Here is another patch to complete __gnu_debug::basic_string<> Standard conformity. This one is adding the missing compare overloads. I also would like to propose to change how __gnu_debug::basic_string<> is tested. I considered activating checks when _GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS is defined but it turns out that to do so this light-debug mode should then also consider _GLIBCXX_DEBUG_PEDANTIC. I prefer to avoid this. So I restored previous behavior. I'm now checking for the _GLIBCXX_TEST_DEBUG_STRING macro to force usage of . This way I am testing it using: make check-debug CXXFLAGS=-D_GLIBCXX_TEST_DEBUG_STRING     libstdc++: Add __gnu_debug::basic_string<>::compare overloads     Rather than adding those implementations we are ading a:     using _Base::compare;     so that any compare method not implemented at __gnu_debug::basic_string     level are injected from the base class.     Also review how __gnu_debug::basic_string is tested. Now require to define     _GLIBCXX_TEST_DEBUG_STRING when running 'make check-debug'.     libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog             * include/debug/string: Add using _Base::compare.             (__gnu_debug::basic_string<>::compare(const basic_string<>&)): Remove.             (__gnu_debug::basic_string<>::compare(size_type, size_type, const basic_string<>&)):             Remove.             (__gnu_debug::basic_string<>::compare(size_type, size_type, const basic_string<>&,             size_type, size_type)): Remove.             * testsuite/util/testsuite_string.h [_GLIBCXX_TEST_DEBUG_STRING]: Include .             * testsuite/21_strings/basic_string/operations/compare/char/1.cc: Include testsuite_string.h             and use __gnu_test::string.             * testsuite/21_strings/basic_string/operations/compare/char/13650.cc: Likewise.             * testsuite/21_strings/basic_string/operations/compare/char/2.cc: Likewise.             * testsuite/21_strings/basic_string/operations/rfind/char/1.cc: Likewise.             * testsuite/21_strings/basic_string/operations/rfind/char/2.cc: Likewise.             * testsuite/21_strings/basic_string/operations/rfind/char/3.cc: Likewise.             * testsuite/21_strings/basic_string/operations/compare/wchar_t/1.cc: Include testsuite_string.h             and use __gnu_test::wstring.             * testsuite/21_strings/basic_string/operations/compare/wchar_t/13650.cc: Likewise.             * testsuite/21_strings/basic_string/operations/compare/wchar_t/2.cc: Likewise. Tested under Linux x86_64. Ok to commit ? François