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Does C have an equivalent of std::less from C++?

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I was recently answering a question on the undefined behaviour of doing p < q in C when p and q are pointers into different objects/arrays. That got me thinking: C++ has the same (undefined) behaviour of < in this case, but also offers the standard library template std::less which is guaranteed to return the same thing as < when the pointers can be compared, and return some consistent ordering when they cannot.

Does C offer something with similar functionality which would allow safely comparing arbitrary pointers (to the same type)? I tried looking through the C11 standard and didn't find anything, but my experience in C is orders of magnitude smaller than in C++, so I could have easily missed something.


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