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From: wittig@gmdzi.UUCP (Georg Wittig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: precedence of ?:
Message-ID: <1265@gmdzi.UUCP>
Date: 11 Sep 89 13:15:40 GMT
Organization: GMD - Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung mbH
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How should
	0 ? 0 : i = 0
be interpreted?

1)	as	(0) ? (0) : (i=0)
	resulting in a (strange but) legal expression

or 2)	as	(0 ? 0 : i) = 0
	resulting in a syntax error
?

Existing compilers don't agree on which alternative is the correct one.

Thanks in advance,
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