Difference between Object and instance : C++

Question

I followed a number of posts on SO, and finally I can draw a conclusion that when we have something like :

Person name;

name

Answer 1

"Object" and "instance" are almost interchangeable. In C++, an object is formally any region of storage. "Instance" is not a formally defined term, but we typically refer to "instances of type X", most commonly used with class types.

Foo f;

This declaration creates an object named f. The object's type is Foo. You could say the object f is an instance of Foo.

Your attempt to distinguish the terms was incorrect. The two things you've actually pointed out are two different ways of creating objects.

Person name;

In this case, we're creating an object name of type Person.

Person* name = new Person();

In this case, we're creating an object name of type Person* (pointer to Person). We are also creating another object of type Person using the expression new Person(). This expression returns a pointer, which we are initialising the name object with.