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Re: regarding type promotion

Bob Plantz wrote: 
Another rule I gave them is "multiplication and division have higher
precedence than addition and subtraction; use parentheses in all other
cases."
++

I used to always get tripped up in embedded code because "==" has
precedence over "&" which I do not believe is intuitive to most people.

unsigned int value;
#define BITSET 0x1234

// Wrong: always true if value is odd since BITSET == BITSET is
evaluated first
//        which reduces to "(value & 1)"
if (value & BITSET == BITSET) {} // Bits are set

// Right:
if ((value & BITSET) == BITSET) {} // Bits are set


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