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Date:      Mon, 09 Sep 2024 07:39:09 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Kristof Provost <kp@freebsd.org>, Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>, Dmitry Salychev <dsl@freebsd.org>, Jan Knepper <jan@digitaldaemon.com>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: The Case for Rust (in any system)
Message-ID:  <202409090739.4897d92v078621@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <202DD893-B152-4B38-AE9B-862E08785396@freebsd.org>
References:  <202409082111.488LBTtI074660@critter.freebsd.dk> <202DD893-B152-4B38-AE9B-862E08785396@freebsd.org>

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David Chisnall writes:
> On 8 Sep 2024, at 22:11, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:

> > The logical progression of C++ adoption would start with using a C++
> > compiler as a better C compiler.
>
> Compiling C as C++ will *normally* give the same output, but not always.

But do you agree that the C++ compiler's take on things make more sense
than the C compiler's in these cases ?

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