So, uh, this was a little silly to track down. So, having the upper limit
as unsigned was a mistake, since this would cause negative valid lengths to
convert into an unsigned value within the first two flag comparison cases
A -1 valid length can occur if one of the strings starts with a null character
in a vector's first element. (It will be zero and we then subtract it to
make the length zero-based).
Fixes this edge-case up and expands a test to check for this in the future.
For these unit tests we no longer need to put them in the disabled tests
file. Instead it will be skipped if the host doesn't support the feature
required.
