What is the point of the logical operators in C?

Question

I was just wondering if there is an XOR logical operator in C (something like && for AND but for XOR). I know I can split an XOR into ANDs, NOTs and ORs but a simple

Answer 1

The bitwise operators do not work "just the same" as the && and || operator. For a start, && and || perform short-circuited evaluation, whereas the the bitwise operators do not. In other words, you can't do something like this with the bitwise operators:

int * p = 0;
(p != 0) && (*p = 1);

because if you said:

(p != 0) & (*p = 1);

both subexpressions would be evaluated, and you would dereference the null pointer.