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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: A curriosity in the C compiler...
Message-ID: <1590@solo3.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 28 Oct 88 16:32:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: solo3.1590
References: <530@uvicctr.UUCP>
Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <530@uvicctr.UUCP> sbanner1@uvicctr.UUCP (S. John Banner) writes:
\/*
\	This is a quick test of the C compiler, for implied bracketing...
\This will determine if the expression "a = b == c" is parsed
\as "(a = b) == c" (which is correct), or as "a = (b == c)" (which
\is not).
\*/

The `=' operator has lower priority than `==', so the SECOND parsing is
correct. I thought this was VERY basic C knowledge...
(In case you find the precedence strange: think of `a' as a boolean in which
is stored if `b' and `c' are equal or not.)
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