This was noticed by building a cross compiler from i386 to x86_64. gcc 4.2.1 will miscompile insn-output.c, the prologue_save_insn emitter. Can be extracted to the attached runtime testcase. The loop exit condition is miscompiled by ivopts with simply -O2. Before ivopts we have:
i_28 = i_48 - 1; D.1652_15 = (long long int) i_28; D.1654_18 = *D.1653_45; D.1655_19 = D.1654_18->u.hwint[0]; if (D.1652_15 >= D.1655_19) goto <L19>; else goto <L11>; i.e. it compares with i_48-1, which is the loop iterator. ivopts transforms this into: i_28 = i_48 - 1; D.1858_83 = i_4 - 1; D.1859_84 = (long long unsigned int) D.1858_83; D.1860_85 = ivtmp.163_71 * 16; D.1861_86 = D.1859_84 + D.1860_85; D.1652_87 = (long long int) D.1861_86; D.1652_15 = D.1652_87; D.1654_18 = *D.1653_45; D.1655_19 = D.1654_18->u.hwint[0]; ivtmp.163_72 = ivtmp.163_71 - 16; if (D.1652_15 >= D.1655_19) goto <L19>; else goto <L11>; i_4-1 is the base variable for the loop iterator. ivopts tries to express the D.1652_15 in terms of that base and the new ivtmp.163. Unfortunately that ivtmp is multiplied by 16, and also has a stepsize of 16 (the multiplication by 16 actually is wrong even if the stepsize would be 16 as that then would multiply by 256 for the use in the D.1860_85 expression). -- Summary: ivopts miscompiles insn-output.c Product: gcc Version: 4.2.1 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: middle-end AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: matz at gcc dot gnu dot org GCC host triplet: i686-linux http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33714