C++ is not a superset of C, there are plenty of legal C constructs that will trigger errors when compiled with a C++ compiler.
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C is not a superset of C either. C++ is a superset of a C version, even if they then went on to add stuff that wasn't added to the other
C++ is a sane defaults superset of C.
But most of them are new constructs, not found in the venerable C90.