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Return `true` if the specified `lhs` compares smaller than the specified `rhs`, and `false` otherwise. A byte comparision is performed using memcpy.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdld_datumbinaryref.h>`

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bool
operator<(
    xref:BloombergLP/bdld/DatumBinaryRef.adoc[DatumBinaryRef] const& lhs,
    xref:BloombergLP/bdld/DatumBinaryRef.adoc[DatumBinaryRef] const& rhs);
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