From d1e86ed4451ab22797f5383166bdb438e469a701 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: William Kendrick <wkendrick@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 18:22:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Casting fix seems to be preventing crashing.

---
 src/fonts.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/fonts.c b/src/fonts.c
index 0231ffa34..25fd83ff4 100644
--- a/src/fonts.c
+++ b/src/fonts.c
@@ -631,8 +631,8 @@ void receive_some_font_info(SDL_Surface * screen)
 
   show_progress_bar(screen);
   walk = buf;
-  num_font_families = *walk++;
-  num_font_families += *walk++ << 8u;
+  num_font_families = *(unsigned char *)walk++;
+  num_font_families += *(unsigned char *)walk++ << 8u;
 #ifdef DEBUG
   printf("Got %u bytes with %u families.\n", buf_fill, num_font_families);
 #endif