http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45233
--- Comment #5 from Iain Sandoe <iains at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-11-07 08:24:54 UTC --- (In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #3) FWIW gcc-4.2.1 (Apple local) fails and clang passes the test (although clang's asm at version 2.9 is a bit long-winded c.f. GCC's ... but that's quite an old version). > > or not properly restoring the UNSPEC during reload (it's its duty, not > > IRAs). > > I'll check this too. Thanks Richi, this seems to be the problem - it appears that the reload legitimizer does not consider that the item might be 'undefined' (in the mach-o, local-to-the-file sense) - and, therefore, there was no mechanism to recreate the necessary indirection. so, this is a fix - which bootstraps and regtests: I'd very much like an opinion as to whether it's the _right_ fix ... this is an area with which I am not familiar and therefore could have missed some other guard that's needed. It's clearly a very infrequent (perhaps even non-existent) occurrence outside the particular asm test-case (which makes me wonder still if combine came to the right decision to remove the refs in the first place). Index: gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c =================================================================== --- gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c (revision 181027) +++ gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c (working copy) @@ -6185,7 +6185,21 @@ rs6000_legitimize_reload_address (rtx x, enum mach #if TARGET_MACHO if (flag_pic) { - rtx offset = machopic_gen_offset (x); + rtx offset; + + /* Reload might present us with a case where there is a reference to + an undefined entity. */ + if (!machopic_symbol_defined_p (x) && !MACHO_DYNAMIC_NO_PIC_P) + { + offset = gen_rtx_SYMBOL_REF (Pmode, + machopic_indirection_name (x, + false)); + SYMBOL_REF_DATA (offset) = SYMBOL_REF_DATA (x); + machopic_define_symbol (gen_const_mem (Pmode,offset)); + x = offset; + } + + offset = machopic_gen_offset (x); x = gen_rtx_LO_SUM (GET_MODE (x), gen_rtx_PLUS (Pmode, pic_offset_table_rtx, gen_rtx_HIGH (Pmode, offset)), offset);