In C, an object is a
region of data storage in the execution environment, the contents of which can represent values
Each object has
- size
- alignment
- storage duration (automatic, static, allocated, thread-local)
- lifetime (equal to storage duration or temporary)
- effective type
- value (which may be indeterminate)
- optionally, an identifier that denotes this object. 1
Notably, a function is not an object.