http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52876
--- Comment #8 from H.J. Lu <hjl.tools at gmail dot com> 2012-04-05 13:42:30 UTC --- The reason why GCC 4.6 works is it uses SImode for Pmode. On trunk, I got [hjl@gnu-6 pr52876]$ cat x.i long long li; long long testfunc(void* addr) __attribute__ ((noinline)); long long testfunc(void* addr) { li = (long long)(int)addr; // next line is important, if the address from pv // has been sign extended with leading ONEs li &= 0xffffffff; return li; } [hjl@gnu-6 pr52876]$ /export/build/gnu/gcc-x32/build-x86_64-linux/gcc/xgcc -B/export/build/gnu/gcc-x32/build-x86_64-linux/gcc/ -S -o x.s -mx32 -O x.i -maddress-mode=long [hjl@gnu-6 pr52876]$ cat x.s .file "x.i" .text .globl testfunc .type testfunc, @function testfunc: .LFB0: .cfi_startproc movslq %edi, %rax movq %rax, li(%rip) ret .cfi_endproc .LFE0: .size testfunc, .-testfunc .comm li,8,8 .ident "GCC: (GNU) 4.8.0 20120403 (experimental)" .section .note.GNU-stack,"",@progbits [hjl@gnu-6 pr52876]$ /export/build/gnu/gcc-x32/build-x86_64-linux/gcc/xgcc -B/export/build/gnu/gcc-x32/build-x86_64-linux/gcc/ -S -o x.s -mx32 -O x.i -maddress-mode=short [hjl@gnu-6 pr52876]$ cat x.s .file "x.i" .text .globl testfunc .type testfunc, @function testfunc: .LFB0: .cfi_startproc movq %rdi, %rax movq %rdi, li(%rip) ret .cfi_endproc .LFE0: .size testfunc, .-testfunc .comm li,8,8 .ident "GCC: (GNU) 4.8.0 20120403 (experimental)" .section .note.GNU-stack,"",@progbits [hjl@gnu-6 pr52876]$ -maddress-mode=long generates the wrong code. We have a POINTERS_EXTEND_UNSIGNED bug.