On October 17, 2015 11:26:43 AM GMT+02:00, Eric Botcazou 
<ebotca...@adacore.com> wrote:
>> Well, it would (I think) ICE on assigning a packed variant to a
>non-packed
>> variant of a strict that happens to get a non-BLKmode when not
>packed.
>
>Is "it" GIMPLE here?  My sentence was not very clear, I meant that I
>don't see 
>why GIMPLE would have to care about whether there is a VCE or not in
>the IL.

Huh, I thought your question was about the mode check in 
useless_type_conversion_p.

>And AFAIK nobody answered the question: what do we gain by making this
>change?
>So far I have only seen breakages, suspicious fixes and code
>duplication...

Honza wants the structural equality predicate (operand_equal_p) complete 
(optimistically) for GIMPLE.

Richard.


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