[dahart]

Note the story isn’t detailed enough to know whether they were using what we’d normally call dynamic memory allocation. The embedded system might not have had a memory manager. Or they might have been, like you, fully statically allocating the memory. Kent could be noting that they’ll run off the end of their statically allocated memory, or run out of address space, because the code isn’t checking the bounds and may be doing something like appending history or sensor data to an array. I have no idea obviously, just imagining multiple ways Kent’s very brief description could be interpreted, it maybe shouldn’t be assumed that the engineering was doing something stupid or even very different from what we’d do today.