Re: Operator precedence: am I missing something?

Jun Woong writes:
Kevin D. Quitt <KQu...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Why does the Standard not have an explicit table that shows the precedence
of operators? A web search provides numerous tables, mostly but not
entirely in agreement with one another.

Or am I missing something obvious?

The precedence table does not convey all information that the
grammar does. Open one of your C books and see whether the cast
operator has lower precedence than the unary sizeof, + and -
operators or has the same one as they do: (...)

What of it? So all the operators should not be stuffed into a single
precedence table, since that too easily gets misleading. And additional
info like associativity is needed too. On the other hand, a few partial
precedence tables would still be quite useful. But on the gripping
hand, if you are looking for a good C reference that's what C reference
books are for, not standards.

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Regards,
Hallvard
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