From d43c7d9caca02859542914401ec945744c026bf1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Procter <jprocter@issues.jalview.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2021 16:40:42 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fixes JAL-3840

---
 src/jalview/datamodel/ResidueCount.java |   10 +---------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/jalview/datamodel/ResidueCount.java b/src/jalview/datamodel/ResidueCount.java
index b21dd77..6b52166 100644
--- a/src/jalview/datamodel/ResidueCount.java
+++ b/src/jalview/datamodel/ResidueCount.java
@@ -301,15 +301,7 @@ public class ResidueCount
    */
   public int addGap()
   {
-    int newValue;
-    if (useIntCounts)
-    {
-      newValue = ++intCounts[GAP_COUNT];
-    }
-    else
-    {
-      newValue = ++counts[GAP_COUNT];
-    }
+    int newValue = increment(GAP_COUNT);
     return newValue;
   }
 
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