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.TH OPERATOR 7 2011-09-09 "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

l l.

Operator	Associativity

() [] \-> .	left to right

! ~ ++ \-\- + \- (type) * & sizeof	right to left

* / %	left to right

+ \-	left to right

<< >>	left to right

< <= > >=	left to right

== !=	left to right

&	left to right

^	left to right

|	left to right

&&	left to right

||	left to right

?:	right to left

= += \-= *= /= %= <<= >>= &= ^= |=	right to left

,	left to right

.TE

.SH COLOPHON

This page is part of release 4.15 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/.