https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=70512
this fixes the canonical type mismatch of 70512. As surmised we don't correct the ptr-to and ref-to types created during the structure parse when late-applying the may_alias attribute.
This patch adjusts fixup_attribute_variants to walk the ptr-to and ref-to lists setting the TYPE_REF_CAN_ALIAS_ALL flag. We also walk those lists for the main variant itself.
It wasn't clear to me whether decl_attributes (attribs.c) should mark the ptr-to and ref-to lists of the type having the may_alias attribute applied in place?
By construction, we'll adjust the appropriate canonical types, IIUC. ok? nathan
2016-04-04 Nathan Sidwell <nat...@acm.org> PR c++/70512 * class.c (fixup_may_alias): New. (fixup_attribute_variants): Call it. * g++.dg/ext/attribute-may-alias-5.C: New. Index: cp/class.c =================================================================== --- cp/class.c (revision 234715) +++ cp/class.c (working copy) @@ -1978,6 +1978,21 @@ fixup_type_variants (tree t) } } +/* KLASS is a class that we're applying may_alias to after the body is + parsed. Fixup any POINTER_TO and REFERENCE_TO types. The + canonical type(s) will be implicitly updated. */ + +static void +fixup_may_alias (tree klass) +{ + tree t; + + for (t = TYPE_POINTER_TO (klass); t; t = TYPE_NEXT_PTR_TO (t)) + TYPE_REF_CAN_ALIAS_ALL (t) = true; + for (t = TYPE_REFERENCE_TO (klass); t; t = TYPE_NEXT_REF_TO (t)) + TYPE_REF_CAN_ALIAS_ALL (t) = true; +} + /* Early variant fixups: we apply attributes at the beginning of the class definition, and we need to fix up any variants that have already been made via elaborated-type-specifier so that check_qualified_type works. */ @@ -1993,6 +2008,10 @@ fixup_attribute_variants (tree t) tree attrs = TYPE_ATTRIBUTES (t); unsigned align = TYPE_ALIGN (t); bool user_align = TYPE_USER_ALIGN (t); + bool may_alias = lookup_attribute ("may_alias", attrs); + + if (may_alias) + fixup_may_alias (t); for (variants = TYPE_NEXT_VARIANT (t); variants; @@ -2007,6 +2026,8 @@ fixup_attribute_variants (tree t) else TYPE_USER_ALIGN (variants) = user_align; TYPE_ALIGN (variants) = valign; + if (may_alias) + fixup_may_alias (variants); } } Index: testsuite/g++.dg/ext/attribute-may-alias-5.C =================================================================== --- testsuite/g++.dg/ext/attribute-may-alias-5.C (nonexistent) +++ testsuite/g++.dg/ext/attribute-may-alias-5.C (working copy) @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +// PR c++/70512 + +struct S +{ + S& operator= (int) + { + return *this; + } +} __attribute__ ((__may_alias__));