Hi folks,

When I develop s/w, I typically try to avoid ambiguous statements like the following due to possible issues with operator precedence.

After referring to the following document, I'm still unclear as to whether the pre-decrement operator or the pointer-dereference operator have the same precedence(when reading the code left-to-right), or if the decrement operator has precedence over the pointer dereference operator.

I'm debugging some code (for work-related purposes), and my application is seg-faulting at a line very similar to what I have described above. Can someone please clarify my doubts about operator precedence?

My gut feeling is that the code should have written as:

right to left, so it should effect count and not the pointer.

but put braces around as you did, it makes it easier for everyone

Thank you.

Read that document more carefully. Notice the difference between Suffix and Prefix operators. The document clearly shows the prefix operators are processed after the dereference.