In the 64-bit ELF V2 API Specification: Power Architecture, 2.3.3.1. GPR
Save and Restore Functions defines some special functions which may be
referenced by GCC produced assembly (LLVM does not reference them).
With GCC -Os, when the number of call-saved registers exceeds a certain
threshold, GCC generates _savegpr0_* _restgpr0_* calls and expects the
linker to define them. See
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2002-February/017444.html and
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2004-August/036765.html . This
is weird because libgcc.a would be the natural place. However, the linker
generation approach has the advantage that the linker can generate
multiple copies to avoid long branch thunks. We don't consider the
advantage significant enough to complicate our trunk implementation, so
we take a simple approach.
- Check whether _savegpr[01]_{14..31} and _restgpr[01]_{14..31} are used
- If yes, assemble the predefined .s and add the object file as LazyObjFile.
I should add .hidden as well.