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		aidenn0 on June 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GCC should warn about 2^16 and 2^32 and 2^64 Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe double star as an infix operator would be interpreted as multiplication of a dereference: `X ** Y` would be parsed as `X * (*Y)`

bodyfour on June 17, 2019 | [–]

...but it's unlikely to be accidentally used as an exponent, since you can't dereference a number.

jandrese on June 17, 2019 | [–]

At least in that case the compiler should produce a warning about trying to deference the not-pointer.

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