The signedness of enum types depend on the compiler implementation.
Therefore the check for negative values may or may not be meaningful.
Fix by explicitly casting to a signed integer.
Since the values are also checked earlier against event_names
table, this is an internal error. Change the 'if' to 'assert'.
This also avoids a warning with GCC flag -Wtype-limits.
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>