diff --git a/fixtures/sbpf/memcmp_not_matched.so b/fixtures/sbpf/memcmp_not_matched.so
index e2fb0b2..8b6eee3 100755
Binary files a/fixtures/sbpf/memcmp_not_matched.so and b/fixtures/sbpf/memcmp_not_matched.so differ
diff --git a/pkg/sealevel/sealevel_test.go b/pkg/sealevel/sealevel_test.go
index 51c8826..5370ec7 100644
--- a/pkg/sealevel/sealevel_test.go
+++ b/pkg/sealevel/sealevel_test.go
@@ -313,10 +313,10 @@ func TestInterpreter_Memcmp_Matches(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 // The TestInterpreter_Memcmp_Does_Not_Match function tests that the memcmp
-// syscall works as expected by comparing the string literals "abcdabcd1234"
-// and "BLAHabcd1234"
+// syscall works as expected by comparing the string literals "Bbcdabcd1234"
+// and "aLAHabcd1234"
 // The expected result is that the two strings do not match and the difference
-// between the first non-matching characters (0x61 - 0x42 = 0x1f) is returned,
+// between the first non-matching characters (0x42 - 0x61 = -0x1f) is returned,
 // and the program checks these and returns messages accordingly.
 func TestInterpreter_Memcmp_Does_Not_Match(t *testing.T) {
 	loader, err := loader.NewLoaderFromBytes(fixtures.Load(t, "sbpf", "memcmp_not_matched.so"))
diff --git a/pkg/sealevel/syscalls_mem.go b/pkg/sealevel/syscalls_mem.go
index 4450b4a..5afcaaf 100644
--- a/pkg/sealevel/syscalls_mem.go
+++ b/pkg/sealevel/syscalls_mem.go
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ func SyscallMemcmpImpl(vm sbpf.VM, addr1, addr2, n, resultAddr uint64, cuIn int)
 		b1 := slice1[count]
 		b2 := slice2[count]
 		if b1 != b2 {
-			cmpResult = int32(b1 - b2)
+			cmpResult = int32(b1) - int32(b2)
 			break
 		}
 	}