There is a bug in Wireshark when a dissector has an hf_ variable of type 
FT_INT64 and the requested length of the field is < 8 bytes.  There is no 
accounting for the sign bit (which has led dissectors to come up with their own 
solutions).  The attached patch attempts to address it.  The questions I have is

1. Are these the right places to modify?  I thought about pint.h, but I didn't 
know how to get the "sign check" in there.
2. Is this cross-platform friendly? (I realize it may not be the most optimized 
solution)
3. Did I go far enough in addressing the "common" uses?  Is FT_INT40, etc 
necessary?

Any other thoughts?

Attachment: large_signed_ints.patch
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