Re: [llvm-dev] Handling of the x18 register in Wine on AArch64

[Anton Korobeynikov]

> > - Rebuild the surrounding host environment (the whole linux
> >
> > distribution) with -ffixed-x18. This would be the perfect solution,
> > but is highly impractical for general use of Wine by regular users in
> > their existing setups. (Convincing major distributions to start
> > configuring their compilers in this way also doesn't seem to be
> > happening.)
>
> Any chance that this could be made the compiler default, so that distros
> wouldn't need to do anything?

The register usage is specified by ABI. So, even if the compiler will
reserve x18, then there might be lots of legacy / hand-written code
around.