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+// Copyright 2018 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+// Checks if the correct registers are being used to pass arguments
+// when the sysv64 ABI is specified.
+
+// compile-flags: -Zepoch=2018
+
+pub trait Foo {}
+
+// should compile without the dyn trait feature flag
+fn foo(x: &dyn Foo) {}
+
+pub fn main() {}