From 2dc6d0d5ea93e1cc47e372bf142e46a9158ce51c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Herb Sutter <herb.sutter@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2021 11:21:41 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Elaborated that we can't generally add comparison operators
 to C structs

---
 CppCoreGuidelines.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CppCoreGuidelines.md b/CppCoreGuidelines.md
index 08e0743..d8d89f9 100644
--- a/CppCoreGuidelines.md
+++ b/CppCoreGuidelines.md
@@ -4565,6 +4565,10 @@ In particular, if a concrete type is copyable, prefer to also give it an equalit
 
 ##### Note
 
+For structs intended to be shared with C code, defining `operator==` may not be feasible.
+
+##### Note
+
 Handles for resources that cannot be cloned, e.g., a `scoped_lock` for a `mutex`, are concrete types but typically cannot be copied (instead, they can usually be moved),
 so they can't be regular; instead, they tend to be move-only.