help with a 'C' problemR

[Chris Torek]

In article <4825 at inews.intel.com> bhoughto at pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
writes:
>	i = (fp->f_ops->fread_c)();
>The `()' operator has unspecified precedence wrt the `->' operator,
>hence the parentheses around the calling expression.

Minor correction: it is not `unspecified'; the expression

	fp->f_ops->fread_c()

must parse as

	(((fp)->f_ops)->f_read)()

`Classic C' compilers may require an indirection first; since function call
binds more tightly than indirection, you must write

	(*fp->f_ops->fread_c)()

in this case.
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