diff --git a/tests/include/test/helpers.h b/tests/include/test/helpers.h
index 27e5599..ef32cdf 100644
--- a/tests/include/test/helpers.h
+++ b/tests/include/test/helpers.h
@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@
     const char *filename;
     int line_no;
     unsigned long step;
+    char line1[76];
+    char line2[76];
 #if defined(MBEDTLS_TEST_MUTEX_USAGE)
     const char *mutex_usage_error;
 #endif
@@ -132,6 +134,27 @@
 void mbedtls_test_info_reset( void );
 
 /**
+ * \brief           Record the current test case as a failure if two integers
+ *                  have a different value.
+ *
+ *                  This function is usually called via the macro
+ *                  #TEST_EQUAL.
+ *
+ * \param test      Description of the failure or assertion that failed. This
+ *                  MUST be a string literal. This normally has the form
+ *                  "EXPR1 == EXPR2" where EXPR1 has the value \p value1
+ *                  and EXPR2 has the value \p value2.
+ * \param line_no   Line number where the failure originated.
+ * \param filename  Filename where the failure originated.
+ * \param value1    The first value to compare.
+ * \param value2    The second value to compare.
+ *
+ * \return          \c 1 if the values are equal, otherwise \c 0.
+ */
+int mbedtls_test_equal( const char *test, int line_no, const char* filename,
+                        unsigned long long value1, unsigned long long value2 );
+
+/**
  * \brief          This function decodes the hexadecimal representation of
  *                 data.
  *
diff --git a/tests/include/test/macros.h b/tests/include/test/macros.h
index 9b3fc9c..a88b2e8 100644
--- a/tests/include/test/macros.h
+++ b/tests/include/test/macros.h
@@ -73,15 +73,21 @@
        }                                                    \
     } while( 0 )
 
-/** Evaluate two expressions and fail the test case if they have different
- * values.
+/** Evaluate two integer expressions and fail the test case if they have
+ * different values.
  *
- * \param expr1     An expression to evaluate.
- * \param expr2     The expected value of \p expr1. This can be any
- *                  expression, but it is typically a constant.
+ * The two expressions should have the same signedness, otherwise the
+ * comparison is not meaningful if the signed value is negative.
+ *
+ * \param expr1     An integral-typed expression to evaluate.
+ * \param expr2     Another integral-typed expression to evaluate.
  */
-#define TEST_EQUAL( expr1, expr2 )              \
-    TEST_ASSERT( ( expr1 ) == ( expr2 ) )
+#define TEST_EQUAL( expr1, expr2 )                                      \
+    do {                                                                \
+        if( ! mbedtls_test_equal( #expr1 " == " #expr2, __LINE__, __FILE__, \
+                                  expr1, expr2 ) )                      \
+            goto exit;                                                  \
+    } while( 0 )
 
 /** Allocate memory dynamically and fail the test case if this fails.
  * The allocated memory will be filled with zeros.