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A comment on Dennis Ritchie’s first C compiler (c. 1972). Parent comment

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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