http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53227
--- Comment #3 from Uros Bizjak <ubizjak at gmail dot com> 2012-05-04 16:22:57 UTC --- (In reply to comment #2) > Why do you consider this a reload/RA problem? Code before ira looks like: Indeed. The bar case works OK since access to memory is already expanded in a split way: (insn 5 4 6 3 (set (reg:SI 65) (mem/c:SI (symbol_ref:SI ("x") [flags 0x40] <var_decl 0x7f56b41c2140 x>) [2 x+0 S4 A64])) movbe-2.c:15 -1 (nil)) (insn 6 5 7 3 (set (reg:SI 64) (bswap:SI (reg:SI 65))) movbe-2.c:15 -1 (nil)) (insn 7 6 8 3 (set (reg:SI 67) (mem/c:SI (const:SI (plus:SI (symbol_ref:SI ("x") [flags 0x40] <var_decl 0x7f56b41c2140 x>) (const_int 4 [0x4]))) [2 x+4 S4 A32])) movbe-2.c:15 -1 (nil)) (insn 8 7 9 3 (set (reg:SI 66) (bswap:SI (reg:SI 67))) movbe-2.c:15 -1 (nil)) However, reload should notice that memory could be propagated into bswap. I'm not sure this would fix the problem.