From 722ca8e0839a21f9210903cfa66c062beddb279c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: m-holger <m.holger@qpdf.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 18:52:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add `operator==` to `BaseHandle` for object equality comparison

---
 include/qpdf/ObjectHandle.hh | 7 +++++++
 libqpdf/QPDF_Array.cc        | 1 -
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/qpdf/ObjectHandle.hh b/include/qpdf/ObjectHandle.hh
index a69f5ae..1966cd3 100644
--- a/include/qpdf/ObjectHandle.hh
+++ b/include/qpdf/ObjectHandle.hh
@@ -61,6 +61,13 @@ namespace qpdf
 
         // The rest of the header file is for qpdf internal use only.
 
+        // Return true if both object handles refer to the same underlying object.
+        bool
+        operator==(BaseHandle const& other) const
+        {
+            return obj == other.obj;
+        }
+
         // For arrays, return the number of items in the array.
         // For null-like objects, return 0.
         // For all other objects, return 1.
diff --git a/libqpdf/QPDF_Array.cc b/libqpdf/QPDF_Array.cc
index 37b2c60..44c7a6d 100644
--- a/libqpdf/QPDF_Array.cc
+++ b/libqpdf/QPDF_Array.cc
@@ -400,7 +400,6 @@ QPDFObjectHandle::getArrayItem(int n) const
             return newNull();
         }
         objectWarning("returning null for out of bounds array access");
-
     } else {
         typeWarning("array", "returning null");
     }
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