* Unexpected behavior of gcc on pointer dereference & increment
@ 2023-09-01 16:35 Tomas Bortoli
2023-09-01 16:50 ` David Edelsohn
2023-09-01 16:54 ` Paul Koning
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From: Tomas Bortoli @ 2023-09-01 16:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gcc
Hi,
I recently discovered that the following C statement:
pointer++;
is semantically equivalent to the following:
*pointer++;
Is this due to operators' priority? To me, that looks weird.
Thanks in advance,
Tomas
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* Re: Unexpected behavior of gcc on pointer dereference & increment
2023-09-01 16:35 Unexpected behavior of gcc on pointer dereference & increment Tomas Bortoli
@ 2023-09-01 16:50 ` David Edelsohn
2023-09-01 16:54 ` Paul Koning
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From: David Edelsohn @ 2023-09-01 16:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Tomas Bortoli; +Cc: gcc
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On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 12:37 PM Tomas Bortoli via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently discovered that the following C statement:
>
> pointer++;
>
> is semantically equivalent to the following:
>
> *pointer++;
>
> Is this due to operators' priority? To me, that looks weird.
>
Equivalent in the effect, but not the value. As you suspect, this is due
to operator precedence.
https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/operator_precedence
This is probably more appropriate for gcc-help or a general forum about the
C Language.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68829154/c-operator-precedence-postfix-increment-and-dereference
Thanks, David
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* Re: Unexpected behavior of gcc on pointer dereference & increment
2023-09-01 16:35 Unexpected behavior of gcc on pointer dereference & increment Tomas Bortoli
2023-09-01 16:50 ` David Edelsohn
@ 2023-09-01 16:54 ` Paul Koning
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From: Paul Koning @ 2023-09-01 16:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Tomas Bortoli; +Cc: gcc
> On Sep 1, 2023, at 12:35 PM, Tomas Bortoli via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I recently discovered that the following C statement:
>
> pointer++;
>
> is semantically equivalent to the following:
>
> *pointer++;
>
> Is this due to operators' priority? To me, that looks weird.
Yes, https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/operator_precedence shows that. Liberal use of parentheses is a very good practice.
paul
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