My question was regarding whether its the norm that C++ programmers use the heap when stack would have sufficed. Parent seemed to be hinting that they do. And,

My question was regarding whether its the norm that C++ programmers use the heap when stack would have sufficed. Parent seemed to be hinting that they do. And, yeah its disappointing C99 arrays did not make it to C++, one can use alloca to live a little dangerously, better to wrap it so that it allocates on the heap only if more than a certain size has been asked for. Too bad there is no portable way to find out how much stack space does the current process still have. There should have been a system call for that.