help with a 'C' problemR

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.brl.mil
Thu Jun 27 13:30:05 AEST 1991


In article <4878 at inews.intel.com> bhoughto at bishop.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>>>The `()' operator has unspecified precedence wrt the `->' operator,
>Ok, ok, explicitly, true; implicitly, false; it's all
>deducible from the allowable types of operands; ...

Not only is this not a UNIX Wizardly topic, but it's not even C wizardly.
The production rule "postfix-expression: postfix-expression -> identifier"
in conjunction with "postfix-expression: postfix-expression ( argument-
expression-list )" specifies how to parse p->f().  This is neither
unspecified nor ambiguous.



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