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wouldnt ffi.C.memcmp() help?

But for floating types (single, double) equality would fail if the floats are nan, even if they are the same binary value.

On 3/30/2011 10:06 AM, Daurnimator wrote:
On 31 March 2011 03:53, Mike Pall<mikelu-1103@mike.de>  wrote:
Daurnimator wrote:
Those docs still don't explain why they have an identity crisis...
assert (a==a) -- Blows up

Look at the error message. You can compare two pointers, but not
two aggregates.

--Mike

But surely you can see that the aggregates are the same type, and
located at the same place in memory: how could they ever not be equal?