When me and my friend were preparing for exam, my friend said that x ;
is the same as x =3;
It is not true but is x ;
same as x =1;
or is (x ) ;
? Could I generalize it? I.e. x ;
or ((((((x ) ) ) ) ) ) ;
is equivalent to x =7;
Maybe it's completely wrong and it is true for x;
or ( ( x));
equivalent to x =3;
Also it should generalize to --x;
and x--;
CodePudding user response:
The behavior of your program can be understood using the following rules from the standard.
From lex.pptoken#3.3:
Otherwise, the next preprocessing token is the longest sequence of characters that could constitute a preprocessing token, even if that would cause further lexical analysis to fail, except that a header-name is only formed within a #include directive.
And from lex.pptoken#5:
[ Example: The program fragment
x y
is parsed asx y
, which, ifx
andy
have integral types, violates a constraint on increment operators, even though the parsex y
might yield a correct expression. — end example ]
is x ; same as x =1;
Using the statement quoted above, x
will be parsed as x
.
But note that from increment/decrement operator's documentation:
The operand expr of a built-in postfix increment or decrement operator must be a modifiable (non-const) lvalue of non-boolean (since C 17) arithmetic type or pointer to completely-defined object type. The result is prvalue copy of the original value of the operand.
That means the result of x
will a prvalue. Thus the next postfix increment
cannot be applied on that prvalue since it requires an lvalue. Hence, x
will not compile.
Similarly, you can use the above quoted statements to understand the behavior of other examples in your snippet.