diff --git a/test/CodeGen/PowerPC/reg-coalesce-simple.ll b/test/CodeGen/PowerPC/reg-coalesce-simple.ll
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+; RUN: llvm-as < %s | llc -march=ppc32 &&
+; RUN: llvm-as < %s | llc -march=ppc32 | not grep or
+
+%struct.foo = type { int, int, [0 x ubyte] }
+int %test(%struct.foo* %X) {
+        %tmp1 = getelementptr %struct.foo* %X, int 0, uint 2, int 100
+        %tmp = load ubyte* %tmp1                ; <ubyte> [#uses=1]
+        %tmp2 = cast ubyte %tmp to int          ; <int> [#uses=1]
+        ret int %tmp2}
+
+
+