diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index b4e0b2549af..04c78c0dc21 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
 Core and builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
+  optimizations.  Changed to be more standard-conforming.
+
 - Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
 
 
@@ -136,7 +139,7 @@ Library
 - The __repr__ method of a NULL ctypes.py_object() no longer raises
   an exception.
 
-- uuid.UUID now has a bytes_le attribute. This returns the UUID in 
+- uuid.UUID now has a bytes_le attribute. This returns the UUID in
   little-endian byte order for Windows. In addition, uuid.py gained some
   workarounds for clocks with low resolution, to stop the code yielding
   duplicate UUIDs.
@@ -295,7 +298,7 @@ Library
 - Bug #1002398: The documentation for os.path.sameopenfile now correctly
   refers to file descriptors, not file objects.
 
-- The renaming of the xml package to xmlcore, and the import hackery done 
+- The renaming of the xml package to xmlcore, and the import hackery done
   to make it appear at both names, has been removed.  Bug #1511497,
   #1513611, and probably others.
 
diff --git a/Objects/intobject.c b/Objects/intobject.c
index c7137df40ba..cbca49524ee 100644
--- a/Objects/intobject.c
+++ b/Objects/intobject.c
@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ i_divmod(register long x, register long y,
 		return DIVMOD_ERROR;
 	}
 	/* (-sys.maxint-1)/-1 is the only overflow case. */
-	if (y == -1 && x < 0 && x == -x)
+	if (y == -1 && x == LONG_MIN)
 		return DIVMOD_OVERFLOW;
 	xdivy = x / y;
 	xmody = x - xdivy * y;