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authornormalcoder <normalcoder@gmail.com>2021-12-19 00:12:08 +0300
committerBen Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org>2022-08-09 13:48:59 -0400
commit7c3b4193b07bea8e2f7820d731c74e4057c1f9ff (patch)
tree5e3d3efa8815560ba0a7167689f8ebe1ce988628
parent5765e13370634979eb6a0d9f67aa9afa797bee46 (diff)
downloadhaskell-wip/T21964.tar.gz
ncg/aarch64: Don't use x18 register on AArch64/Darwinwip/T21964
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.h8
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