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.TH OPERATOR 7 2020-08-13 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
operator \- C operator precedence and order of evaluation
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page lists C operators and their precedence in evaluation.
.PP
.TS
lb lb lb
l l l.
Operator	Associativity	Notes
() [] \-> . ++ \-\-	left to right	[1]
! \(ti ++ \-\- + \- (type) * & sizeof	right to left	[2]
* / %	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
.PP
The following notes provide further information to the above table:
.PP
.PD 0
.IP [1] 4
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
.SH COLOPHON
This page is part of release 5.10 of the Linux
.I man-pages
project.
A description of the project,
information about reporting bugs,
and the latest version of this page,
can be found at
\%https://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.