Hi all I found IVopts rewrite a memory access with a weird iv candidate, which make it lost its original memory attribute. a non-local memory access' base pointer was rewrite into a local one, and it was deleted in pass_cd_dce since it was recognized as a local memory access. here is the case i simplified from a decoder source foo1(unsigned char* pSrcLeft, unsigned char* pSrcAbove, unsigned char* pSrcAboveLeft, unsigned char* pDst, int dstStep, int leftStep) { signed int x, y, s; unsigned char p1[5], p2[5], p3; p1[0] = *pSrcAboveLeft; p2[0] = p1[0]; p2[1] = pSrcLeft[0]; pSrcLeft += leftStep; p2[2] = pSrcLeft[0]; pSrcLeft += leftStep; p2[3] = pSrcLeft[0]; pSrcLeft += leftStep; p2[4] = pSrcLeft[0]; p1[1] = pSrcAbove[0]; p1[2] = pSrcAbove[1]; p1[3] = pSrcAbove[2]; p1[4] = pSrcAbove[3]; p3 = (unsigned char)(((signed int)p1[1] + (signed int)p2[1] + (signed int)p1[0] +(signed int)p1[0] + 2 ) >> 2 ); for( y=0; y<4; y++, pDst += dstStep ) { for( x=y+1; x<4; x++ ) { s = ( p1[x-y-1] + p1[x-y] + p1[x-y] + p1[x-y+1] + 2 ) >> 2; pDst[x] = (unsigned char)s; } pDst[y] = p3; -----------------This memory access } } before IVopts D.6508_65 = pDst_88 + y.6_64; *D.6508_65 = p3_37; after IVopts it was rewrite to MEM[symbol: p1, index: ivtmp.161_200, offset: 0B] = p3_37 , by candidate 15 depends on 3 var_before ivtmp.161 var_after ivtmp.161 incremented before exit test type unsigned int base (unsigned int) pDst_39(D) - (unsigned int) &p1 step (unsigned int) (pretmp.28_118 + 1) so it still is &p1+ pDst - &p1 + step = pDst + step, and in pass_cd_dce, is_hidden_global_store () return false for this memory since it think this stmt only access local array p1. gcc version r180694 Configured with: /home/croseadu/android/_src/src/gcc-src/configure --host=i486-linux-gnu --build=i486-linux-gnu --target=arm-none-linux-gnueabi --prefix=/home/croseadu/android/_src/install/arm-none-linux-gnueabi --enable-threads --disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --disable-libstdcxx-pch --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --enable-languages=c,c++ --enable-shared --enable-symvers=gnu --enable-__cxa_atexit --with-specs='%{funwind-tables|fno-unwind-tables|mabi=*|ffreestanding|nostdlib:;:-funwind-tables}' --disable-nls --enable-lto --with-sysroot=/home/croseadu/android/_src/install/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/libc --with-build-sysroot=/home/croseadu/android/_src/install/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/libc --with-gmp=/home/croseadu/android/_src/objs/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/obj/host-libs-/usr --with-mpfr=/home/croseadu/android/_src/objs/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/obj/host-libs-/usr --with-ppl=/home/croseadu/android/_src/objs/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/obj/host-libs-/usr --with-host-libstdcxx='-static-libgcc -Wl,-Bstatic,-lstdc++,-Bdynamic -lm' --with-cloog=/home/croseadu/android/_src/objs/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/obj/host-libs-/usr --enable-cloog-backend=isl --with-mpc=/home/croseadu/android/_src/objs/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/obj/host-libs-/usr --enable-poison-system-directories --disable-libquadmath --enable-lto --enable-libgomp --with-build-time-tools=/home/croseadu/android/_src/install/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin --with-cpu=cortex-a8 --with-float=soft compile flags: -O3 -mfpu=neon -mfloat-abi=softfp -mvectorize-with-neon-double need file a bug? Yuehai Du