Can’t Mod Zero?

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The C++ Standard(2003) says in §5.6/4,

[…] If the second operand of / or % is zero the behavior is undefined; […]

That is, following expressions invoke undefined-behavior(UB):

X / 0; //UB
X % 0; //UB

Note also that -5 % 2 is NOT equal to -(5 % 2) (as Petar seems to suggest in his comment to his answer). It’s implementation-defined. The spec says (§5.6/4),

[…] If both operands are nonnegative then the remainder is nonnegative; if not, the sign of the remainder is implementation-defined.

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