return-object-by-reference ("non trivial") xfail on arm64 in TestTrivialABI.py
I don't think this test case can be handled correctly on AAPCS64. The ABI says that the caller passes the address of the return object in x8. x8 is a caller-spilled (aka "volatile") register, and the function is not required to preserve x8 or to copy the address back into x8 on function exit like the SysV x86_64 ABI does with rax. (from aapcs64: "there is no requirement for the callee to preserve the value stored in x8") From my quick reading of ABISysV_arm64, I worry that it may actually be using the value in x8 at function exit, assuming it still has the address of the return object - if (is_return_value) { // We are assuming we are decoding this immediately after returning from // a function call and that the address of the structure is in x8 reg_info = reg_ctx->GetRegisterInfoByName("x8", 0); This will work on trivial test programs / examples, but if the function does another function call, or overwrites x8 as a scratch register, lldb will provide incorrect values to the user. ABIMacOSX_arm64 doesn't do this, but it also doesn't flag the value as unavailable so we're providing incorrect values to the user all the time. I expect my fix will be to make ABIMacOSX_arm64 flag the return value as unretrievable, unless I've misread the ABI.
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