PVS-Studio warning V547 for Virtualdub

typedef unsigned short wint_t;

wint_t lexgetescape() {
  wint_t c = lexgetc();
  if (c < 0)
    fatal("Newline found in escape sequence");
  ...
}

This suspicious code was found in Virtualdub project by PVS-Studio static code analyzer.
Warning message is:
V547 Expression 'c < 0' is always false. Unsigned type value is never < 0. Ami lexer.cpp 279

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