[Help-source-highlight] Re: "<" and "->" operator precedence ignorance.

[Lorenzo Bettini]

> Subject:
> Parsing error: "<" and "->" operator precedence ignorance.
> From:
> "Maxim Dementiev" <address@hidden>
> Date:
> Tue, 7 Dec 2004 12:56:57 +0300
> To:
> <address@hidden>
>
> Hi!
>
> Assume a little following program:
>
> int main( int , char ** )
> {
>   int a = 1;
>   struct B { int b; };
>   B b = { 2 };
>   B * const p = &b;
>   return a<p->b ? a : 3;
> }
>
> Last line is legal and must be interpreted as
>
>   return a < (p->b) ? a : 3;
>
> and here parentheses do nothing (in comparison with original line)
> because of operators precedence.
>
> But in source-highlight's (GNU source-highlight 1.11, Win32 version)
> output we will see (with "-fhtml -cmono.css" options):
>
>   ... <span class="normal">a</span><span
> class="string">&lt;p-&gt;</span><span class="normal">b</span> ...
>
> i.e. "<p->" is interpreted as string!!!

You're perfectly right!

I'll correct this problem in the next release of source-highlight.

thanks!

P.S. the right list to post such a message is this one (and you must be 
subscribed), not info-source-highlight :-)

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