From: drepper <drepper>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 20:31:34 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Produce a useful result for n < 0.
X-Git-Tag: libc-ud-971029~9
X-Git-Url: http://git.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/?p=kopensolaris-gnu%2Fglibc.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=8f68e02e36b21ee03c375baa2e1aa12a41812818

Produce a useful result for n < 0.
---

diff --git a/stdlib/l64a.c b/stdlib/l64a.c
index ba7a910c96..9fbde5d139 100644
--- a/stdlib/l64a.c
+++ b/stdlib/l64a.c
@@ -36,21 +36,20 @@ char *
 l64a (n)
      long int n;
 {
+  unsigned long int m = (unsigned long int) n;
   static char result[7];
   int cnt;
 
-  if (n <= 0l)
-    /* The value for N == 0 is defined to be the empty string.  When a
-       negative value is given the result is undefined.  We will
-       return the empty string.  */
+  if (m == 0l)
+    /* The value for N == 0 is defined to be the empty string. */
     return (char *) "";
 
   result[6] = '\0';
 
-  for (cnt = 5; n > 0; --cnt)
+  for (cnt = 5; m > 0; --cnt)
     {
-      result[cnt] = conv_table[n & 0x3f];
-      n >>= 6;
+      result[cnt] = conv_table[m & 0x3f];
+      m >>= 6;
     }
 
   return &result[cnt + 1];