It turns out that we're calling eliminate_regs for global variables which can't possibly have eliminable regs in their decl. At that point, reg_eliminate can be NULL. This patch avoids unnecessary work, and allows us to add an assert to eliminate_regs later.
gcc/ * dbxout.c (dbxout_symbol): Don't call eliminate_regs on TREE_STATIC decls. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Index: gcc/dbxout.c =================================================================== --- gcc/dbxout.c (revision 422348) +++ gcc/dbxout.c (revision 422349) @@ -2943,7 +2943,8 @@ dbxout_symbol (tree decl, int local ATTR if (!decl_rtl) DBXOUT_DECR_NESTING_AND_RETURN (0); - decl_rtl = eliminate_regs (decl_rtl, VOIDmode, NULL_RTX); + if (!TREE_STATIC (decl)) + decl_rtl = eliminate_regs (decl_rtl, VOIDmode, NULL_RTX); #ifdef LEAF_REG_REMAP if (crtl->uses_only_leaf_regs) leaf_renumber_regs_insn (decl_rtl);