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Operators

At last, here is a table of operators and precedence.

The lines of the table are in order of precedence, so `a * b + 6' is interpreted as `(a * b) + 6'. When in doubt put brackets in!

The Associativity column shows how the operators group. E.g. `' groups left to right, meaning that is equivalent to rather than . Both are pretty useless expressions.

Associativity	Operator
left to right	() [], ->, .
right to left	! (negation), ~ (bit-not)
	++, --, - (unary) , * (unary), & (unary), sizeof
right to left	cast (type)
left to right	*, /, % (modulus)
left to right	- +
left to right	<<, >>
left to right	<, <=, >, >=
left to right	==, !=
left to right	& (bit-and), | (bit-or)
left to right	^ (bit-xor)
left to right	&& (logical and)
left to right	|| (logical or)
right to left	?:
right to left	=, +=, -=, /=, %=, >>=, &=
left to right	,