From 6129ca56820c1d84615c75fdc2a3e68e0a1dc2f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kristoffer Carlsson <kristoffer.carlsson@chalmers.se>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 17:40:36 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] make write/unsafe_write on iobuffer return signed like
 other io

---
 base/iobuffer.jl |  2 +-
 test/iobuffer.jl | 14 +++++++-------
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/base/iobuffer.jl b/base/iobuffer.jl
index a624d791a2f64..0b2536ad57cda 100644
--- a/base/iobuffer.jl
+++ b/base/iobuffer.jl
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ end
 function unsafe_write(to::AbstractIOBuffer, p::Ptr{UInt8}, nb::UInt)
     ensureroom(to, nb)
     ptr = (to.append ? to.size+1 : to.ptr)
-    written = min(nb, length(to.data) - ptr + 1)
+    written = Int(min(nb, length(to.data) - ptr + 1))
     towrite = written
     d = to.data
     while towrite > 0
diff --git a/test/iobuffer.jl b/test/iobuffer.jl
index c04c805b5fbb1..752fdcb70ea7c 100644
--- a/test/iobuffer.jl
+++ b/test/iobuffer.jl
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ioslength(io::IOBuffer) = (io.seekable ? io.size : nb_available(io))
 let io = IOBuffer()
 @test eof(io)
 @test_throws EOFError read(io,UInt8)
-@test write(io,"abc") == 3
+@test write(io,"abc") === 3
 @test isreadable(io)
 @test iswritable(io)
 @test isopen(io)
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ truncate(io, 0)
 truncate(io, 10)
 @test position(io) == 0
 @test all(io.data .== 0)
-@test write(io,Int16[1,2,3,4,5,6]) == 12
+@test write(io,Int16[1,2,3,4,5,6]) === 12
 seek(io, 2)
 truncate(io, 10)
 @test ioslength(io) == 10
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ truncate(io, 0)
 @test write(io,"boston\ncambridge\n") > 0
 @test String(take!(io)) == "boston\ncambridge\n"
 @test String(take!(io)) == ""
-@test write(io, Complex{Float64}(0)) == 16
-@test write(io, Rational{Int64}(1//2)) == 16
+@test write(io, Complex{Float64}(0)) === 16
+@test write(io, Rational{Int64}(1//2)) === 16
 close(io)
 @test_throws ArgumentError write(io,UInt8[0])
 @test_throws ArgumentError seek(io,0)
@@ -115,11 +115,11 @@ write(io,[1,2,3])
 @test ioslength(io) == 75
 @test length(io.data) == 75
 skip(io,1)
-@test write(io,UInt8(104)) == 1
+@test write(io,UInt8(104)) === 1
 skip(io,3)
-@test write(io,b"apples") == 3
+@test write(io,b"apples") === 3
 skip(io,71)
-@test write(io,'y') == 1
+@test write(io,'y') === 1
 @test readstring(io) == "happy"
 @test eof(io)
 write(io,zeros(UInt8,73))

From 1f2411559fbed228e6ec6eeee548ae2d5ac4bf0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kristoffer Carlsson <kristoffer.carlsson@chalmers.se>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 12:59:15 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] correct doctest

---
 base/base64.jl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/base/base64.jl b/base/base64.jl
index 0b43427065de1..743f055ca9f11 100644
--- a/base/base64.jl
+++ b/base/base64.jl
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ julia> io = IOBuffer();
 julia> iob64_decode = Base64DecodePipe(io);
 
 julia> write(io, "SGVsbG8h")
-0x0000000000000008
+8
 
 julia> seekstart(io);
 

From afbe310e21fc0615e2976e3675964bd70ed370e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kristoffer Carlsson <kristoffer.carlsson@chalmers.se>
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2017 18:02:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] add NEWS [ci skip]

---
 NEWS.md | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 08ec77f31b9c4..0ec5525ed9f2b 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -209,6 +209,9 @@ This section lists changes that do not have deprecation warnings.
     [SpecialFunctions.jl package](https://github.com/JuliaMath/SpecialFunctions.jl)
     ([#20427]).
 
+  * `write` on an `IOBuffer` now returns a signed integer in order to be
+    consistent with other buffers ([#20609]).
+
 Library improvements
 --------------------