This is similar to how we did things in my Data Structures class using FORTRAN 77 (back in the mid-Cretaceous); we allocated a fixed-size array and used it as our memory pool.
I can't be sure if this applies to your particular question, but I do would like to point out something about creating a linked list without using malloc.
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