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Re: Remembering the order of precedence

From Tim Prince <tprince@computer.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Remembering the order of precedence
Date 2016-07-26 06:41 -0400
Message-ID <dvot7gF7pepU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 7/25/2016 2:00 PM, luser droog wrote:
> Blast from the Past!
> Insightful breakdowns by Tim Rentsch and Kaz (and friends):
> 
> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.lang.c/efPI5ASnIjE/discussion
> 
Heavy use of parentheses is taken by compiler writers as an excuse to
set K&R style legacy defaults which ignore them.  Back in the x87 days,
observing them could be excessively time-consuming in mixed float/double
context.

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Remembering the order of precedence luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2016-07-25 11:00 -0700
  Re: Remembering the order of precedence BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-07-25 19:51 +0100
  Re: Remembering the order of precedence Tim Prince <tprince@computer.org> - 2016-07-26 06:41 -0400

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