diffhelpers: backport
9e40bc4c1bde from C implementation
9e40bc4c1bde just says "harden testhunk." I don't think this would be
the case, but it makes some sense to avoid negative index.
#require docutils gettext
Error: the current ro localization has some rst defects exposed by
moving pager to core. These two warnings about references are expected
until the localization is corrected.
$ $TESTDIR/check-gendoc ro
checking for parse errors
gendoc.txt:58: (WARNING/2) Inline interpreted text or phrase reference start-string without end-string.
gendoc.txt:58: (WARNING/2) Inline interpreted text or phrase reference start-string without end-string.