Next, they proved that the C standard didn&#x27;t define a programming language but a variety of rutabaga, and died of starvation by trying to eat source code listings.<p>Seriously. There&#x27;s a basic concept involved here called &quot;Quality Of Implementation&quot; which effectively guarantees that the programs produced by a compiler will <i>work</i> as long as you stay within reasonable bounds.<p>Might those bounds be a bit constrained on embedded systems? Sure. Them&#x27;s the breaks. However, having a stack size of zero is not worth worrying about.