Make == for associative arrays test for equality, not identity. _aaEq was added to runtime/internal/aaA.d which forwards to TypeInfo_AssociativeArray.equals in genobj.d. On the codegen side, DtoAAEquals was added to gen/aa.cpp and is called from EqualExp::toElem in gen/toir.cpp. I assume that the frontend will produce an error if == is used on associative arrays of different type. This fixes DMD bug 1429.

module arrays13;

extern(C) int printf(char*, ...);

void main()
{
    char[] a = "hello";

    assert(a >  "hel");
    assert(a >= "hel");
    assert(a <  "helloo");
    assert(a <= "helloo");
    assert(a >  "betty");
    assert(a >= "betty");
    assert(a == "hello");
    assert(a <= "hello");
    assert(a >= "hello");
}