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| author | normalcoder <normalcoder@gmail.com> | 2021-12-19 00:12:08 +0300 |
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| committer | Marge Bot <ben+marge-bot@smart-cactus.org> | 2022-08-10 15:38:34 -0400 |
| commit | 67575f2004340564d6e52af055ed6fb43d3f9711 (patch) | |
| tree | 9fc8bb77c0a79c3181463680244ee5b9531b2718 | |
| parent | 7cabea7c9b10d2d15a4798be9f3130994393dd9c (diff) | |
| download | haskell-67575f2004340564d6e52af055ed6fb43d3f9711.tar.gz | |
ncg/aarch64: Don't use x18 register on AArch64/Darwin
Apple's ABI documentation [1] says: "The platforms reserve register x18.
Don’t use this register." While this wasn't problematic in previous
Darwin releases, macOS 13 appears to start zeroing this register
periodically. See #21964.
[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/writing-arm64-code-for-apple-platforms
| -rw-r--r-- | compiler/CodeGen.Platform.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/compiler/CodeGen.Platform.h b/compiler/CodeGen.Platform.h index 346dd0af03..a216d266dd 100644 --- a/compiler/CodeGen.Platform.h +++ b/compiler/CodeGen.Platform.h @@ -926,6 +926,14 @@ freeReg 29 = False -- ip0 -- used for spill offset computations freeReg 16 = False +#if defined(darwin_HOST_OS) || defined(ios_HOST_OS) +-- x18 is reserved by the platform on Darwin/iOS, and can not be used +-- More about ARM64 ABI that Apple platforms support: +-- https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/writing-arm64-code-for-apple-platforms +-- https://github.com/Siguza/ios-resources/blob/master/bits/arm64.md +freeReg 18 = False +#endif + # if defined(REG_Base) freeReg REG_Base = False # endif |