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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: A string pointer to a static or dynamic string : how to free the dynamic one ?
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"james...@alumni.caltech.edu" <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:

> On Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 9:44:06 AM UTC-5, Tim Rentsch wrote:
>
>> Keith Thompson <Keith.S.T...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> ...
>
>>> The word "object" is not about object-oriented programming.  The C
>>> standard defines an "object" as a "region of data storage in the
>>> execution environment, the contents of which can represent values";
>>> it doesn't use the term "variable".  The C++ standard uses the word
>>> "object" in the same way, though it doesn't have quite the same
>>> formal definition.
>>>
>>> An "object" is just a variable, except that a variable typically has
>>> a name.
>>
>> Just a quibble:  C does have some objects that are not variables
>> in the usual sense of the word. ...
>
> True, and his comment implies that fact, by using the word "except"
> - when that exception does not apply, you still have an object, but
> not a variable.

I suppose that is one way of reading it.  But certainly it
is not the only way of reading it.