https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=118790
--- Comment #24 from Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> --- So --- gcc/tree-ssa-live.cc.jj 2025-01-02 11:23:05.915664859 +0100 +++ gcc/tree-ssa-live.cc 2025-02-11 14:44:33.940178150 +0100 @@ -369,9 +369,17 @@ mark_all_vars_used_1 (tree *tp, int *wal { /* When a global var becomes used for the first time also walk its initializer (non global ones don't have any). */ - if (set_is_used (t) && is_global_var (t) - && DECL_CONTEXT (t) == current_function_decl) - mark_all_vars_used (&DECL_INITIAL (t)); + if (set_is_used (t)) + { + if (is_global_var (t) + && DECL_CONTEXT (t) == current_function_decl) + mark_all_vars_used (&DECL_INITIAL (t)); + if (DECL_HAS_VALUE_EXPR_P (t)) + { + tree dve = DECL_VALUE_EXPR (t); + mark_all_vars_used (&dve); + } + } } /* remove_unused_scope_block_p requires information about labels which are not DECL_IGNORED_P to tell if they might be used in the IL. */ ? Except this doesn't work, that new code isn't encountered on the testcase, so it must be something else that removes the vars.