I fixed the problem with the use_regs error. The TARGET_PASS_BY_REFERENCE macro was not changed from the default value. This macro is evaluated to determine if function parameters which are to be passed by value should instead be silently copied to the stack and then that copy be passed by reference. This is the problem I saw earlier, the structure was being passed by value, but there were not enough registers to hold the bytes of that value.

The default action of TARGET_PASS_BY_REFERENCE is to never silently pass by reference (which causes the problem seen here). I've overridden this to instead use pass-by-reference for data types larger than four bytes or for aggregate data types (structures).