https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109350
--- Comment #4 from Andrew Macleod <amacleod at redhat dot com> --- Perhaps its clearer (HA!) if I turn the IL into a C program: This is what the code sequence we are seeing effectively does: int need_beer(int value); int need_big_beer(unsigned long value); int beer(int value) { unsigned long x = value; unsigned long y = x + 0x80000000; if (y < 0xFFFFFFFF) { int r = x; int t = r + 1; unsigned long z = t; if (x > 0x3FFFFFFFFFFFFFFC) { need_beer (r); if (z <= 0x3FFFFFFFFFFFFFFC) need_big_beer (z); } } } and with relevant outgoing edges: <bb 2> : x_3 = (long unsigned int) value_2(D); y_4 = x_3 + 2147483648; if (y_4 != 4294967295) goto <bb 3>; [INV] else goto <bb 6>; [INV] x_3 : [irange] long unsigned int [0, 2147483647][18446744071562067968, +INF] y_4 : [irange] long unsigned int [0, 4294967295] NONZERO 0xffffffff 2->3 (T) value_2(D) : [irange] int [-INF, 2147483646] 2->3 (T) x_3 : [irange] long unsigned int [0, 2147483646][18446744071562067968, +INF] 2->3 (T) y_4 : [irange] long unsigned int [0, 4294967294] NONZERO 0xffffffff <bb 3> : t_7 = value_2(D) + 1; z_8 = (long unsigned int) t_7; if (x_3 > 4611686018427387900) goto <bb 4>; [INV] else goto <bb 6>; [INV] t_7 : [irange] int [-2147483647, +INF] z_8 : [irange] long unsigned int [0, 2147483647][18446744071562067969, +INF] 3->4 (T) value_2(D) : [irange] int [-INF, -1] 3->4 (T) x_3 : [irange] long unsigned int [18446744071562067968, +INF] 3->4 (T) t_7 : [irange] int [-2147483647, 0] 3->4 (T) z_8 : [irange] long unsigned int [0, 0][18446744071562067969, +INF] <bb 4> : need_beer (value_2(D)); if (z_8 <= 4611686018427387900) goto <bb 5>; [INV] else goto <bb 6>; [INV] 4->5 (T) value_2(D) : [irange] int [-1, -1] 4->5 (T) z_8 : [irange] long unsigned int [0, 0] NONZERO 0x0 <bb 5> : need_big_beer (0);