http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47744
--- Comment #13 from Uros Bizjak <ubizjak at gmail dot com> 2011-07-17 20:02:40 UTC --- Looking at the example in Comment #0, RTX expansion pass generates: ;; D.2794_77 = &q + D.2793_76; (insn 84 83 85 (parallel [ (set (reg:DI 173) (plus:DI (reg/f:DI 54 virtual-stack-vars) (const_int -160 [0xffffffffffffff60]))) (clobber (reg:CC 17 flags)) ]) pr47744.c:5 -1 (nil)) Why 64bit virtual register to hold &q _address_?