C++ check if two objects are equal with overloading == operator, always false?

Question

I\'m attempting to check if two objects are equal by overloading the \'==\' operator for the class. Based on everything I\'ve read here on Stack Overflow and elsewhere, for exa

Answer 1

Your current operator== assumes the objects to be at the same address, so if you did something like

PossibleChar p1;
PossibleChar p2 = p1;
std::cout << p1 == p2 << '\n';

it would print false.

If that is indeed what you want, alright.
If it is not, you will need to define an operator==, which compares all necessary¹ members of the objects, not the addresses.

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¹ "necessary" means "members defining the state of the object" here, that is, it depends on the class which members should be compared.