From fee5fbb47fbc9fb9c025243cd78064bc946e20de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Youngman <jay@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 16:37:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Applied Savannah patch #2692 (allowing get_short to process
 negative integers).

---
 locate/locate.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/locate/locate.c b/locate/locate.c
index 184c221c..2a72549d 100644
--- a/locate/locate.c
+++ b/locate/locate.c
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ get_short (fp)
 
   register short x;
 
-  x = fgetc (fp) << 8;
+  x = (signed char) fgetc (fp) << 8;
   x |= (fgetc (fp) & 0xff);
   return x;
 }