In article <4825 at inews.intel.com> bhoughto at pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes: >The `()' operator has unspecified precedence wrt the `->' operator, Sez who? a->b() is unambiguous, certainly according to ANSI. a->(b()) is obviously meaningless in C (it could mean something in a language with names as datatypes, such as LISP).