[/ / Copyright (c) 2015 Boost development team / / Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying / file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) /] [section:strings C-string comparison] In the general case, pointers are compared using their value. However when type of the the pointers are `char*` or `wchar_t*`, __BOOST_TEST__ promotes them as null terminated `char` arrays and string comparison is used instead. [bt_example boost_test_string..BOOST_TEST string comparison..run-fail] [endsect]