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Undefined behaviour or precedence question [duplicate]
The following code snippet in C:
i=i++;
has undefined behaviour according to a book.But my logic is this:
Since ++ operator has more precedence than = operator,it should be evaluated first,so i++ ...
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Should I use parentheses in logical statements even where not necessary?
Let's say I have a boolean condition a AND b OR c AND d and I'm using a language where AND has a higher order of operation precedent than OR. I could write this line of code:
If (a AND b) OR (c AND ...
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Evaluation order of the expressions
The C Programming Language by K & R states that C, like most languages, does not specify the order in which operands of an operator are evaluated. (The exceptions are &&,||,?: and ','). ...
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Why do bitwise operators have lower priority than comparisons?
Could someone explain the rationale, why in a bunch of most popular languages (see note below) comparison operators (==, !=, <, >, <=, >=) have higher priority than bitwise operators (&, |, ...
