2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2854196657..383d20543f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ Fri Feb 21 17:19:27 2003  WATANABE Hirofumi  <eban@ruby-lang.org>
 	* eval.c (rb_f_require): do not need to abort if a DLEXT file
 	  is not found.
 
+Fri Feb 21 13:39:25 2003  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* string.c (rb_str_cmp_m): should use LONG2NUM().
+
 Fri Feb 21 12:45:50 2003  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* string.c (rb_str_cmp_m): two small bugs fixed.
diff --git a/string.c b/string.c
index acdfe40434..f567f75bfe 100644
--- a/string.c
+++ b/string.c
@@ -826,7 +826,7 @@ rb_str_cmp_m(str1, str2)
     else {
 	result = rb_str_cmp(str1, str2);
     }
-    return LONG2FIX(result);
+    return LONG2NUM(result);
 }
 
 static VALUE