From 72081fd95edf5651394878aaddbb93620a98f276 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org>
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2021 07:31:12 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] vms.c: Save '&' instrs by casting to U8

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

diff --git a/vms/vms.c b/vms/vms.c
index abdbe11bfec4..6c9fbc8ac0d1 100644
--- a/vms/vms.c
+++ b/vms/vms.c
@@ -601,8 +601,8 @@ copy_expand_vms_filename_escape(char *outspec, const char *inspec, int *output_c
             if (scnt == 4) {
                 unsigned int c1, c2;
                 scnt = sscanf(inspec, "%2x%2x", &c1, &c2);
-                outspec[0] = c1 & 0xff;
-                outspec[1] = c2 & 0xff;
+                outspec[0] = (U8) c1;
+                outspec[1] = (U8) c2;
                 if (scnt > 1) {
                     (*output_cnt) += 2;
                     count += 4;