When I worked on embedded systems, we didn't use malloc() at all, just some heap functions. Even after that, there have been times where I worked on projects w

When I worked on embedded systems, we didn't use malloc() at all, just some heap functions. Even after that, there have been times where I worked on projects where there was a single malloc() and that was turned into a memory heap. However, a call to malloc() is pretty straightforward, you expect it to return a pointer to the allotted memory, or not. Using a GC or the boots libraries is not quite as straightforward, and the black box is a lot bigger.