Imho, it's less to do with "misusing" pointers at the micro level and more to do with the macro level effects of pointer dense code. Of course, if you're not al

Imho, it's less to do with "misusing" pointers at the micro level and more to do with the macro level effects of pointer dense code. Of course, if you're not allocating or freeing any memory after initialization, then you avoid many of the risks... but structural spaghetti that can hide bugs can still ensue.