diff --git a/cpukit/ChangeLog b/cpukit/ChangeLog
index c397bd6280..63cd66e8e5 100644
--- a/cpukit/ChangeLog
+++ b/cpukit/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2005-08-12	Chris Johns <chrisj@rtems.org>
+
+	PR 808/rtems_misc
+	* libcsupport/src/printk.c: Fix bug where specifying field width
+	crashed on pc386 BSP.
+
 2005-08-06  Ralf Corsepius  <ralf.corsepius@rtems.org>
 
 	* libnetworking/nfs/bootp_subr.c: Don't include
diff --git a/cpukit/libcsupport/src/printk.c b/cpukit/libcsupport/src/printk.c
index 2db31f0bd9..4ce64153b9 100644
--- a/cpukit/libcsupport/src/printk.c
+++ b/cpukit/libcsupport/src/printk.c
@@ -53,10 +53,8 @@ printNum(long unsigned int num, int base, int sign, int maxwidth, int lead)
   }
   toPrint[count++] = num;
 
-  if (maxwidth) {
-    for (n=maxwidth-count ; n ; n-- )
-      BSP_output_char(lead);
-  }
+  for (n=maxwidth ; n > count; n-- )
+    BSP_output_char(lead);
 
   for (n = 0; n < count; n++){
     BSP_output_char("0123456789ABCDEF"[(int)(toPrint[count-(n+1)])]);