How to implement a queue with stack(s)?

This problem is from the book Algorithms, 4th Edition.

Queue with three stacks. Implement a queue with three stacks so that each queue operation takes a constant (worst-case) number of stack operations.

Warning : high degree of difficulty.

When I search the Internet to find a solution, I find varieties of …

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"alloca" vs "placement new"

WHAT?!

For most time, we use malloc or new for memory allocation, which will get it on heap.

However, access memory on heap is not as effective as the memory on stack, because the heap is "free-floating region of memory". To the contrary, memory on stack is managed by CPU …

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