SF bug #444510: int() should guarantee truncation.

It's guaranteed now, assuming the platform modf() works correctly.

Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex

@@ -338,9 +338,7 @@ module from which it is called).
   \exception{TypeError} is raised.
   Otherwise, the argument may be a plain or
   long integer or a floating point number.  Conversion of floating
-  point numbers to integers is defined by the C semantics; normally
+  point numbers to integers truncates (towards zero).
-  the conversion truncates towards zero.\footnote{This is ugly --- the
-  language definition should require truncation towards zero.}
 \end{funcdesc}
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{intern}{string}

Lib/test/test_b1.py

@@ -366,6 +366,19 @@ except ValueError:
     pass
 else:
     raise TestFailed, "int(%s)" % `s[1:]` + " should raise ValueError"
+try:
+    int(1e100)
+except OverflowError:
+    pass
+else:
+    raise TestFailed("int(1e100) expected OverflowError")
+try:
+    int(-1e100)
+except OverflowError:
+    pass
+else:
+    raise TestFailed("int(-1e100) expected OverflowError")
+
 
 # SF bug 434186:  0x80000000/2 != 0x80000000>>1.
 # Worked by accident in Windows release build, but failed in debug build.

Objects/floatobject.c

@@ -606,14 +606,20 @@ static PyObject *
 float_int(PyObject *v)
 {
 	double x = PyFloat_AsDouble(v);
-	if (x < 0 ? (x = ceil(x)) < (double)LONG_MIN
+	double wholepart;	/* integral portion of x, rounded toward 0 */
-	          : (x = floor(x)) > (double)LONG_MAX) {
+	long aslong;		/* (long)wholepart */
-		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_OverflowError,
+
-				"float too large to convert");
+	(void)modf(x, &wholepart);
+	/* doubles may have more bits than longs, or vice versa; and casting
+	   to long may yield gibberish in either case.  What really matters
+	   is whether converting back to double again reproduces what we
+	   started with. */
+	aslong = (long)wholepart;
+	if ((double)aslong == wholepart)
+		return PyInt_FromLong(aslong);
+	PyErr_SetString(PyExc_OverflowError, "float too large to convert");
 	return NULL;
 }
-	return PyInt_FromLong((long)x);
-}
 
 static PyObject *
 float_long(PyObject *v)