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by avadodin 28 days ago
Perhaps in c-with-classes(Cpre)? To the extent that its output could be considered C.

It looks like you're right and the answer to when was C++ a superset of C may well be "never".

From the description, Cfront had always been a full-fledged parser that only happened to output C since the very beginning.

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> a full-fledged parser

perhaps more accurately a fully fledged compiler (that emitted C)