http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8081
Richard Guenther <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keywords|ice-on-valid-code |accepts-invalid, | |ice-on-invalid-code Component|middle-end |c Summary|ICE with variably sized |ICE with variably sized |types and nested functions |types returned from nested | |functions Known to fail| |4.7.0 --- Comment #23 from Richard Guenther <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-01-11 15:57:03 UTC --- In PR21374 it was decided to reject the testcase which makes this a C frontend issue. Testcase that still ICEs on the trunk even when optimizing: int main (int argc, char **argv) { int size = 10; typedef struct { char val[size]; } block; block b; block __attribute__((noinline)) retframe_block () { return *(block *) &b; } b=retframe_block (); return 0; } as alternative to rejecting this case we can lower returning variable-size types during un-nesting to explicit passing of a return slot and using memcpy, making the nested function return nothing.