Although copy_value() in regcprop.c tries to avoid recording cases where substitutions would be illegal, there are some bad cases it still can let through.
On 64-bit sparc, integer regs are 64-bit and float regs are (basically) 32-bit. So HARD_REGNO_NREGS(float_reg, DFmode) is 2, and HARD_REGNO_NREGS(integer_reg, DImode) is 1. cprop sees the sequence: (insn 330 172 230 .. (set (reg:DI %g2) const_int) (insn 171 330 173 .. (set (reg:DF %f10) (reg:DF %g2))) (insn 173 171 222 .. (set (reg:DF %f2) (reg:DF %f10))) (insn 222 173 223 .. (set (MEM:SI ..) (reg:SI %f10))) (insn 223 222 174 .. (set (MEM:SI ..) (reg:SI %f11))) And then it believes that in insn 222 it can replace %f10 with %g2, but this is not a correct transformation. cprop uses hard_regno_nregs[][] to attempt to detect illegal cases like this one, but such checks will not trigger here because hard_regno_nregs[][] is '1' for all of the registers being inspected: hard_regno_nregs[][] (reg:SI f10) 1 hard_regno_nregs[][] (reg:DI g2) 1 The (set (reg:DI %g2) const_int) is generated by the *movdf_insn_sp64 insn which in turn triggers a splitter for loading float constants into integer registers. The MEM:SI stores are reloads generated by IRA for a pseudo that has to live across a call. For whatever reason it allocated only a 4-byte aligned stack location, and I suppose that is why the reload is split into 2 SImode pieces. To reproduce build gcc.c-torture/execute/ieee/mzero.c with "-m64 -mcpu=niagara3 -O2" on sparc. I'm suspecting that perhaps cprop is ok, and the real issue is that sparc's definition of CANNOT_CHANGE_MODE_CLASS needs to be adjusted.