diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index 13974184acd..dc260e58149 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2010-03-04  Andrew Pinski  <andrew_pinski@caviumnetworks.com>
+
+	PR c/43248
+	* c-decl.c (build_compound_literal): Return early if init is
+	an error_mark_node.
+
 2010-03-04  Martin Jambor  <mjambor@suse.cz>
 
 	PR tree-optimization/43164
diff --git a/gcc/c-decl.c b/gcc/c-decl.c
index f0b6463dc15..87fb19a3d47 100644
--- a/gcc/c-decl.c
+++ b/gcc/c-decl.c
@@ -4462,7 +4462,8 @@ build_compound_literal (location_t loc, tree type, tree init, bool non_const)
   tree complit;
   tree stmt;
 
-  if (type == error_mark_node)
+  if (type == error_mark_node
+      || init == error_mark_node)
     return error_mark_node;
 
   decl = build_decl (loc, VAR_DECL, NULL_TREE, type);
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog b/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
index ca2b87539ef..57e2fa6da33 100644
--- a/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-03-04  Andrew Pinski  <andrew_pinski@caviumnetworks.com>
+
+	PR c/43248
+	* gcc.dg/compound-literal-1.c: New testcase.
+
 2010-03-04  Martin Jambor  <mjambor@suse.cz>
 
 	PR tree-optimization/43164
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/compound-literal-1.c b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/compound-literal-1.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6c644d46ea3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/compound-literal-1.c
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+/* { dg-do compile } */
+
+/* PR c/43248 */
+
+int foo(__SIZE_TYPE__ i)
+{
+  i ? : (void *){}; /* { dg-error "" } */
+}
+