Comment by matheusmoreira
4 days ago
High level languages have entire runtime systems dedicated to managing resources like that. My language can allocate, grow, shrink and deallocate stacks dynamically. It has complete visibility into everything, and the stacks themselves are designed to be relocatable and position-independent.
In C it's impossible to even get the stack pointer without dropping to assembly or using compiler builtins. It's hard to know where the stack starts or even how big it is.
I do agree with this, but just to be clear (for others), you don't need any runtime managing resource lifecycles to know that there shouldn't be pointers into free memory, such as the currently unused portion of the stack.