http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49772
--- Comment #12 from Richard Guenther <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-12-08 11:39:21 UTC --- It's a complete mystery to me how this cgraph node cloning and edge code works. We create the inline clone for a completely different edge (that _is_ decided to be inlined) than the one we later fail on (that one is _not_ marked inline and does _not_ have an inline clone callee). Thus, we shouldn't arrive at this situation at all. Instead we seem to fail to inline a call that we should inline (and decided to inline) because of: /* Expand calls to inline functions in the body of FN. */ unsigned int optimize_inline_calls (tree fn) { ... /* There is no point in performing inlining if errors have already occurred -- and we might crash if we try to inline invalid code. */ if (seen_error ()) return 0; which leaves us with such state. So this is yet another case of overeager fail to complete our task. I suppose we can remove that late fail now that we bail out way earlier at proper IPA "scope". The ICE is fixed with removing the above out.