pretty simple question I have here, but I couldn’t find the answer:
Assume I have some conditional clause made up of several conditions. E.g. something like
if((a == b && strcmp(string1, string)) || x <= 5)
My question is: Will all of those statements be evaluated, no matter what the result of the first ones was, or will the evaluation stop once the result is clear.
As I am not sure whether my question is clear, here’s an example:
if(a == 5 || b > 12 || (c = someFun()) == 3)
In this case, if a == 5, no further checks would be required, because the result of the big statement is TRUE, so we could simply continue. This would mean that someFun() would not be evaluated.
Is this the case? I know Java makes a difference here between && and & resp. || and | (the latter aren’t available in C anyways), but I do not know how C handles this
These operators are short-circuiting in C (and C++).