-=> Quoting Paul Edwards to All <=-

 PE> int *x;
 PE> int y;

 PE> y = 3 * x;

is illegal - the only legal arithmetic operations on pointers are:-
addition or subtraction of an integer (including increment/decrement)
the difference between pointers.

 PE> y = * x;
 PE> y = *x;

are equivalent, whitespace is ignored.

(As I am quite sure you already know.)

 PE> I am wondering how mulitplication
 PE> and indirection are distinguished between.
 
This is interesting. I have never written a c compiler, but it couldn't
be too different to parsing BASIC, Forth or assembler for that matter.

First identify primary expressions, then test (right to left) for valid
unary operators ...

Here the primary expression "x" is a pointer, therefore the
"*" must
bind with it.


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