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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:36:08 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, David Leben wrote:

> > Those ``minor differences'' make a world of difference in some
> > cases.  For details and some examples, see section 8.4 of the DJGPP
> > FAQ list.
> 
> That section only talks about //-style comments.

You've overlooked the following part of that section:

  While admittedly perverse, this little monstrosity was written with the
  sole purpose of demonstrating that C and C++ have quite different semantics 
  under certain circumstances.  Some people think that C is a proper subset
  of C++; the above example shows that this is _not_ true.

In other words, the // comments are just one example of the differences 
between the two languages.