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> Could someone tell me how to set the maximum number of characters per line
> to 70 for C++ mode.

I cannot tell you how but as almost anything in Emacs is tweakable it
would certainly be possible to hook-on a function that after each
keyboard press checked if the current column was greater then a
certain number, and if it was, BEEP at the user. Would be very
annoying though... :)