diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index 7798dd053d8..deaac82e1eb 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-06-13  Richard Guenther  <rguenther@suse.de>
+
+	PR middle-end/27536
+	* except.c (output_ttype): Expand type with EXPAND_INITIALIZER.
+
 2006-06-13  Richard Guenther  <rguenther@suse.de>
 
 	PR tree-optimization/27830
diff --git a/gcc/except.c b/gcc/except.c
index be563e496a4..6fb454e8543 100644
--- a/gcc/except.c
+++ b/gcc/except.c
@@ -3588,7 +3588,7 @@ output_ttype (tree type, int tt_format, int tt_format_size)
       struct cgraph_varpool_node *node;
 
       type = lookup_type_for_runtime (type);
-      value = expand_normal (type);
+      value = expand_expr (type, NULL_RTX, VOIDmode, EXPAND_INITIALIZER);
 
       /* Let cgraph know that the rtti decl is used.  Not all of the
 	 paths below go through assemble_integer, which would take