The str==/!= arm of cbinop had an N_IDENT fast-path that assumed the operand
was a local: localfind returns 0 for a module-global str, so it loaded
(BP)/8(BP) — saved-BP/retaddr garbage — into rt_streq. `p == sepstr` silently
compared garbage (returned wrong). Mirror #148's global branch at both sub-sites
(rhs/lhs): off==0 && let_islet -> LEAQ name(SB) base, load ptr/len. Distinct
per-site fast-path, not a shared choke (the by-value-global-arg family
#148/#150/#151 closes separately). cstage-only; the wwstage str== twin is #146
(-> #125 batch).
Pin test/wcc/989_strglobeq (table-driven: const+let globals, rhs+lhs ident,
==/!=, unequal + len>1 rows; teeth-proven). Surfaced by the lib/path c3
buffer-ops gate-1 oracle.
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