diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f6dbc3ee..63ce0f6e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 	home directories, could be erroneously treated as users' home
 	directories (e.g. "~d/" would be treated as "~daemon/"). (DLR,
 	found by Justin Fletcher)
+	* files.c (input_tab): Don't bother checking if num_matches is
+	less than zero, as it's a size_t and hence unsigned. (DLR)
 
 2007-04-16  David Lawrence Ramsey  <pooka109@gmail.com>
 
diff --git a/src/files.c b/src/files.c
index bde29e11..d4c5995e 100644
--- a/src/files.c
+++ b/src/files.c
@@ -2254,7 +2254,7 @@ char *input_tab(char *buf, bool allow_files, size_t *place, bool
 	matches = cwd_tab_completion(buf, allow_files, &num_matches,
 		*place);
 
-    if (num_matches <= 0)
+    if (num_matches == 0)
 	beep();
     else {
 	size_t match, common_len = 0;