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They were deliberately leaving their C compiler broken because they considered C++ to be the replacement for C.


C++ uses an identical preprocessor.


That has sometimes been true, but for example C++ didn't have variadic macros, maybe still doesn't, because they were added to C after Microsoft decided to stop following C development. https://stackoverflow.com/a/21515839 goes into details of other differences.




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