[GHC] #5683: bug in signum function

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#5683: bug in signum function
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    Reporter:  tristes_tigres    |       Owner:                  
        Type:  bug               |      Status:  new             
    Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  7.6.1           
   Component:  Prelude           |     Version:  7.0.3           
    Keywords:                    |          Os:  Unknown/Multiple
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Failure:  Other           
  Difficulty:  Unknown           |    Testcase:                  
   Blockedby:                    |    Blocking:                  
     Related:                    |  
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Changes (by igloo):

  * difficulty:  => Unknown
  * milestone:  => 7.6.1


Comment:

 Thanks for the report.

 I think we do need truncate et al to be able to return integral types,
 though: You need to combine them with the type conversion in order to
 describe what sort of type conversion you want (e.g. should 7.7 be
 converted to 7 or 8?).

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