https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99826
Bug ID: 99826 Summary: GIMPLE FE fails to grok pointer declarators Product: gcc Version: 11.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: c Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org Target Milestone: --- char * __GIMPLE(ssa) foo(char *p) { char *_2; __BB(2): _2 = p_1(D); return _2; } shows two issues, first the return type declaration causes __GIMPLE to be not associated with the function, failing it to parse at all. Fixing that using a typedef shows that we fail to parse the SSA declaration 'char *_2' as SSA name declaration because we have /* Handle SSA name decls specially, they do not go into the identifier table but we simply build the SSA name for later lookup. */ unsigned version, ver_offset; if (declarator->kind == cdk_id && is_gimple_reg_type (specs->type) but declarator is $5 = {kind = cdk_pointer, id_loc = 0, declarator = 0x3775200, u = {id = { id = <tree 0x0>, attrs = <tree 0x0>}, arg_info = 0x0, array = { dimen = <tree 0x0>, quals = 0, attrs = <tree 0x0>, static_p = 0, vla_unspec_p = 0}, pointer_quals = 0, attrs = <tree 0x0>}} in this case. It looks like we need to unwrap cdk_pointer at least (and build the actual pointer type in the SSA case). The "early-out" case for SSA names tries to avoid start_decl and building a decl (and registering it in the binding for future lookup).