http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61034
--- Comment #9 from Richard Biener <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Richard Biener from comment #8) > (In reply to Marc Glisse from comment #7) > > (In reply to rguent...@suse.de from comment #6) > > > that's a conditional assignment AFAICS > > > > Ah, you are right of course. It shouldn't be conditional, but it will take a > > VRP pass to notice that. If I schedule another FRE right after VRP1, things > > optimize nicely, and after some cleanup by DOM+DSE, DCE2 can remove all > > malloc+free. However, if I don't add this extra FRE pass, we somehow don't > > manage. Note that in the PRE dump, with just your patch (no extra pass), I > > see: > > > > pretmp_92 = 1; > > _235 = pretmp_92; > > if (_235 == 0) > > > > and these conditions seem to be what prevents us from finishing the job. > > Yeah. Looks somewhat tricky, but I'll play with it. Meanwhile testing > a proper patch for the first issue. Ok, so we have after PRE <bb 39>: _240 = 2; _241 = 1; MEM[(struct O *)_73].count = _241; if (1 == 0) goto <bb 40>; else goto <bb 53>; <bb 53>: goto <bb 41>; <bb 40>: __builtin_free (_73); pretmp_48 = MEM[(struct O *)_73].count; <bb 41>: # prephitmp_35 = PHI <1(53), pretmp_48(40)> D.2328 ={v} {CLOBBER}; D.2328 ={v} {CLOBBER}; _242 = prephitmp_35; if (_242 == 1) goto <bb 42>; else goto <bb 54>; and only CFG-cleanup will simplify the PHI node by removing the unreachable path and thus we end up with _242 = 1; if (_242 == 1) of course the above shows another case where free() bogusly is thought to clobber the load from count. But in general as SCCVN/PRE is not predicate aware (or optimistically treating edges as not executed) the issue cannot always be avoided. Applying copy-propagation during elimination would make CFG-cleanup do the job though.