Fix a bug where bitwise compare should be used to compare sentinels #328

Job	Run time
Doxygen check	14s
Compute matrix	3s
Verify Dev Containers / Verify devcontainers	8s
CUDA12.3 gcc / amd64 / Build gcc12/C++17 / Build gcc12/C++17	4m 17s
CUDA11.8 gcc / amd64 / Build gcc11/C++17 / Build gcc11/C++17	3m 48s
CUDA12.3 gcc / arm64 / Build gcc12/C++17 / Build gcc12/C++17	3m 19s
Verify Dev Containers / List devcontainers	2s
Verify Dev Containers / cuda12.3-gcc12	1m 10s
Verify Dev Containers / cuda11.8-gcc11	1m 7s
Verify Dev Containers / cuda12.3-gcc12	1m 12s
CUDA12.3 gcc / arm64 / Test ${{ inputs.test_name }}	0s
CUDA11.8 gcc / amd64 / Test gcc11/C++17 / Test gcc11/C++17	4m 2s
CUDA12.3 gcc / amd64 / Test gcc12/C++17 / Test gcc12/C++17	4m 56s
CI success	1s
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