Allow value to TIMES to be negative while optimization is in progress

Change the parser to only issue the "TIMES value %d is negative"
error message if all optimization passes have completed.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/parser.c b/parser.c
index 7e5c9a32..6893c981 100644
--- a/parser.c
+++ b/parser.c
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ restart_parse:
                 result->times = 1L;
             } else {
                 result->times = value->value;
-                if (value->value < 0) {
+                if (value->value < 0 && pass0 == 2) {
                     error(ERR_NONFATAL, "TIMES value %d is negative",
                           value->value);
                     result->times = 0;