From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!alice!sjb Newsgroups: net.lang.c Title: Re: re: if bug in Ritchie C compiler - (nf) Article-I.D.: alice.1441 Posted: Sun Jan 30 23:24:38 1983 Received: Mon Jan 31 04:41:33 1983 References: pur-phy.662 The reference manual clearly states that ++ has a higher precedence than -. Therefore, if the compiler throws the block away because A==B, it wouldn't seem to be following the rules of precedence.