(strout): Treat the characters at *ptr as unsigned char.

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 459bbe31de9..0619e0b24dd 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2001-08-01  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
+
+        * print.c (strout): Cast the character passed to insert_char to
+        unsigned char, to avoid sign extension when it is promoted to int.
+
 2001-07-31  Gerd Moellmann  <gerd@gnu.org>
 
         * fileio.c (Finsert_file_contents): Don't treat a return value
diff --git a/src/print.c b/src/print.c
index 2fa74543c43..bd0546895f6 100644
--- a/src/print.c
+++ b/src/print.c
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ strout (ptr, size, size_byte, printcharfun, multibyte)
       if (size == size_byte)
         {
           for (i = 0; i < size; ++i)
-            insert_char (*ptr++);
+            insert_char ((unsigned char )*ptr++);
         }
       else
         {