[Issue 17633] New: Unary negation has the wrong type

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17633

          Issue ID: 17633
           Summary: Unary negation has the wrong type
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: All
               URL: http://dlang.org/
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P3
         Component: dlang.org
          Assignee: nobody at puremagic.com
          Reporter: eyal at weka.io

Unary negating a ubyte has type ubyte. This is a bug because it contradicts the
behavior of the same unary operator syntax in C:

enum ubyte x = 1;
void assert_minus_1(int y) { assert(y == -1); }
static assert(is(typeof(-x) == int), "Violating C's type rules");
unittest {
    assert_minus_1(-x); // -x is 255, it's zero-extended instead of
sign-extended!
}

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