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From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
To: Richard Harvey Chapman <hchapman@3gfp.com>
Cc: gcc <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: regarding type promotion
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:02:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m37iad7xja.fsf@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48AAF5B6.3030704@3gfp.com> (Richard Harvey Chapman's message of "Tue\, 19 Aug 2008 12\:32\:54 -0400")

Richard Harvey Chapman <hchapman@3gfp.com> writes:

> Bob Plantz wrote:
>> Another rule I gave them is "multiplication and division have higher
>> precedence than addition and subtraction; use parentheses in all other
>> cases."
> ++
>
> I used to always get tripped up in embedded code because "==" has
> precedence over "&" which I do not believe is intuitive to most
> people.

That's why gcc warns about it, with -Wparentheses, which is part of
-Wall.

Ian

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-19 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-19  8:38 Sivaprasad.pv
2008-08-19 13:24 ` Andrew Haley
2008-08-19 15:35 ` Eljay Love-Jensen
2008-08-19 16:33 ` Bob Plantz
2008-08-19 16:34   ` Richard Harvey Chapman
2008-08-19 17:02     ` Ian Lance Taylor [this message]
2008-08-19 22:07       ` Richard Harvey Chapman
2008-08-20  2:28         ` Ian Lance Taylor
2008-08-19 22:36       ` Richard Harvey Chapman
2008-08-19 16:45   ` Richard Harvey Chapman

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