Why does the MinValue for an Int32 struct in C# have two minus signs infront of it?

Question

When I right-click int in my code and select \"Go To Definition,\" Visual Studio opens a file titled \"Int32 [from metadata]\". This file includes the followin

Answer 1

vcsjones pointed to the newly created bug report and this post appeared there:

CyrusNajmabadi commented

This is probably a bug i introduced when i fixed up how literals were converted to syntax nodes. There was probably some special casing here that added a - sign. And once the underlying helper was fixed we got double negation.