saved register, but in arm EABI it may be either callee-saved or dedicated
to some special purpose (such as a TLS pointer). It appears clang does not
treat it as a callee-saved register (instead using it as another work
register, similar to r12).
Another important side effect of these changes is that saving an extra
register in the push/pop statements keeps the stack aligned to an 8-byte
boundary during the self_reloc() call, as it always should have been.
As stated in the PR...
Essentially the important caller-saved registers are pushed (r0, r1, r9, lr)
before the relocation call, and popped after. Then r8/r9 are saved as usual
for the syscall trampoline, and lr is stored in r8 (now free) as a
callee-saved value before calling into `main`.
The call to `main` can no longer be a tail call because we must restore r9
especially after main returns (although since we have used r8 to hold lr we
must also restore this).
PR: 224008
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