------- Comment #11 from dberlin at gcc dot gnu dot org 2005-11-14 18:14 ------- Mark, the frontend is producing the address of a constructor, and nothing in the middle end used to be really analyzing static iniatlizers which is why it didn't break before (those that do try to look at them would give up in this case, but static vars analysis can't give up without destroying the results of the entire analysis)
IMHO, this easier to fix in the frontend than in the middle end, by simply not producing &CONSTRUCTOR. What exactly is ADDRESSOF(CONSTRUCTOR) anyway? ISTM it should require a temporary variable to evaluate. However, we can't GIMPLIFY it and do that for you because it's a static initializer (and we don't gimplify those), so it's either teach *every single thing that wants to look at DECL_INITIAL for a static initializer* what ADDRESSOF(CONSTUCTOR) is supposed to mean, or make the frontend do something like split it into two variables. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23171
