The &, ^, and | operators are called the logical operators. and-expression : equality-expressionand-expression&equality-expressionexclusive-or-expression : and-expressionexclusive-or-expression^and-expressioninclusive-or-expression : exclusive-or-expressioninclusive-or-expression|exclusive-or-expression For an operation of the form x op y, where op is one of the logical operators, overload resolution (14.2.4) is applied to select a specific operator implementation. The operands are converted to the parameter types of the selected operator, and the type of the result is the return type of the operator. The predefined logical operators are described in the following sections.