diff --git a/plugins/astyle/astyle_stringiterator.cpp b/plugins/astyle/astyle_stringiterator.cpp
index 27326cf7db..da802b0290 100644
--- a/plugins/astyle/astyle_stringiterator.cpp
+++ b/plugins/astyle/astyle_stringiterator.cpp
@@ -1,80 +1,80 @@
 /* This file is part of KDevelop
 *  Copyright (C) 2008 Cédric Pasteur <cedric.pasteur@free.fr>
    Copyright (C) 2001 Matthias Hölzer-Klüpfel <mhk@caldera.de>
 
 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
 version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 
 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 General Public License for more details.
 
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with this program; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
 the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
 Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
 
 */
 #include "astyle_stringiterator.h"
 
 #include <string>
 
 AStyleStringIterator::AStyleStringIterator(const QString &text)
     : ASSourceIterator()
     , m_content(text)
     , m_is(&m_content, QIODevice::ReadOnly)
     , m_peekStart(-1)
 {
 }
 
 
 AStyleStringIterator::~AStyleStringIterator()
 {
 }
 
 astyle::streamoff AStyleStringIterator::tellg()
 {
   return m_is.pos();
 }
 
 int AStyleStringIterator::getStreamLength() const
 {
   return m_content.size();
 }
 
 bool AStyleStringIterator::hasMoreLines() const
 {
   return !m_is.atEnd();
 }
 
 
 std::string AStyleStringIterator::nextLine(bool emptyLineWasDeleted)
 {
   Q_UNUSED(emptyLineWasDeleted)
   return m_is.readLine().toUtf8().data();
 }
 
 std::string AStyleStringIterator::peekNextLine()
 {
     if (m_peekStart == -1) {
         m_peekStart = m_is.pos();
     }
     return m_is.readLine().toUtf8().data();
 }
 
 void AStyleStringIterator::peekReset()
 {
     if(m_peekStart != -1)
         m_is.seek(m_peekStart);
     m_peekStart = -1; // invalid
 }
 
 astyle::streamoff AStyleStringIterator::getPeekStart() const
 {
-   return m_peekStart;
+   return m_peekStart == -1 ? 0 : m_peekStart;
 }