This test is actually harmful because we will search
for any garbage found past the empty search string.
Ref change 26509.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@26510
register const I32 first = *little;
register const char * const littleend = lend;
- if (!first && little >= littleend)
+ if (little >= littleend)
return (char*)big;
if (bigend - big < littleend - little)
return Nullch;
register const I32 first = *little;
register const char * const littleend = lend;
- if (!first && little >= littleend)
+ if (little >= littleend)
return (char*)bigend;
bigbeg = big;
big = bigend - (littleend - little++);