Issue with precedence and ++ and * unary operators in C

Question

My question is not long, but it's puzzling for me. I'm one of those people who (and I think rightfully so) want to know every single rule of the languages they learn. I want to know why the language does what it does.

So, why does ++*i increment the value of *i, rather than the i pointer? The preincrement operator has a higher precedence than the indirection operator. It seems like a common sense thing, but again, I must know exactly why. Please provide references if you can.

Answer 1

It cannot be parsed as *(++i), can it?

By the way, * and prefix ++ have the same precedence, and right-to-left associativity.