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Re: [PATCH/RFC] Start to use VIEW_CONVERT_EXPR more and start to fix PR 26069
On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 21:20 -0400, Richard Kenner wrote:
> I agree that (2) is worthwhile since V_C_E on the LHS is peculiar. However,
> I don't understand the reference to being marked addressable. There's no
> reason to mark the operand of V_C_E as addressable. In no way do we take
> a pointer that can be used elsewhere. And the only time we're going to be
> forcing it into memory is in the BLKmode case, when it's already in memory.
Because that is a documented requirement in tree.def and also if it is
not marked as addressable, you get an ICE.
-- Pinski