> compile your C code with C++ You're most likely not aware (as most C++ coders unfortunately), but this advice is useless today since it's not possible to com

> compile your C code with C++ You're most likely not aware (as most C++ coders unfortunately), but this advice is useless today since it's not possible to compile current-time C code with a C++ compiler, the two languages have diverged too much since around the mid-90's. A C++ compiler only accepts a "common C/C++ subset", but this subset hasn't been updated to include C features that had been added after ca 1995. A better advice is to simply use the highest warning level and enable warnings-as-errors, this gives you mostly the same type checking as in C++ (minus the void* conversions, but that's how it should be since a void* is basically an "any*").