C Evaluation

[ijabbott]

(07-15-2022 11:20 PM)KeithB Wrote:  If expression does guarantee left to right evaluation and short-circuiting so that you can do something like:
if (p && (p->status == 0))

so that p->status is not evaluated if p is NULL.

It's the && and || operators that guarantee left to right evaluation and short-circuiting. The `if` only cares whether the expression compares equal to 0 or not.