C# Metadata Int32 MinValue is wrong

[vsfeedback]

public const Int32 MinValue = --2147483648;

-- ???? It will not compile ...

Visual Studio 15.8.2 ...

This issue has been moved from https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/328206/c-metadata-int32-minvalue-is-wrong.html
VSTS ticketId: 677394
These are the original issue comments:

BJ Myers on 9/11/2018, 04:25 PM (25 min ago): Reproduced in Visual Studio 15.8.4.
These are the original issue solutions:
(no solutions)

[AdamSpeight2008]

You are tryinging to decrement a constant value.
If the decrement operator didn't exist then the expression --2147783648 is equivalent to -(-2147783648) which should the value 2147783648 exceeds the Int32.MaxValue by 1.
If is unchecked i think it would return -1.

@sharwell

[sharwell]

@AdamSpeight2008 Starting in 15.8, if you press F12 to navigate to Metadata as Source for System.Int32, you'll see MinValue defined with double-negation.

[CyrusNajmabadi]

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.

[dmitry-lipetsk]

Visual Studio 2017 (15.9.11)

Same problem with Int64.MinValue

#region Assembly mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089
// C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.7.2\mscorlib.dll
#endregion

        //
        // Summary:
        //     Represents the smallest possible value of an Int64. This field is constant.
        public const Int64 MinValue = --9223372036854775808;

The problem with Int32.MinValue exists also :)

        //
        // Summary:
        //     Represents the smallest possible value of System.Int32. This field is constant.
        public const Int32 MinValue = --2147483648;

[svick]

@dmitry-lipetsk The milestone for this issue is 16.0. I believe that means you can't expect for it to be fixed in VS 2017, you'll have to upgrade to VS 2019. Have you tried that?

[dmitry-lipetsk]

@svick

Hm, you right :)

VS2019 shows Int64.MinValue correctly

#region сборка mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089
// C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.7.2\mscorlib.dll
#endregion

using System.Globalization;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Runtime.Versioning;
using System.Security;

namespace System
{
    //
    // Сводка:
    //     Представляет 64-разрядное целое число со знаком.
    [ComVisible(true)]
    public struct Int64 : IComparable, IFormattable, IConvertible, IComparable<Int64>, IEquatable<Int64>
    {
        //
        // Сводка:
        //     Представляет наибольшее возможное значение типа Int64. Это поле является константой.
        public const Int64 MaxValue = 9223372036854775807;
        //
        // Сводка:
        //     Представляет наименьшее возможное значение типа Int64. Это поле является константой.
        public const Int64 MinValue = -9223372036854775808;