diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/torture/pr117417.c b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/torture/pr117417.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2c80dd5d77c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/torture/pr117417.c
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+/* { dg-do compile } */
+
+typedef __attribute__((__vector_size__ (8))) double V;
+int bar (int a, V *p)
+{
+  V v;
+  v = *p;
+  a += *(_Complex short *) &v;
+  return a;
+}
+V x;
+int
+foo ()
+{
+  return bar (0, &x);
+}
diff --git a/gcc/tree-ssa-forwprop.cc b/gcc/tree-ssa-forwprop.cc
index cb1e86c6912..5c690a2b03e 100644
--- a/gcc/tree-ssa-forwprop.cc
+++ b/gcc/tree-ssa-forwprop.cc
@@ -3687,8 +3687,8 @@ pass_forwprop::execute (function *fun)
 	  else if (TREE_CODE (TREE_TYPE (lhs)) == COMPLEX_TYPE
 		   && gimple_assign_load_p (stmt)
 		   && !gimple_has_volatile_ops (stmt)
-		   && (TREE_CODE (gimple_assign_rhs1 (stmt))
-		       != TARGET_MEM_REF)
+		   && TREE_CODE (rhs) != TARGET_MEM_REF
+		   && TREE_CODE (rhs) != BIT_FIELD_REF
 		   && !stmt_can_throw_internal (fun, stmt))
 	    {
 	      /* Rewrite loads used only in real/imagpart extractions to