Mark Dickinson added the comment:

> It seems to just copy the sign bit no matter what x and y are.

Yep, that's exactly what happens.  The sign bit from y just gets blindly 
transferred to x, with no regard to any meaning of x or y.  So it works exactly 
the same way for zeros, NaNs, infinities, or whatever.

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