Modern C

Chapter 13. Storage

This chapter covers

• Creating objects with dynamic allocation
• The rules of storage and initialization
• Understanding object lifetime
• Handling automatic storage

So far, most objects we have handled in our programs have been variables: that is, objects that are declared in a regular declaration with a specific type and an identifier that refers to the object. Sometimes they were defined at a different place in the code than they were declared, but even such a definition referred to them with a type and identifier. Another category of objects that we have seen less often is specified with a type but not with an identifier: compound literals, as introduced in section 5.6.4.

All such objects, variables or compound literals, ...