Commit 9a13ae7cd for imagemagick.org

commit 9a13ae7cdcd72d867a505cb1bc9dcd576ad26022
Author: Dirk Lemstra <dirk@lemstra.org>
Date:   Sat Nov 7 14:10:29 2026 +0100

    Switch to char when writing the padding value.

diff --git a/MagickCore/blob-private.h b/MagickCore/blob-private.h
index b3c6cd64e..0c7f4e38d 100644
--- a/MagickCore/blob-private.h
+++ b/MagickCore/blob-private.h
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ extern MagickExport ssize_t
   WriteBlobMSBLong(Image *,const unsigned int),
   WriteBlobMSBShort(Image *,const unsigned short),
   WriteBlobMSBSignedShort(Image *,const signed short),
-  WriteBlobPadding(Image *,const size_t,const unsigned char),
+  WriteBlobPadding(Image *,const size_t,const char),
   WriteBlobString(Image *,const char *);

 extern MagickExport unsigned int
diff --git a/MagickCore/blob.c b/MagickCore/blob.c
index 948cd938e..19a26b34b 100644
--- a/MagickCore/blob.c
+++ b/MagickCore/blob.c
@@ -6213,7 +6213,7 @@ MagickExport ssize_t WriteBlobByte(Image *image,const unsigned char value)
 %  The format of the WriteBlobPadding method is:
 %
 %      ssize_t WriteBlobPadding(Image *image,const size_t length,
-%        const unsigned char value)
+%        const char value)
 %
 %  A description of each parameter follows.
 %
@@ -6225,7 +6225,7 @@ MagickExport ssize_t WriteBlobByte(Image *image,const unsigned char value)
 %
 */
 MagickExport ssize_t WriteBlobPadding(Image *image,const size_t length,
-  const unsigned char value)
+  const char value)
 {
   size_t
     extent;