------- Comment #18 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org 2009-06-08 17:50 ------- (In reply to comment #17) > I am not sure myself, I believe that there are not so many cases in > which this would prove beneficial. When there are no operations > performed on the scalars, the only situation I can think of would be > some extensive copy propagation.
Or the case where expand does something stupid which does happen one time or another. I think for unions it should always happen no matter what (because unions have the mode set to BLKmode). -- Pinski -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32950