# HG changeset patch
# User Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
# Date 797239080 0
# Node ID f610f9d7e3caccf77a659153cacca66919f72095
# Parent  f6bc91242185d267844d9647eab34dee3e1f5246
(get_doc_string): In (STRING . INTEGER), if INTEGER
is negative, negate it.

diff -r f6bc91242185 -r f610f9d7e3ca src/doc.c
--- a/src/doc.c	Fri Apr 07 07:17:19 1995 +0000
+++ b/src/doc.c	Fri Apr 07 07:18:00 1995 +0000
@@ -72,7 +72,10 @@
 /* Extract a doc string from a file.  FILEPOS says where to get it.
    If it is an integer, use that position in the standard DOC-... file.
    If it is (FILE . INTEGER), use FILE as the file name
-   and INTEGER as the position in that file.  */
+   and INTEGER as the position in that file.
+   But if INTEGER is negative, make it positive.
+   (A negative integer is used for user variables, so we can distinguish
+   them without actually fetching the doc string.)  */
 
 static Lisp_Object
 get_doc_string (filepos)
@@ -99,6 +102,8 @@
     {
       file = XCONS (filepos)->car;
       position = XINT (XCONS (filepos)->cdr);
+      if (position < 0)
+	position = - position;
     }
   else
     return Qnil;