With C23 (nullptr, auto typing, typeof) and C11 (generics) it got more guarantees and type-related primitives. You can still do void*, but you are strongly discouraged from it.
#include "pretty.h"
void print_int(int value){
println(value);
}
int main (int argc, string argv[])
{
long value = 23849234723748234;
print_int(value);
}
How is this strongly typed? $ cc test.c -o test && ./test
-1411401334
And to be clear, weak vs strong isn't a boolean property but a spectrum, but would be hard to argue with a straight face than C is a strongly typed language.Java is weakly typed in its generics, despite being statically typed. I’m sure there are more examples.
It's weak in many areas, such as, oh, that you can implicitly convert an out-of-range floating point value to an integer type and get undefined behavior.
Linkage in C is not type safe. An extern int x declaration in one translation unit can be matched with an extern double x = 0.0 definition in another. Linkers for c typically accept that without a diagnotic: the program links.