
> You've got me curious, do you have a short example?

No.  The examples I've seen were pretty involved, and I didn't keep them
(don't have much interest in C++ these days, anyway).

You might try reading the GCC bug-reporting list for a while, these issues
pop up there quite regularly.