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The following arithmetic expression shows an example of operators and operands: + = In the above example, '+' is the symbol for the operation called addition.. The operand '3' is one of the inputs (quantities) followed by the addition operator, and the operand '6' is the other input necessary for the operation.
Assignment operators (+=, *= etc.) are combinations of a binary operator and the assignment operator (=) and will be evaluated using the ordinary operators, which can be overloaded. Cast operators (()) cannot be overloaded, but it is possible to define conversion operators.
The operator precedence is a number (from high to low or vice versa) that defines which operator takes an operand that is surrounded by two operators of different precedence (or priority). Multiplication normally has higher precedence than addition, [ 1 ] for example, so 3+4×5 = 3+(4×5) ≠ (3+4)×5.
The semantics of operators particularly depends on value, evaluation strategy, and argument passing mode (such as Boolean short-circuiting). Simply, an expression involving an operator is evaluated in some way, and the resulting value may be just a value (an r-value), or may be an object allowing assignment (an l-value).
The increment operator increases, and the decrement operator decreases, the value of its operand by 1. The operand must have an arithmetic or pointer data type, and must refer to a modifiable data object. Pointers values are increased (or decreased) by an amount that makes them point to the next (or previous) element adjacent in memory.
However, logical operators treat each operand as having only one value, either true or false, rather than treating each bit of an operand as an independent value. Logical operators consider zero false and any nonzero value true. Another difference is that logical operators perform short-circuit evaluation.
When languages provide bit operations that don't directly map to hardware instructions, compilers must synthesize the operation from available operators. An especially useful bit operation is count leading zeros used to find the high set bit of a machine word, though it may have different names on various architectures. [1]
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