[tomp]

For some people, VM means everything that the language offers to the programmer at runtime. Sometimes libraries, usually GC. Even malloc could be considered VM.

[tptacek]

Those people are wrong. Malloc and crt0 aren't VM's.

[EdiX]

Some people are wrong, the word they are looking for is runtime, not VM.

[effinjames]

that's what i was looking for.

[batista]

It's about what "some people think". This is Computer Science. Things have a name and a definition.

By your logic "for some people, Earth is flat".