https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110924
Richard Biener <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |hubicka at gcc dot gnu.org --- Comment #9 from Richard Biener <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> --- Hm, OK. So I actually thought of this issue. It's basically a hole in the requirement of all function "exits" having a virtual use and thus virtual PHIs being created along the paths to it. I was aware of GIMPLE_RESX and thought about const noreturn (but that attribute combination is rejected). IPA pure-const detects func_15 as looping 'const' and noreturn: Function is locally const. Function found to be noreturn: func_15 Function found to be looping const: func_15/2 Declaration updated to be looping const: func_15/2 so there's two ways to "fix" this, one - drop the assumption we have PHIs on the paths to function exit (including in not returning regions). That makes virtual_operand_live::get_live_in (basic_block bb) { ... /* Since we don't have a virtual PHI we can now pick any of the incoming edges liveout value. All returns from the function have a virtual use forcing generation of virtual PHIs. */ edge_iterator ei; edge e; FOR_EACH_EDGE (e, ei, bb->preds) if (liveout[e->src->index]) { if (EDGE_PRED (bb, 0) != e) liveout[EDGE_PRED (bb, 0)->src->index] = liveout[e->src->index]; return liveout[e->src->index]; } instead required to check each edge and we can't simply take the value from the immediate dominator as fallback. When we discover divergence we need to return NULL (unknown - nobody created the actually live VOP). The other alternative is to make sure we _do_ have the virtual operand. Either by making sure the "invalid" combination of const + noreturn isn't detected or by creating a virtual use in that case anyway (and fixup code because of that inconsistency).