http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52395
--- Comment #6 from Richard Guenther <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-02-27 10:25:49 UTC --- If all was well ('base' is literally appearing in the IL before SRA / IPA-SRA) we could do Index: gcc/tree-sra.c =================================================================== --- gcc/tree-sra.c (revision 184591) +++ gcc/tree-sra.c (working copy) @@ -1526,10 +1526,12 @@ build_ref_for_offset (location_t loc, tr we can extract more optimistic alignment information by looking at the access mode. That would constrain the alignment of base + base_offset which we would need to - adjust according to offset. - ??? But it is not at all clear that prev_base is an access - that was in the IL that way, so be conservative for now. */ + adjust according to offset. */ align = get_pointer_alignment_1 (base, &misalign); + if (misalign == 0 + && (TREE_CODE (prev_base) == MEM_REF + || TREE_CODE (prev_base) == TARGET_MEM_REF)) + align = MAX (align, TYPE_ALIGN (TREE_TYPE (prev_base))); misalign += (double_int_sext (tree_to_double_int (off), TYPE_PRECISION (TREE_TYPE (off))).low * BITS_PER_UNIT); to mimic get_object_or_type_alignment. At least for the ipa-cp.c use I _do_ know there is no such access.