In the C programing language, why do the bitwise operators (& and |) have lower precedence than the equality operator (==)? It does not make sense to me.
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In the C programing language, why do the bitwise operators (& and |) have lower precedence than the equality operator (==)? It does not make sense to me.
You need to ask Brian Kernighan or Dennis Ritchie.
From this forum: http://bytes.com/topic/c/answers/167377-operator-precedence
So, that might be a reason? I’m guessing since there are several layers of bitwise precendence (unlike relational comparisons) that it’s cruft that’s existed since…forever…and just was never corrected.