From 02f47011ee21dbd5db6efaae236f289c40346b01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: GAMMACASE <31375974+GAMMACASE@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2025 23:45:42 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Fix CKeyValues3Context::AllocString returning nullptr on
 empty strings

---
 tier1/keyvalues3.cpp | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tier1/keyvalues3.cpp b/tier1/keyvalues3.cpp
index ccfb6f2d..021c3ea9 100644
--- a/tier1/keyvalues3.cpp
+++ b/tier1/keyvalues3.cpp
@@ -2034,6 +2034,9 @@ const char* CKeyValues3Context::AllocString( const char* pString, UtlSymLargeId_
 	if(out_symid)
 		*out_symid = sym;
 
+	if(sym == UTL_INVAL_SYMBOL_LARGE)
+		return "";
+
 	return m_Symbols.String( sym );
 }