http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48133
--- Comment #7 from Uros Bizjak <ubizjak at gmail dot com> 2012-02-27 20:50:46 UTC --- I have done a bit of debugging here. The problem starts in peel_loop_completely, loop-unroll.c. Before remove_path (ein), we have: loop_0 (header = 0, latch = 1, niter = ) { bb_2 (preds = {bb_0 }, succs = {bb_3 }) bb_9 (preds = {bb_8 }, succs = {bb_1 }) loop_1 (header = 3, latch = 10, niter = ) { bb_3 (preds = {bb_2 bb_10 }, succs = {bb_4 }) bb_10 (preds = {bb_5 }, succs = {bb_3 }) loop_2 (header = 4, latch = 11, niter = ) { bb_4 (preds = {bb_11 bb_3 }, succs = {bb_7 bb_5 }) bb_5 (preds = {bb_4 }, succs = {bb_6 bb_10 }) bb_6 (preds = {bb_7 bb_5 }, succs = {bb_7 }) bb_7 (preds = {bb_4 bb_6 }, succs = {bb_6 bb_8 }) bb_8 (preds = {bb_7 }, succs = {bb_11 bb_9 }) bb_11 (preds = {bb_8 }, succs = {bb_4 }) } } } We cancel loop2 completely and path ( 8 -> 11), and we get: loop_0 (header = 0, latch = 1, niter = ) { bb_2 (preds = {bb_0 }, succs = {bb_3 }) bb_8 (preds = {bb_7 }, succs = {bb_9 }) bb_9 (preds = {bb_8 }, succs = {bb_1 }) loop_1 (header = 3, latch = 10, niter = ) { bb_3 (preds = {bb_2 bb_10 }, succs = {bb_4 }) bb_4 (preds = {bb_3 }, succs = {bb_7 bb_5 }) bb_5 (preds = {bb_4 }, succs = {bb_6 bb_10 }) bb_10 (preds = {bb_5 }, succs = {bb_3 }) bb_6 (preds = {bb_7 bb_5 }, succs = {bb_7 }) bb_7 (preds = {bb_4 bb_6 }, succs = {bb_6 bb_8 }) } } Analysing loop_1 through get_loop_body -> get_loop_body_with_size -> dfs_enumerate_from (..., 1 /* reverse */, ...), we visit only BBs 3, 10, 5 and 4, leaving out BBs 6 and 7. This crashes compilation later in get_loop_body: gcc_assert (tv == loop->num_nodes); since tv == 4 and loop->num_nodes == 6.