[PATCH] D56305: [AArch64] Support reserving arbitrary general purpose registers
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Tue Feb 12 10:13:22 PST 2019
trong accepted this revision.
trong added inline comments.
This revision is now accepted and ready to land.
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Comment at: clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/Arch/AArch64.cpp:318
+ if (Args.hasArg(options::OPT_ffixed_x0))
+ Features.push_back("+reserve-x0");
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trong wrote:
> phosek wrote:
> > trong wrote:
> > > What happens (should happen) if we reserve x0 and compile a function with a return value?
> > Clang throws `error: AArch64 doesn't support function calls if any of the argument registers is reserved.` as for any other argument register.
> Yes, if x0 is reserved, it can't be used to pass arguments. But what happens if x0 is used to return a value? For example:
> ```
> int foo() {
> return 1;
> }
> ```
> It would be helpful if compiling `foo()` with x0 reserved threw an error.
OTOH, [[ https://godbolt.org/z/jWW09Y | gcc ]] doesn't complain, so maybe we're OK here.
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