[OT] Visual C++ question

[Jonathan Arnold]

> I think that Grant answered my question. The suffix alone will not force
> VC++ to shift to C mode. 

Sorry to jump into this late, but I believe this is wrong. And in fact,
I've done some testing and found that, if you use a .c, then Visual C++
(and Borland C++) will treat the file as a C file.

Now, the test program that was posted will return "Broken C89 Compiler",
because one of the extensions used by both compilers is allowing // for
a comment, even in a .C file. However, if you use /Za (or -A for BCC32),
which disable extensions, then you get "C89 Compiler".

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