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What is meant by identifier?

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An identifier is the friendly name used by the compiler to represent the location of an object in memory.

You could say *0x1234 = *0x3464 + *0x9587, or you could say A = B + C, given that A, B, and C, had those addresses. A, B, and C are identifiers in this example.

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