That explanation is bogus anyway. It's a unary operator applied to a positive integer literal. No multiplication involved. In this case the range issue can be a

That explanation is bogus anyway. It's a unary operator applied to a positive integer literal. No multiplication involved. In this case the range issue can be addressed in C by using the "L" suffix to upgrade the literal to 32-bit and let the compiler truncate it back to 16-bit.