https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97884
--- Comment #8 from Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> --- If you design your own programming language, you can define it whatever way you want, but for C and C++ it is well defined how the compiler must behave in these cases, that -2147483648 are two separate tokens, unary minus and an integral constant.