>The real issue is if you don't know at compile-time what resources you'll need at run-time. For some problems that can be an intractable problem for making a s

>The real issue is if you don't know at compile-time what resources you'll need at run-time. For some problems that can be an intractable problem for making a safe product, including, to my knowledge, everything that runs on a rich OS. You're right, but you should still constrain yourself to these few instances to use malloc instead of wildly using it everywhere.