diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index d78270596b99..90346378ae28 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2007-01-05  Richard Guenther  <rguenther@suse.de>
+
+	PR middle-end/27826
+	* tree.c (get_narrower): Do not construct COMPONENT_REFs
+	with mismatched types.  Instead explicitly build a
+	conversion NOP_EXPR.
+
 2007-01-05  Jakub Jelinek  <jakub@redhat.com>
 
 	PR c/30360
diff --git a/gcc/tree.c b/gcc/tree.c
index d2aafdf57cb9..3cba08c4211e 100644
--- a/gcc/tree.c
+++ b/gcc/tree.c
@@ -5635,12 +5635,10 @@ get_narrower (tree op, int *unsignedp_ptr)
 	{
 	  if (first)
 	    uns = DECL_UNSIGNED (TREE_OPERAND (op, 1));
-	  win = build3 (COMPONENT_REF, type, TREE_OPERAND (op, 0),
-			TREE_OPERAND (op, 1), NULL_TREE);
-	  TREE_SIDE_EFFECTS (win) = TREE_SIDE_EFFECTS (op);
-	  TREE_THIS_VOLATILE (win) = TREE_THIS_VOLATILE (op);
+	  win = fold_convert (type, op);
 	}
     }
+
   *unsignedp_ptr = uns;
   return win;
 }