Saul Shanabrook <s.shanabr...@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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