https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65067
--- Comment #6 from Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger at hotmail dot de> --- Ok, I think I understand now, what is wrong. r216989 did just cause the strict-alignment code path to be executed, which was not the case before. Actually the extract_bit_field code is also wrong, but the combine pass replaces the two instruction sequence and/shift with ubfx, but for the store_bit_field the generated code is way too complex for the combine pass. So, this would by my first idea, how to fix it: Index: expmed.c =================================================================== --- expmed.c (revision 221087) +++ expmed.c (working copy) @@ -1080,6 +1080,15 @@ store_fixed_bit_field_1 (rtx op0, unsigned HOST_WI mode = GET_MODE (op0); gcc_assert (SCALAR_INT_MODE_P (mode)); + if (MEM_P (op0) && bitsize < GET_MODE_BITSIZE (mode)) + { + temp = copy_to_reg (op0); + store_bit_field_1 (temp, bitsize, bitnum, 0, 0, + mode, value, true); + emit_move_insn (op0, temp); + return; + } + /* Note that bitsize + bitnum can be greater than GET_MODE_BITSIZE (mode) for invalid input, such as f5 from gcc.dg/pr48335-2.c. */ @@ -1852,6 +1861,14 @@ extract_fixed_bit_field_1 (machine_mode tmode, rtx machine_mode mode = GET_MODE (op0); gcc_assert (SCALAR_INT_MODE_P (mode)); + if (MEM_P (op0) && bitsize < GET_MODE_BITSIZE (mode)) + { + op0 = copy_to_reg (op0); + return extract_bit_field_1 (op0, bitsize, bitnum, + unsignedp, target, + mode, tmode, true); + } + /* Note that bitsize + bitnum can be greater than GET_MODE_BITSIZE (mode) for invalid input, such as extract equivalent of f5 from gcc.dg/pr48335-2.c. */