op precedence in C - (nf)

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ucbcad!moore    Oct 23 20:43:00 1982

    The problem is that you are using & instead of &&.  Using logical
    instead of bitwise AND in if() statements is something which must
    be bred out of C programmmers.

Excuse me? Only if you want an incompetent new breed of C programmers.  Very 
typical in C is to use '&' and masks to extract fields, i.e. :

		if ( (stat&UPPER_BYTE_MASK) == ERROR_VALUE ) {
		    /* blah */
		}

	Are you implying that this can or should be done with && ?


		Peter Moore

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