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.\" Copyright 1989-1993, The Regents of the University of California.
.\" Copyright, the authors of the Linux man-pages project
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.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
.\"
.TH operator 7 2025-05-17 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
.SH NAME
operator \- C operator precedence and order of evaluation
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page lists C operators and their precedence in evaluation.
.P
.TS
lb lb lb
l l l.
Operator Associativity Notes
[] () . \-> ++ \-\- left to right [1]
++ \-\- & * + \- \[ti] ! sizeof right to left [2]
(type) right to left
* / % left to right
+ \- left to right
<< >> left to right
< > <= >= left to right
== != left to right
& left to right
\[ha] left to right
| left to right
&& left to right
|| left to right
?: right to left
= *= /= %= += \-= <<= >>= &= \[ha]= |= right to left
, left to right
.TE
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The following notes provide further information to the above table:
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.PD 0
.IP [1] 5
The ++ and \-\- operators at this precedence level are
the postfix flavors of the operators.
.IP [2]
The ++ and \-\- operators at this precedence level are
the prefix flavors of the operators.
.PD
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