how to distinguish & (addres of operator) and &(bitwise and operator?

Question

while programing C ..how that can be known??
i am working in C -wiht gcc compiler.

Answer 1

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Its simple

The address of operator should have a single variable name on its right side.

The bit wise AND operator should have two operands on its both sides.

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Answer 2

&(address of operator) is an unary operator, so it can be used only on one operand
e.g. a=&b;

while
&(bitwise operator) is a binary operator, so it can be used only on two operands.
e.g. a=b&c;