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I haven't used Visual Studio to compile C in a long long time, but does it support compiling files as C files as well? For example:

char ptr = malloc(10); // this is not valid C++

vs

char ptr = (char *)malloc(10); // This is usually required for Visual C++ (or was).

Yes, on the properties of the file you can specify whether to compile as C or C++. It can also be set as a project default.

I believe files with the .c extensions are compiled as C, not C++.

Please edit to add an asterisk in front of ptr in both cases.

It's the markdown getting in the way. You can tell by the varying italics.

Indeed. Still needs to be fixed.