patch applied (ghc): fix #2594: we were erroneously applying masks, as the reporter suggested

[Simon Marlow]

Tue Sep 30 04:56:11 PDT 2008  Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com>
  * fix #2594: we were erroneously applying masks, as the reporter suggested
  My guess is that this is left over from when we represented Int8 and
  friends as zero-extended rather than sign-extended.  It's amazing it hasn't
  been noticed earlier.

    M ./rts/RtsAPI.c -3 +3

View patch online:
http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc/_darcs/patches/20080930115611-12142-16d3ba1e610d6368423c567b31c37fad7af88263.gz