diff --git a/src/math/i386/remainder.c b/src/math/i386/remainder.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c083df904ce406b7e382a8e16726c764a4dab4de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/math/i386/remainder.c
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#include <math.h>
+
+double remainder(double x, double y)
+{
+	unsigned short fpsr;
+	// fprem1 does not introduce excess precision into x
+	do __asm__ ("fprem1; fnstsw %%ax" : "+t"(x), "=a"(fpsr) : "u"(y));
+	while (fpsr & 0x400);
+	return x;
+}
+
+weak_alias(remainder, drem);
diff --git a/src/math/i386/remainder.s b/src/math/i386/remainder.s
deleted file mode 100644
index ab1da95dd02fd8060b29297fd0930fe721a5bf5d..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/src/math/i386/remainder.s
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-.global remainder
-.type remainder,@function
-remainder:
-.weak drem
-.type drem,@function
-drem:
-	fldl 12(%esp)
-	fldl 4(%esp)
-1:	fprem1
-	fnstsw %ax
-	sahf
-	jp 1b
-	fstp %st(1)
-	ret
diff --git a/src/math/i386/remainderf.c b/src/math/i386/remainderf.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..280207d26db756ce60152b7050047666655eb732
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/math/i386/remainderf.c
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#include <math.h>
+
+float remainderf(float x, float y)
+{
+	unsigned short fpsr;
+	// fprem1 does not introduce excess precision into x
+	do __asm__ ("fprem1; fnstsw %%ax" : "+t"(x), "=a"(fpsr) : "u"(y));
+	while (fpsr & 0x400);
+	return x;
+}
+
+weak_alias(remainderf, dremf);
diff --git a/src/math/i386/remainderf.s b/src/math/i386/remainderf.s
deleted file mode 100644
index 6a7378a3401755402859220b211d46fc26193c8a..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/src/math/i386/remainderf.s
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-.global remainderf
-.type remainderf,@function
-remainderf:
-.weak dremf
-.type dremf,@function
-dremf:
-	flds 8(%esp)
-	flds 4(%esp)
-1:	fprem1
-	fnstsw %ax
-	sahf
-	jp 1b
-	fstp %st(1)
-	ret
diff --git a/src/math/i386/remainderl.c b/src/math/i386/remainderl.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8cf75071ede303a306e3feb0c9e26587ffe3400a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/math/i386/remainderl.c
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#include <math.h>
+
+long double remainderl(long double x, long double y)
+{
+	unsigned short fpsr;
+	do __asm__ ("fprem1; fnstsw %%ax" : "+t"(x), "=a"(fpsr) : "u"(y));
+	while (fpsr & 0x400);
+	return x;
+}
diff --git a/src/math/i386/remainderl.s b/src/math/i386/remainderl.s
deleted file mode 100644
index b41518ede9ee50c8899e9e9a72a2ceca08222fb0..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/src/math/i386/remainderl.s
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-.global remainderl
-.type remainderl,@function
-remainderl:
-	fldt 16(%esp)
-	fldt 4(%esp)
-1:	fprem1
-	fnstsw %ax
-	sahf
-	jp 1b
-	fstp %st(1)
-	ret
diff --git a/src/math/x86_64/remainderl.c b/src/math/x86_64/remainderl.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8cf75071ede303a306e3feb0c9e26587ffe3400a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/math/x86_64/remainderl.c
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#include <math.h>
+
+long double remainderl(long double x, long double y)
+{
+	unsigned short fpsr;
+	do __asm__ ("fprem1; fnstsw %%ax" : "+t"(x), "=a"(fpsr) : "u"(y));
+	while (fpsr & 0x400);
+	return x;
+}
diff --git a/src/math/x86_64/remainderl.s b/src/math/x86_64/remainderl.s
deleted file mode 100644
index cb3857b48630f5f295ef9980a0243fe22623876b..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/src/math/x86_64/remainderl.s
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-.global remainderl
-.type remainderl,@function
-remainderl:
-	fldt 24(%rsp)
-	fldt 8(%rsp)
-1:	fprem1
-	fnstsw %ax
-	testb $4,%ah
-	jnz 1b
-	fstp %st(1)
-	ret