This patch updates assign_parm_find_data_types to assign passed_mode and nominal_mode with the mode of the built pointer type instead of the hard-coded Pmode in the case of pass-by-reference. This is in line with the assignment to passed_mode and nominal_mode in other cases inside the function. assign_parm_find_data_types generally uses TYPE_MODE to calculate passed_mode and nominal_mode: /* Find mode of arg as it is passed, and mode of arg as it should be during execution of this function. */ passed_mode = TYPE_MODE (passed_type); nominal_mode = TYPE_MODE (nominal_type); this includes the case when the passed argument is a pointer by itself. However there is a discrepancy when it deals with argument passed by invisible reference; it builds the argument's corresponding pointer type, but sets passed_mode and nominal_mode with Pmode directly. This is OK for targets where Pmode == ptr_mode, but on AArch64 with ILP32 they are different with Pmode as DImode and ptr_mode as SImode. When such a reference is passed on stack, the reference is prepared by the caller in the lower 4 bytes of an 8-byte slot but is fetched by the callee as an 8-byte datum, of which the higher 4 bytes may contain junk. It is probably the combination of Pmode != ptr_mode and the particular ABI specification that make the AArch64 ILP32 the first target on which the issue manifests itself. Bootstrapped on x86_64-none-linux-gnu. OK for the trunk? Thanks, Yufeng gcc/ * function.c (assign_parm_find_data_types): Set passed_mode and nominal_mode to the TYPE_MODE of nominal_type for the built pointer type in case of the struct-pass-by-reference.