Ping for this reload inheritance patch: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-12/msg00266.html
or perhaps the original: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-10/msg00663.html It fixes some wrong-code regressions in execute/scal-to-vec1.c on mips64-linux-gnu and mips64-elf. Richard