This is a bug report about quality of implementation issues with the implementation of constant and copy propagation for RTL, which lives in gcse.c. There is a companion bug 33828 for issues with code hoisting.
-- Summary: Issues with constant/copy propagation implementation in gcse.c Product: gcc Version: 4.3.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Keywords: missed-optimization, compile-time-hog Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: rtl-optimization AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: steven at gcc dot gnu dot org http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34503