What would a correct operator precedence table that lists all operators in the C language look like?
I have made extensive searches on the web, and found many such precedence tables. Alas, I haven't found a single one filling these requirements:
- Lists all operators in the C language as defined in ISO 9899:2011, without mixing in any C++ operators.
- Lists the operators in the complete and correct priority order.
This site has a pretty great precedence table:
http://www.difranco.net/compsci/C_Operator_Precedence_Table.htm
Explanation
Prec. denotes operator precedence, where group 1 has the highest precedence and group 17 the lowest.
Assoc. denotes operator associativity, where such is applicable. Associativity can be either left-to-right or right-to-left.
Sources
My ambition with this post is to provide a operator precedence table on-site at Stack Overflow, which is correct and canonical. This operator precedence table corresponds directly to chapter 6.5 of ISO 9899:2011, where we can read (6.5/3):
And then as a comment, in the informative (not normative) foot note:
All formal operator names from the table are taken from chapter 6.5, where such a name could be found in normative text. Informal names were included in the cases where the programmer community might be more familiar with another name than the one given in the standard.
Here:
http://basen.oru.se/c/operators.html
(I added _Alignof, which I think is the only new operator in C11, to my own table, and published it there. Maybe that's cheating? Comments and suggestions on how to improve the table are welcome.)