7 Expressions [expr]

7.6 Compound expressions [expr.compound]

7.6.10 Equality operators [expr.eq]

equality-expression:
relational-expression
equality-expression == relational-expression
equality-expression != relational-expression
1
#
The == (equal to) and the != (not equal to) operators group left-to-right.
The lvalue-to-rvalue ([conv.lval]), array-to-pointer ([conv.array]), and function-to-pointer ([conv.func]) standard conversions are performed on the operands.
The comparison is deprecated if both operands were of array type prior to these conversions ([depr.array.comp]).
2
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The converted operands shall have arithmetic, enumeration, pointer, or pointer-to-member type, or type std​::​nullptr_­t.
The operators == and != both yield true or false, i.e., a result of type bool.
In each case below, the operands shall have the same type after the specified conversions have been applied.
3
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If at least one of the operands is a pointer, pointer conversions, function pointer conversions, and qualification conversions are performed on both operands to bring them to their composite pointer type.
Comparing pointers is defined as follows:
  • (3.1)
    If one pointer represents the address of a complete object, and another pointer represents the address one past the last element of a different complete object,78 the result of the comparison is unspecified.
  • (3.2)
    Otherwise, if the pointers are both null, both point to the same function, or both represent the same address, they compare equal.
  • (3.3)
    Otherwise, the pointers compare unequal.
4
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If at least one of the operands is a pointer to member, pointer-to-member conversions ([conv.mem]), function pointer conversions ([conv.fctptr]), and qualification conversions ([conv.qual]) are performed on both operands to bring them to their composite pointer type ([expr.type]).
Comparing pointers to members is defined as follows:
  • (4.1)
    If two pointers to members are both the null member pointer value, they compare equal.
  • (4.2)
    If only one of two pointers to members is the null member pointer value, they compare unequal.
  • (4.3)
    If either is a pointer to a virtual member function, the result is unspecified.
  • (4.4)
    If one refers to a member of class C1 and the other refers to a member of a different class C2, where neither is a base class of the other, the result is unspecified.
    [Example
    : 
    struct A {};
struct B : A { int x; };
struct C : A { int x; };

int A::*bx = (int(A::*))&B::x;
int A::*cx = (int(A::*))&C::x;

bool b1 = (bx == cx);   // unspecified
    — end example
    ]
  • (4.5)
    If both refer to (possibly different) members of the same union, they compare equal.
  • (4.6)
    Otherwise, two pointers to members compare equal if they would refer to the same member of the same most derived object or the same subobject if indirection with a hypothetical object of the associated class type were performed, otherwise they compare unequal.
    [Example
    : 
    struct B {
  int f();
};
struct L : B { };
struct R : B { };
struct D : L, R { };

int (B::*pb)() = &B::f;
int (L::*pl)() = pb;
int (R::*pr)() = pb;
int (D::*pdl)() = pl;
int (D::*pdr)() = pr;
bool x = (pdl == pdr);          // false
bool y = (pb == pl);            // true
    — end example
    ]
5
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Two operands of type std​::​nullptr_­t or one operand of type std​::​nullptr_­t and the other a null pointer constant compare equal.
6
#
If two operands compare equal, the result is true for the == operator and false for the != operator.
If two operands compare unequal, the result is false for the == operator and true for the != operator.
Otherwise, the result of each of the operators is unspecified.
7
#
If both operands are of arithmetic or enumeration type, the usual arithmetic conversions are performed on both operands; each of the operators shall yield true if the specified relationship is true and false if it is false.
78)
As specified in [basic.compound], an object that is not an array element is considered to belong to a single-element array for this purpose.
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