Chapter 4. Expressions (EXP)

Recommendations and Rules

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Risk Assessment Summary

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Related Rules and Recommendations

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EXP00-C. Use parentheses for precedence of operation

C programmers commonly make errors regarding the precedence rules of C operators due to the unintuitive low-precedence levels of &, |, ^, <<, and >>. Mistakes regarding precedence rules can be avoided by the suitable use of parentheses. Using parentheses defensively reduces errors and, ...

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