Version 3.2.6

src/x64/codegen-x64.cc

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     // a test rax instruction here.
     __ nop();
   } else {
     // Inline the inobject property case.
     Comment cmnt(masm(), "[ Inlined named property load");
     Result receiver = frame()->Pop();
     receiver.ToRegister();
     result = allocator()->Allocate();
     ASSERT(result.is_valid());
 
-    // Cannot use r12 for receiver, because that changes
-    // the distance between a call and a fixup location,
-    // due to a special encoding of r12 as r/m in a ModR/M byte.
-    if (receiver.reg().is(r12)) {
-      frame()->Spill(receiver.reg());  // It will be overwritten with result.
-      // Swap receiver and value.
-      __ movq(result.reg(), receiver.reg());
-      Result temp = receiver;
-      receiver = result;
-      result = temp;
-    }
+    // r12 is now a reserved register, so it cannot be the receiver.
+    // If it was, the distance to the fixup location would not be constant.
+    ASSERT(!receiver.reg().is(r12));
 
     DeferredReferenceGetNamedValue* deferred =
         new DeferredReferenceGetNamedValue(result.reg(), receiver.reg(), name);
 
     // Check that the receiver is a heap object.
     __ JumpIfSmi(receiver.reg(), deferred->entry_label());
 
     __ bind(deferred->patch_site());
     // This is the map check instruction that will be patched (so we can't
     // use the double underscore macro that may insert instructions).
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 }
 
 #endif
 
 
 #undef __
 
 } }  // namespace v8::internal
 
 #endif  // V8_TARGET_ARCH_X64