(I use C from 1985 to 1990. After I switched to C++ in 1990, I've not gone back to C.)
Not true for C++98.
$ g++ -std=c99 -c longlong.cpp cc1plus: warning: "-std=c99" is valid for C/ObjC but not for C++ longlong.cpp:1: error: integer constant is too large for "long" type
--Eljay
