diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog b/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog
index c53f88538f6..7b0f83f0304 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2003-10-16  Paolo Carlini  <pcarlini@suse.de>
+
+	* src/locale.cc (locale::locale(const char*)): Tweak
+	a couple of comparisons to use basic_string operators.
+
 2003-10-16  Paolo Carlini  <pcarlini@suse.de>
 
 	PR libstdc++/12540
diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/src/locale.cc b/libstdc++-v3/src/locale.cc
index 12f77e1997e..c6525405211 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/src/locale.cc
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/src/locale.cc
@@ -221,21 +221,21 @@ namespace std
 		// Scan the categories looking for the first one
 		// different from LANG.
 		size_t __i = 0;
-		if (std::strcmp(__res.c_str(), "C") == 0)
+		if (__res == "C")
 		  for (; __i < _S_categories_size; ++__i)
 		    {
 		      __env = std::getenv(_S_categories[__i]);
 		      if (__env && std::strcmp(__env, "") != 0 
 			  && std::strcmp(__env, "C") != 0 
-			  && std::strcmp(__env, "POSIX") != 0) 
+			  && std::strcmp(__env, "POSIX") != 0)
 			break;
 		    }
 		else
 		  for (; __i < _S_categories_size; ++__i)
 		    {
 		      __env = std::getenv(_S_categories[__i]);
-		      if (__env && std::strcmp(__env, "") != 0 
-			  && std::strcmp(__env, __res.c_str()) != 0) 
+		      if (__env && std::strcmp(__env, "") != 0
+			  && __res != __env)
 			break;
 		    }