diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index 72dd1c2b3e2..77f1b32fdaa 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2013-11-07  Kyrylo Tkachov  <kyrylo.tkachov@arm.com>
+
+	* config/aarch64/aarch64.c (aarch64_legitimize_reload_address):
+	Explain why plus_constant is not used.
+
 2013-11-07  Richard Biener  <rguenther@suse.de>
 
 	* tree-ssa-ccp.c (canonicalize_float_value): Rename to ...
diff --git a/gcc/config/aarch64/aarch64.c b/gcc/config/aarch64/aarch64.c
index 30c8eb00805..8458cac34f2 100644
--- a/gcc/config/aarch64/aarch64.c
+++ b/gcc/config/aarch64/aarch64.c
@@ -4033,7 +4033,11 @@ aarch64_legitimize_reload_address (rtx *x_p,
 	cst = force_const_mem (xmode, cst);
 
       /* Reload high part into base reg, leaving the low part
-	 in the mem instruction.  */
+	 in the mem instruction.
+	 Note that replacing this gen_rtx_PLUS with plus_constant is
+	 wrong in this case because we rely on the
+	 (plus (plus reg c1) c2) structure being preserved so that
+	 XEXP (*p, 0) in push_reload below uses the correct term.  */
       x = gen_rtx_PLUS (xmode,
 			gen_rtx_PLUS (xmode, XEXP (x, 0), cst),
 			GEN_INT (low));