The following patch makes sure to preserve (mis-)alignment of memory references when IVOPTs generates TARGET_MEM_REFs for them.
Bootstrapped on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, testing in progress. Richard. 2017-04-06 Richard Biener <rguent...@suse.de> PR tree-optimization/80334 * tree-ssa-loop-ivopts.c (rewrite_use_address): Properly preserve alignment of accesses. * g++.dg/torture/pr80334.C: New testcase. Index: gcc/tree-ssa-loop-ivopts.c =================================================================== --- gcc/tree-ssa-loop-ivopts.c (revision 246724) +++ gcc/tree-ssa-loop-ivopts.c (working copy) @@ -7396,7 +7396,11 @@ rewrite_use_address (struct ivopts_data base_hint = var_at_stmt (data->current_loop, cand, use->stmt); iv = var_at_stmt (data->current_loop, cand, use->stmt); - ref = create_mem_ref (&bsi, TREE_TYPE (*use->op_p), &aff, + tree type = TREE_TYPE (*use->op_p); + unsigned int align = get_object_alignment (*use->op_p); + if (align != TYPE_ALIGN (type)) + type = build_aligned_type (type, align); + ref = create_mem_ref (&bsi, type, &aff, reference_alias_ptr_type (*use->op_p), iv, base_hint, data->speed); copy_ref_info (ref, *use->op_p); Index: gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/torture/pr80334.C =================================================================== --- gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/torture/pr80334.C (nonexistent) +++ gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/torture/pr80334.C (working copy) @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +// { dg-do run } + +struct A { alignas(16) char c; }; +struct B { A unpacked; char d; } __attribute__((packed)); + +char x; + +int +main() +{ + alignas(16) B b[3]; + for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) b[i].unpacked.c = 'a' + i; + for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) + { + auto a = new A(b[i].unpacked); + x = a->c; + } +}