On Thu, 23 May 2013, Eric Botcazou wrote:

> > earlier this week I asked on IRC whether we could have non-top-level
> > BIT_FIELD_REFs and Richi said that we could.  However, when I later
> > looked at SRA code, quite apparently it is not designed to handle
> > non-top-level BIT_FIELD_REFs, IMAGPART_EXPRs or REALPART_EXPRs.  So in
> > order to test whether that assumption is OK, I added the following
> > into the gimple verifier and ran bootstrap and testsuite of all
> > languages including Ada and ObjC++ on x86_64.  It survived, which
> > makes me wondering whether we do not want it in trunk.
> 
> This looks plausible to me, but I think that you ought to verify the real 
> assumption instead, which is that the type of the 3 nodes is always scalar.
> The non-toplevelness of the nodes is merely a consequence of this property.

Yeah.  But please put the verification into tree-cfg.c:verify_expr
instead.

Thanks,
Richard.

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