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  r87032 | mark.dickinson | 2010-12-04 12:25:30 +0000 (Sat, 04 Dec 2010) | 3 lines

  Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as
  float.__divmod__ with respect to signed zeros.
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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Objects/floatobject.c b/Objects/floatobject.c
index 865c960..6a2af74 100644
--- a/Objects/floatobject.c
+++ b/Objects/floatobject.c
@@ -600,10 +600,20 @@ float_rem(PyObject *v, PyObject *w)
 #endif
     PyFPE_START_PROTECT("modulo", return 0)
     mod = fmod(vx, wx);
-    /* note: checking mod*wx < 0 is incorrect -- underflows to
-       0 if wx < sqrt(smallest nonzero double) */
-    if (mod && ((wx < 0) != (mod < 0))) {
-        mod += wx;
+    if (mod) {
+        /* ensure the remainder has the same sign as the denominator */
+        if ((wx < 0) != (mod < 0)) {
+            mod += wx;
+        }
+    }
+    else {
+        /* the remainder is zero, and in the presence of signed zeroes
+           fmod returns different results across platforms; ensure
+           it has the same sign as the denominator; we'd like to do
+           "mod = wx * 0.0", but that may get optimized away */
+        mod *= mod;  /* hide "mod = +0" from optimizer */
+        if (wx < 0.0)
+            mod = -mod;
     }
     PyFPE_END_PROTECT(mod)
     return PyFloat_FromDouble(mod);