From: Josh Micich <josh@apache.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:47:51 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: sort to int conversion sign extension fix
X-Git-Tag: REL_3_0_3_BETA1~76
X-Git-Url: https://source.dussan.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=edd0857f663db14767d0d6579050b11cfd83bc71;p=poi.git

sort to int conversion sign extension fix

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/trunk@639918 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/poi/hssf/usermodel/HSSFRow.java b/src/java/org/apache/poi/hssf/usermodel/HSSFRow.java
index 66f79ffd8a..75452dd945 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/poi/hssf/usermodel/HSSFRow.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/poi/hssf/usermodel/HSSFRow.java
@@ -296,9 +296,9 @@ public final class HSSFRow implements Comparable {
      * @param cellnum  0 based column number
      * @return HSSFCell representing that column or null if undefined.
      */
-    public HSSFCell getCell(short cellnum)
-    {
-   		return getCell((int)cellnum);
+    public HSSFCell getCell(short cellnum) {
+        int ushortCellNum = cellnum & 0x0000FFFF; // avoid sign extension
+        return getCell(ushortCellNum);
     }
     /**
      * Get the hssfcell representing a given column (logical cell)