http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48571
--- Comment #2 from Richard Guenther <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-04-12 13:11:56 UTC --- Re-constructing array-refs (and thus an index space) is invalid. Which means the C frontend should better change its behavior and not lower all array accesses to pointer arithmetic and dereferences.