You may be mistaking C for a fancy macro assembler. It's not-- It's a high level language, even though a fairly low level looking one. The obligation of the la

You may be mistaking C for a fancy macro assembler. It's not-- It's a high level language, even though a fairly low level looking one. The obligation of the language is to behave as the spec says, and there may not be a close mapping between your program and what runs on the machine, though there often is. An "Object" is a concept defined and used extensively in the language specification; "a region of data storage in the execution environment,".