------- Comment #35 from schwab at suse dot de 2005-11-16 20:42 ------- __imag__ a = b looks like a simple assignment, thus it should act like a simple assignment. You can pack a struct { short a,b; } in a single register, but that should not result in a warning when assigning a part of it, even though it would have to be implemented as RMW on many targets.
-- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23497