[issue46724] Odd Bytecode Generation in 3.10

[Saul Shanabrook]

Saul Shanabrook <s.shanabrook at gmail.com> added the comment:

Ah, I see that to represent a negative 4 byte signed integer as an arg, we actually do need the 4 instructions, since each is a byte, to get the most significant bit to a 1?

I wasn't able to find anything anywhere which says if the bytecode should or should not contain negative opargs, so I am not sure if this is a bug or intended behavior, to emit the three EXTENDED_ARGs in order to represent

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