alloca(), #if, and other controversial things...

[Steven Ryan]

>screw up pointers...) or maintaining a linked list of blocks.  Seems like
>an awful lot of overhead to avoid writing a couple of calls to free().

I once heard of a description of difference between pascal and algol68:
  - pascal does the easy parts and lets the programmers do the hard parts.
  - algol68 does the hard parts and lets the programmers do the easy parts.