From 3049c6038a546f0f43ae0b078775790e744e4ab7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Cousens <github@dcousens.com>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 21:25:23 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] add failing test for mixed signed input

---
 index.js      | 8 ++++++--
 test/basic.js | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 92769c9..a4ba764 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -93,8 +93,12 @@ function Buffer (subject, encoding, noZero) {
     for (i = 0; i < length; i++) {
       if (Buffer.isBuffer(subject))
         buf[i] = subject.readUInt8(i)
-      else
-        buf.writeInt8(subject[i], i)
+      else {
+        if (subject[i] < 0)
+          buf[i] = subject[i] + 256
+        else
+          buf[i] = subject[i]
+      }
     }
   } else if (type === 'string') {
     buf.write(subject, 0, encoding)
diff --git a/test/basic.js b/test/basic.js
index 53994fd..a369c62 100644
--- a/test/basic.js
+++ b/test/basic.js
@@ -17,6 +17,14 @@ test('new buffer from array w/ negatives', function (t) {
   t.end()
 })
 
+test('new buffer from array with mixed signed input', function (t) {
+  t.equal(
+    new B([-255, 255, -128, 128, 512, -512, 511, -511]).toString('hex'),
+    '01ff80800000ff01'
+  )
+  t.end()
+})
+
 test('new buffer from string', function (t) {
   t.equal(
     new B('hey', 'utf8').toString(),
-- 
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