diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index 3c80308120f..13e3e2fc3fe 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2009-10-16  Richard Guenther  <rguenther@suse.de>
+
+	PR lto/41713
+	* lto-streamer-out.c (lto_output_tree_ref): Handle DEBUG_EXPR_DECL
+	the same as VAR_DECL.
+
 2009-10-16  Richard Guenther  <rguenther@suse.de>
 
 	* gimple.c (iterative_hash_gimple_type): For integer types
diff --git a/gcc/lto-streamer-out.c b/gcc/lto-streamer-out.c
index 9d097f0b503..737206cb8f6 100644
--- a/gcc/lto-streamer-out.c
+++ b/gcc/lto-streamer-out.c
@@ -690,6 +690,7 @@ lto_output_tree_ref (struct output_block *ob, tree expr)
       break;
 
     case VAR_DECL:
+    case DEBUG_EXPR_DECL:
       gcc_assert (decl_function_context (expr) == NULL);
       output_record_start (ob, LTO_global_decl_ref);
       lto_output_var_decl_index (ob->decl_state, ob->main_stream, expr);
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog b/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
index 587f1536920..d55be035dfc 100644
--- a/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2009-10-16  Richard Guenther  <rguenther@suse.de>
+
+	PR lto/41713
+	* gfortran.dg/lto/20091016-1_0.f90: New testcase.
+
 2009-10-15  Jakub Jelinek  <jakub@redhat.com>
 
 	PR debug/41717
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/lto/20091016-1_0.f90 b/gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/lto/20091016-1_0.f90
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c26ad90fbe2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/lto/20091016-1_0.f90
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+! { dg-lto-do link }
+! { dg-lto-options {{-flto -g -fPIC -shared} {-O -flto -g -fPIC -shared}} }
+
+      FUNCTION makenumberstring(x)
+      IMPLICIT NONE
+      REAL, INTENT(IN)     :: x
+      CHARACTER(len=20)      :: makenumberstring
+      INTEGER             :: xx
+      xx = x**2  ! << ICE
+      makenumberstring = ''
+      END FUNCTION
+