Hi, On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Richard Guenther wrote:
> > If people want to not create useless conversions in the first place, > > though, I suspect there are lots of places that create useless > > conversions in the compiler. > > Yeah, the above looks it comes from the frontends - gimplification > should strip this conversion, if it doesn't that is a bug ;) Well, Mike said this view_convert_expr actually is on the LHS of an assignment. I wouldn't be surprised if nobody strips "useless" conversions of LHSes, exactly because such things on a LHS are no conversions. Ciao, Michael.