Is C considered weakly typed Why

Question

C++ has always struck me as one of the most highly typed languages available.

So I was surprised to see that C++ is weakly typed.

Apparently,
 

Because type-casting allows one to interpret an integer field of a structure as a pointer, C and C++ are considered loosely typed.

 

Is the presence of type casting the only thing that matters?

Is the explicitness of such casting unimportant?

 

Is it truly universally acknowledged that C++ is weakly typed?

Why?

Answer 1

Let me give you a simple example:

 if ( a + b )

C/C+= allows an implicit conversion from float to int to Boolean.

A strongly-typed language would not allow such an implicit conversion.