How to overload operator==() for a pointer to the class?

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No, there is not.

To overload operator==, you must provide a user-defined type as one of the operands and a pointer (either AString* or const char*) does not qualify.
And when comparing two pointers, the compiler has a very adequate built-in operator==, so it will not consider converting one of the arguments to a class type.

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