C++'s type system has always been stricter than C's. Even the following, totally valid C program, is ill-formed C++ int* x = malloc(5 * sizeof (int)); bec

C++'s type system has always been stricter than C's. Even the following, totally valid C program, is ill-formed C++ int* x = malloc(5 * sizeof (int)); because in C++ you cannot implicitly cast a void pointer.