We somehow forgot to handle STRING_CSTs when looking through memcpy like functions.
Fixed as follows, bootstrapped and tested on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, applied. Richard. 2017-11-24 Richard Biener <rguent...@suse.de> PR tree-optimization/83128 * tree-ssa-sccvn.c (fully_constant_vn_reference_p): Handle STRING_CSTs. (vn_reference_lookup_3): Likewise. * gcc.dg/tree-ssa/ssa-fre-62.c: New testcase. Index: gcc/tree-ssa-sccvn.c =================================================================== --- gcc/tree-ssa-sccvn.c (revision 255093) +++ gcc/tree-ssa-sccvn.c (working copy) @@ -1388,10 +1388,14 @@ fully_constant_vn_reference_p (vn_refere else if (base->opcode == MEM_REF && base[1].opcode == ADDR_EXPR && (TREE_CODE (TREE_OPERAND (base[1].op0, 0)) == VAR_DECL - || TREE_CODE (TREE_OPERAND (base[1].op0, 0)) == CONST_DECL)) + || TREE_CODE (TREE_OPERAND (base[1].op0, 0)) == CONST_DECL + || TREE_CODE (TREE_OPERAND (base[1].op0, 0)) == STRING_CST)) { decl = TREE_OPERAND (base[1].op0, 0); - ctor = ctor_for_folding (decl); + if (TREE_CODE (decl) == STRING_CST) + ctor = decl; + else + ctor = ctor_for_folding (decl); } if (ctor == NULL_TREE) return build_zero_cst (ref->type); @@ -2331,7 +2335,8 @@ vn_reference_lookup_3 (ao_ref *ref, tree rhs = TREE_OPERAND (tem, 0); rhs_offset += tree_to_uhwi (TREE_OPERAND (tem, 1)); } - else if (DECL_P (tem)) + else if (DECL_P (tem) + || TREE_CODE (tem) == STRING_CST) rhs = build_fold_addr_expr (tem); else return (void *)-1; Index: gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/tree-ssa/ssa-fre-62.c =================================================================== --- gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/tree-ssa/ssa-fre-62.c (nonexistent) +++ gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/tree-ssa/ssa-fre-62.c (working copy) @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +/* { dg-do compile } */ +/* { dg-options "-O -fdump-tree-fre1" } */ + +char f() +{ + char *i = (char*)__builtin_malloc(100); + __builtin_memcpy(i, "a", 1); + return i[0]; +} + +/* { dg-final { scan-tree-dump "return 97;" "fre1" } } */