This fixes the IPA-SRA sub-optimality discovered in PR51895. We should avoid decomposing anything into BLKmode components if the original param wasn't already BLKmode.
Bootstrap and regtest pending on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu. Richard. 2012-01-23 Richard Guenther <rguent...@suse.de> PR tree-optimization/51895 * tree-sra.c (decide_one_param_reduction): Avoid sub-optimal parameter decomposition into BLKmode components. Index: gcc/tree-sra.c =================================================================== --- gcc/tree-sra.c (revision 183421) +++ gcc/tree-sra.c (working copy) @@ -3914,6 +3914,13 @@ decide_one_param_reduction (struct acces if (by_ref && repr->non_addressable) return 0; + /* Do not decompose a non-BLKmode param in a way that would + create BLKmode params. Especially for by-reference passing + (thus, pointer-type param) this is hardly worthwhile. */ + if (DECL_MODE (parm) != BLKmode + && TYPE_MODE (repr->type) == BLKmode) + return 0; + if (!by_ref || (!repr->grp_maybe_modified && !repr->grp_not_necessarilly_dereferenced)) total_size += repr->size;