Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: op= operators Message-ID: <5030@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 3-Oct-84 08:09:01 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.5030 Posted: Wed Oct 3 08:09:01 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Oct-84 06:09:41 EDT References: <460@astrovax.UUCP> Organization: Ballistics Research Lab Lines: 9 *ptr++ += 2; means: get the datum addressed by ptr; (increment ptr as a side-effect, AFTER getting the datum) add 2 to the datum; put the modified datum back from whence it came; (if any action is needed to fix side-effects, do it now) This is figured out by following the operator precedence hierarchy.