I finally got the time to update and merge Mark's and my trunk-math branch. The patch is collaborated work of Mark Dickinson and me. It was mostly done a few months ago. The patch fixes a lot of loose ends and edge cases related to operations with NaN, INF, very small values and complex math.

The patch also adds acosh, asinh, atanh, log1p and copysign to all platforms. Finally it fixes differences between platforms like different results or exceptions for edge cases. Have fun :)
diff --git a/Objects/complexobject.c b/Objects/complexobject.c
index 7f40ed6..6e0fbb2 100644
--- a/Objects/complexobject.c
+++ b/Objects/complexobject.c
@@ -187,6 +187,38 @@
 
 }
 
+double
+c_abs(Py_complex z)
+{
+	/* sets errno = ERANGE on overflow;  otherwise errno = 0 */
+	double result;
+
+	if (!Py_IS_FINITE(z.real) || !Py_IS_FINITE(z.imag)) {
+		/* C99 rules: if either the real or the imaginary part is an
+		   infinity, return infinity, even if the other part is a
+		   NaN. */
+		if (Py_IS_INFINITY(z.real)) {
+			result = fabs(z.real);
+			errno = 0;
+			return result;
+		}
+		if (Py_IS_INFINITY(z.imag)) {
+			result = fabs(z.imag);
+			errno = 0;
+			return result;
+		}
+		/* either the real or imaginary part is a NaN,
+		   and neither is infinite. Result should be NaN. */
+		return Py_NAN;
+	}
+	result = hypot(z.real, z.imag);
+	if (!Py_IS_FINITE(result))
+		errno = ERANGE;
+	else
+		errno = 0;
+	return result;
+}
+
 static PyObject *
 complex_subtype_from_c_complex(PyTypeObject *type, Py_complex cval)
 {
@@ -329,8 +361,7 @@
 		if (!Py_IS_FINITE(v->cval.imag)) {
 			if (Py_IS_NAN(v->cval.imag))
 				strncpy(buf, "nan*j", 6);
-			/* else if (copysign(1, v->cval.imag) == 1) */
-			else if (v->cval.imag > 0)
+			else if (copysign(1, v->cval.imag) == 1)
 				strncpy(buf, "inf*j", 6);
 			else
 				strncpy(buf, "-inf*j", 7);
@@ -492,6 +523,7 @@
 complex_div(PyComplexObject *v, PyComplexObject *w)
 {
 	Py_complex quot;
+
 	PyFPE_START_PROTECT("complex_div", return 0)
 	errno = 0;
 	quot = c_quot(v->cval,w->cval);
@@ -655,9 +687,16 @@
 complex_abs(PyComplexObject *v)
 {
 	double result;
+
 	PyFPE_START_PROTECT("complex_abs", return 0)
-	result = hypot(v->cval.real,v->cval.imag);
+	result = c_abs(v->cval);
 	PyFPE_END_PROTECT(result)
+
+	if (errno == ERANGE) {
+		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_OverflowError,
+				"absolute value too large");
+		return NULL;
+	}
 	return PyFloat_FromDouble(result);
 }
 
@@ -786,9 +825,29 @@
 	return Py_BuildValue("(D)", &v->cval);
 }
 
+#if 0
+static PyObject *
+complex_is_finite(PyObject *self)
+{
+	Py_complex c;
+	c = ((PyComplexObject *)self)->cval;
+	return PyBool_FromLong((long)(Py_IS_FINITE(c.real) &&
+				      Py_IS_FINITE(c.imag)));
+}
+
+PyDoc_STRVAR(complex_is_finite_doc,
+"complex.is_finite() -> bool\n"
+"\n"
+"Returns True if the real and the imaginary part is finite.");
+#endif
+
 static PyMethodDef complex_methods[] = {
 	{"conjugate",	(PyCFunction)complex_conjugate,	METH_NOARGS,
 	 complex_conjugate_doc},
+#if 0
+	{"is_finite",	(PyCFunction)complex_is_finite,	METH_NOARGS,
+	 complex_is_finite_doc},
+#endif
 	{"__getnewargs__",	(PyCFunction)complex_getnewargs,	METH_NOARGS},
 	{NULL,		NULL}		/* sentinel */
 };