I stumbled over this odd call, present since CVS repo import (r348).
Bootstrapped on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, testing in progress.
Richard.
2016-04-28 Richard Biener <rguent...@suse.de>
* stor-layout.c (layout_type): Do not build a pointer-to-element
type for arrays.
Index: gcc/stor-layout.c
===================================================================
--- gcc/stor-layout.c (revision 235557)
+++ gcc/stor-layout.c (working copy)
@@ -2243,8 +2243,6 @@ layout_type (tree type)
tree index = TYPE_DOMAIN (type);
tree element = TREE_TYPE (type);
- build_pointer_type (element);
-
/* We need to know both bounds in order to compute the size. */
if (index && TYPE_MAX_VALUE (index) && TYPE_MIN_VALUE (index)
&& TYPE_SIZE (element))
