Add the length checks back to string.compare()

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/core/strings/strings.odin b/core/strings/strings.odin
index 9b75c558b..c19bf8c37 100644
--- a/core/strings/strings.odin
+++ b/core/strings/strings.odin
@@ -242,7 +242,13 @@ Returns:
 - result: `-1` if `lhs` comes first, `1` if `rhs` comes first, or `0` if they are equal
 */
 compare :: proc "contextless" (lhs, rhs: string) -> (res: int) {
-	return runtime.string_cmp(lhs, rhs)
+	res = runtime.string_cmp(lhs, rhs)
+	if res == 0 && len(lhs) != len(rhs) {
+		return len(lhs) <= len(rhs) ? -1 : +1
+	} else if len(lhs) == 0 && len(rhs) == 0 {
+		return 0
+	}
+	return res
 }
 
 /*