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+#pragma once
+
+/* Awfull hacky generation of the comparison operators by doing a lexicographic
+ * comparison between the choosen fields.
+ *
+ * ```
+ * GENERATE_CMP(ClassName, me->field1, me->field2, ...)
+ * ```
+ *
+ * will generate comparison operators semantically equivalent to:
+ *
+ * ```
+ * bool operator<(const ClassName& other) {
+ *   return field1 < other.field1 && field2 < other.field2 && ...;
+ * }
+ * ```
+ */
+#define GENERATE_ONE_CMP(COMPARATOR, MY_TYPE, FIELDS...) \
+    bool operator COMPARATOR(const MY_TYPE& other) const { \
+      const MY_TYPE* me = this; \
+      auto fields1 = std::make_tuple( FIELDS ); \
+      me = &other; \
+      auto fields2 = std::make_tuple( FIELDS ); \
+      return fields1 COMPARATOR fields2; \
+    }
+#define GENERATE_EQUAL(args...) GENERATE_ONE_CMP(==, args)
+#define GENERATE_LEQ(args...) GENERATE_ONE_CMP(<, args)
+#define GENERATE_CMP(args...) \
+    GENERATE_EQUAL(args) \
+    GENERATE_LEQ(args)