Re: int / int ?

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From: Chris Marriott
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 00:00

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Tony Street wrote in message <36618e67.0@isc-newsserver.isc.rit.edu>...
>Chris Marriott wrote in message
>>If you don't use parentheses to force the order of evaluation, does the C
>>language guarentee left-to-right evaluation? I don't have a copy of the
>>language reference at hand to check.
>
>Yes..... the C language will follow all precedence rules, all the time..


We're not talking here about precedence, Tony. "*" and "/" have the SAME
precedence.

What I'm asking is, given the expression "a*b/c", is there anything in the
language definition which says that this will be evaluated as:

    (a*b)/c

or is the compiler free to evaluate it as:

    a*(b/c)

if it wishes to do so?

Chris
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Subject: Re: int / int ?
Date: 1998/11/29
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