-sizeof()

[Jan Ringoš]

Hello, I am not a C++ guru, but this thing looks weird.
I have following two codes:

__int64 a = -4;
printf ("%016I64x\n", a); // prints fffffffffffffffc

__int64 b = -sizeof(int);
printf ("%016I64x\n", b); // prints 00000000fffffffc

Correct me if I am wrong, but shouldn't they return the same value (the first 
one)??
I thought that sizeof is evaluated before converting to __int64 (long long)...

... MinGW 3.4.2, Win XP 32-bit ...

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