C and C++ have many differences, and not all valid C code is valid C++ code.
(By "valid" I mean standard code with defined behavior, i.e. not implementation-specific/undefined/etc.)
Is there any scenario in which a piece of code valid in both C and C++ would produce different behavior when compiled with a standard compiler in each language?
To make it a reasonable/useful comparison (I'm trying to learn something practically useful, not to try to find obvious loopholes in the question), let's assume:
#ifdef __cplusplus
, pragmas, etc.) The following, valid in C and C++, is going to (most likely) result in different values in i
in C and C++:
int i = sizeof('a');
See Size of character ('a') in C/C++ for an explanation of the difference.
Another one from this article:
#include <stdio.h>
int sz = 80;
int main(void)
{
struct sz { char c; };
int val = sizeof(sz); // sizeof(int) in C,
// sizeof(struct sz) in C++
printf("%d\n", val);
return 0;
}