http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45878
--- Comment #7 from Iain Sandoe <iains at gcc dot gnu.org> 2010-10-13 14:25:57 UTC --- (In reply to comment #6) > (In reply to comment #5) thanks for the patch ... > It is likely a miscommunication (or lack of definition) on what the middle-end > expects from an OBJ_TYPE_REF and what the ObjC frontend uses it for or how > it does that. What should be amended to make this clear? (I have no recollection of seeing any definition in the ObjC code, or elsewhere). > The CCP folding piece looks overly simple to me, it should use the > fold-stmt machinery: > > Index: tree-ssa-ccp.c ... the patch seems to solve the problem on NeXT (from a stage3-bubble, will set a full regstrap going shortly) > but as my ObjC/ObjC++ results on Linux are clean I can't see any issue > with testing. Hmm? Nicola, is there any way of extracting something from GNUStep that would show this on linux? - to use as a testcase.