Bug#278081: gcc-3.3: REGRESSION: Doesn't follow precedence

[Adam Majer <adamm@galacticasoftware.com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

>This isn't a question of precedence, which only affects the way an
>expression is interpreted.  It's strictly a problem of evaluation
>order.  Precedence determines how the expression is parsed, i.e.
>(-X()) + Y() vs (-X() + Y) () an so forth.
>  
>
I guess this is much easier on the compiler. In most cases it can
optimize the code better than it could do otherwise. For example,

-sin(5)+sqrt(5) -> sqrt(5)-sin(5)

Does mess things up for people that think (or thought) that order of
precedence is equal to order of evaluation. :)

- Adam

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