Can a simple a==b 'hang' in and endless loop?

[Fuzzyman]

I'm not familiar with the C basic datatypes - I assume it has an array
or list like object.

Would it contain a sequence of poitners to the members ? In which case
they would only be equal if the pointers are the same.

In this case :

a = ['some string']
b = ['somestring']
a == b
False (probably)

Incorrectly using Python syntax for a C example of course :-)

All the best,

Fuzzyman
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