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What is precedence in c language?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Some operators are evaluated before others. For instance, consider *foo + i. It will not return the value of the memory cell positioned at foo + i, but first evaluate the asterisk first, and add i to that. *(foo + i) will work, however.

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