Does anybody know why calling `toByte()` on `-128`...

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[nulldev]

Does anybody know why calling toByte() on -128 results in 128?

Java bytes can only hold -128 to 127 anyways!

Example code:

fun main(args: Array<String>) {
    println(-128.toByte())
    println(-127.toByte())
}

Result:

128
-127

Casting -128 to byte in Java returns -128 as expected.

[uli]

Interesting enough, factoring out the number to a local val fixes the issue:

fun main(args: Array<String>) {
    val v1 = -128
 	println(v1.toByte())
    val v2 = -127
 	println(v2.toByte())
}