diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index 8ba223fe60fc..a46fe6db2db8 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2011-05-16  Jason Merrill  <jason@redhat.com>
+
+	PR c++/48999
+	* tree-inline.c (copy_statement_list): Put back recursion.
+
 2011-05-16  Georg-Johann Lay  <avr@gjlay.de>
 
 	PR target/27663
diff --git a/gcc/tree-inline.c b/gcc/tree-inline.c
index fc8c88fea9b6..8ac3fed20dd8 100644
--- a/gcc/tree-inline.c
+++ b/gcc/tree-inline.c
@@ -662,6 +662,11 @@ copy_statement_list (tree *tp)
   for (; !tsi_end_p (oi); tsi_next (&oi))
     {
       tree stmt = tsi_stmt (oi);
+      if (TREE_CODE (stmt) == STATEMENT_LIST)
+	/* This copy is not redundant; tsi_link_after will smash this
+	   STATEMENT_LIST into the end of the one we're building, and we
+	   don't want to do that with the original.  */
+	copy_statement_list (&stmt);
       tsi_link_after (&ni, stmt, TSI_CONTINUE_LINKING);
     }
 }