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by pjmlp 1809 days ago
And? Turbo and Borland C++ also had their off-the-shelf C++ runtime to fit into either 64 KB COM files or up to 512 KB memory space with EXE.
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In fairness, back then C++ was a much smaller superset of C than it is now.
Same applies to C.

Anyway just search for Jason Turner's talks on targeting Commodore 64 with C++.

Not really. That is, C's libraries grew less than C++'s libraries, over the past 25 years or so.
Do you use everything on the standard library? Uau.
Also people are using glibc++ on avr micro controllers.