diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index 2042aba1efe..d21a6db4278 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-04-09  Roger Sayle  <roger@eyesopen.com>
+
+	* expr.c (store_constructor): Don't bother clearing target if
+	we're about to assign a vector to it using vec_init_optab.
+
 2006-04-10 Daniel Berlin  <dberlin@dberlin.org>
 	
 	* tree-ssa-alias.c (lhs_may_store_to): New function.
diff --git a/gcc/expr.c b/gcc/expr.c
index 904d4fcb30f..1f4cbe10151 100644
--- a/gcc/expr.c
+++ b/gcc/expr.c
@@ -5325,7 +5325,7 @@ store_constructor (tree exp, rtx target, int cleared, HOST_WIDE_INT size)
 	  }
 	
 	/* Inform later passes that the old value is dead.  */
-	if (!cleared && REG_P (target))
+	if (!cleared && !vector && REG_P (target))
 	  emit_move_insn (target, CONST0_RTX (GET_MODE (target)));
 
         /* Store each element of the constructor into the corresponding