The following patch avoids overaligned types created from IPA parameter replacement. It is said to help mipsel which still suffers from the backend-looks-at-type-alignment-for-parameter-passing-ABI bug.
Bootstrap and regtest pending on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu. mips testing appreciated. Richard. 2016-08-05 Richard Biener <rguent...@suse.de> PR ipa/68273 * ipa-prop.c (ipa_modify_formal_parameters): Build parameter types with natural alignment also for the over-aligned case. Index: gcc/ipa-prop.c =================================================================== --- gcc/ipa-prop.c (revision 239164) +++ gcc/ipa-prop.c (working copy) @@ -3910,7 +3909,7 @@ ipa_modify_formal_parameters (tree fndec if (is_gimple_reg_type (ptype)) { unsigned malign = GET_MODE_ALIGNMENT (TYPE_MODE (ptype)); - if (TYPE_ALIGN (ptype) < malign) + if (TYPE_ALIGN (ptype) != malign) ptype = build_aligned_type (ptype, malign); } }