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I suspect that samGwilliam is referring to a habit of including the C standard headers instead of their C++ versions.

Nah, more like I happened to load the thread before you finished your edit, so I had all the time to read your original post even after you made your edit :D

By the way, _T is reserved to the...

Careful there, those crazy homemade function templates use some identifiers reserved to the implementation :p

EDIT:
hmm... or are they actually provided as an extension by your implementation,...

Note that that FAQ pertains to C. This is C++, so casting the return value of malloc() is not bad style, but rather is required.