"that any library -- any library -- that forces internal dynamic memory upon its user smells bad" Cough. While with embedded systems there definitely is a big

"that any library -- any library -- that forces internal dynamic memory upon its user smells bad" Cough. While with embedded systems there definitely is a big thing about dynamic memory allocation, much as I don't like it, it's not like very popular and successful libraries don't do this. It's a pretty common and accepted practice, and there are standard idioms for how it is done.