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Re:Dennis Ritchie’s first C compiler (c. 1972) by briantakita on Friday March 12, 2021 @03:27PM (#26440481)
> why does the bitwise AND have higher precedence than logical AND?

Why is this precedence weird? Bitwise AND tends to be used to transform data while a logical AND tends to be used for control flow.

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Re:Dennis Ritchie’s first C compiler (c. 1972) by colejohnson66 on Friday March 12, 2021 @03:42PM (#26440634)
I meant equals having a higher precedence than bitwise AND.

As in:

    if (x & 2 == 2)
...is actually parsed as:

    if (x & (2 == 2))
...which isn’t intuitive.
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Re:Dennis Ritchie’s first C compiler (c. 1972) by compiler-guy on Friday March 12, 2021 @05:42PM (#26441853)
See the above example from dmr himself
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